The Real Estate Connection

Thank you to those who have served this country. Whether you are currently deployed or a retired veteran, one of the amazing benefits of your service is your eligibility for a VA loan available in California Why is a California VA mortgage the best program ever? Here are my reasons... 1. No down ...

Thank you to those who have served this country. Whether you are currently deployed or a retired veteran, one of the amazing benefits of your service is your eligibility for a VA Mortgage. What is a VA Loan?Some wonder how a VA loan works when they see the commercials on TV from various VA lender...

Hello Active Rain friends....I recently posted about an update to the 12 yr old well established and highly ranked Dream Home Financing website. One of the features that I wanted to add which did not exist in the older platform was the ability to add articles or blog posts from others including r...

Is your company looking for more buyers?Is your company statewide or in multiple states?We are looking for real estate agency partners in every state. We have buyers coming to us for lending options for purchases and many of them are not currently working with a realtor. Our questionaire that bor...

If you are interested in a HARP mortgage you should know that your time is running out. The program will no longer be available after December 31, 2018. It will be replaced with two new programs that will not be as attractive as this one. I will outline what those two new programs are in a future...

As a mortgage professional, I am getting daily requests for bad credit mortgages. The reality is that there are more people which bad credit than there are people with good credit.What is bad credit? From a lending perspective it is anything below a score of 620. If your score is less than 620, y...

One of the biggest obstacles buyers have is they cannot get financing because their credit scores are too low. We also hear stories about how auto insurance companies also factor in your credit score when coming up with your rate/premium. The process on how to improve your credit score is one tha...

Active Rain friends...To the realtors here and anyone who is real estate relevant... we have mutual interests in improving our search engine and consumer visibility on the internet. Google is constantly changing their algorythms and there is no point trying to figure it out. What will never chang...

There are many reverse mortgage benefits that get overlooked today. First, there is the old reverse mortgage fear that somehow you get a reverse mortgage and then soon after you lose your home. That could not be farther from the truth. If anything, it actually solidifies your situation with your ...

Every homeowner will at some point need to know how to patch a hole in drywall.  This is an essential life skill because you do not want to have to hire someone to do a job that you can easily do  yourself. In the instructional video below, I will take you through the process of how to patch a la...