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63Recent Mortgage Rates Trends
Recent mortgage rates trends have defied all long-range predictions. Back in '07, when mortgage rates were sliding down towards 6%, all the pundits were saying that it couldn't last much longer. I mean we were talking mortgage rates lower than had been seen at any time since the oil price shocks to inflation in the early 1970s.
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68High Yield Investments
In low interest times, everyone's attention turns to high yield investments. When you have become accustomed to getting 6% or even 8% on your cash at call, a sudden drop to 4% is painful. It can be tempting to look farther afield than cash management accounts. Don't get me wrong - you should definitely diversify in any case. But avoid the temptation to swing a sizeable portion of your capital into corporate bonds, debentures, and securitization funds.
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68How Much Can I Borrow? Mortgage Calculation Made Easy
"How much can I borrow?" Mortgage payments are a huge part of our regular financial commitments, and most lenders have strict limits on measures such as the percentage of your income that you can spend making your mortgage repayments, the size of your downpayment, and the amount of other debt you are carrying.
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57FHA Loans For People With Bad Credit
FHA loans for people with bad credit are actually reasonably accessible. It's true that you need to meet some FHA loan requirements in order to qualify for an FHA loan, but those FHA loan requirements do not include having an unblemished credit record.
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62The HUD FHA Insurance Fund
The HUD FHA insurance fund was established during the Great Depression, when rates of foreclosure and default rose sharply. The purpose of the fund was to protect lower income Americans from being squeezed out of the home ownership market. These days, we need it more than ever!
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63Mortgage Rate Predictions
Mortgage rates predictions can't be trusted - at least, not completely - in this current uncertain economic environment. When life moved a slower pace, and when mortgages were less widespread, movements in mortgage rates predictions were much less significant than they are today.
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51Best New Personal Finance Blogs 2008
Whether it's mortgages, interest rates, foreclosures, and refinancing, or it's credit cards, debt consolidation and credit repair, financial issues impact every one of us in different ways throughout our lives. Schools don't teach this stuff, and it can be pretty difficult to pick it up as adults, too. Blogs can help to fill the gap, because a blog post is a neat, contained piece of information about one specific topic - sort of "bite-sized" financial education, as it were.
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78Mortgage Rates Predictions
Mortgage rates predictions are notoriously tricky, and at this particular point in time, trickier than usual. The financial world is still reeling from the subprime crisis, and the political pressure on...
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72Steps To Refinancing A Mortgage
The steps to refinancing a mortgage are simple, but skipping the first step can cause problems. The first, most important of the steps to refinancing a mortgage is to decide what your main objective is for doing the refinancing.
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63Top 9 Ways To Make Money From Blogging
If you can make money from blogging, it "takes the curse off" from spending the amount of time it takes to write the posts, social bookmark and backlink to them, and network with other bloggers on your topic. Even if there is no immediate result in terms of new contracts for your main business or profession, the fact that the blog itself is a profit center is a reason to press on.
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