chrisgriffith on September 11th, 2010

Weekend mortgage rates for buyers of Bonita Springs, Florida real estate.

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chrisgriffith on February 3rd, 2010

Pros and Cons of a Bi-Weekly Mortgage Program When a borrower enters into a contract to make bi-weekly payments on their mortgage, the amortization schedule is accelerated. For example, with a 30-year amortization schedule, the borrower makes 12 payments per year. In a bi-weekly arrangement, the borrower makes 26 ‘half’ payments, which allows the loan [...]

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chrisgriffith on January 7th, 2010

Know Your Credit Score In the past, it wasn’t out of the question to obtain a mortgage with a FICO score in the low 500 range. In fact, if you were willing to accept the payment, you could even do so with little money down. Today, however, if you have a low FICO score, you [...]

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chrisgriffith on October 26th, 2009

The Haunted Halloween Mortgage Rates Report The 4% rates have come back to haunt us this week. Or is that taunt us? For almost one week, the rates were in the 5% range. However, with a last minute inter-day rate change, an eerie ghost appeared on my rate sheet. I quickly snapped this photo of [...]

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chrisgriffith on October 19th, 2009

There’s no place like 4%, There’s no place like 4% It appears as though potential home owners had their house land on the higher rates of 5% and reward them with some red ruby slippers to wish rates back down into the 4% range. But you better hurry and take advantage of the minor dip [...]

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chrisgriffith on August 31st, 2009

I am changing the format of this up a little bit to make it work with our site’s that we post for, so please work with us as we try this this out.   Mortgage rates have been holding steady for the past couple weeks.  Mortgage applications have increased.  Is this a sign that the [...]

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chrisgriffith on July 20th, 2009

Florida Mortgage Rates It looks like rates have pretty much held steady this past week. But how much longer will it hold out? Product Rate Discount APR Monthly Payment Conforming Fixed 30 Year 5.125% 0.00% 5.278% $816.73   Conforming Fixed 20 Year 5.250% 0.00% 5.458% $1,010.77 Conforming Fixed 15 Year 4.625% 0.00% 4.883% $1,157.10   [...]

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chrisgriffith on June 15th, 2009

What good is a pre-qualification or pre-approval if you’re not going to listen? When a buyer wants to buy a home, the Real estate agent they are dealing with usually asks right off the bat: “Have you been pre-qualified or pre-approved for a mortgage?”  Why is this such an important questions?  There are several things [...]

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chrisgriffith on January 7th, 2009

How Compound Interest Works First time home buyers, if you don’t see the video below, click here:  Compound Interest.

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chrisgriffith on December 22nd, 2008

Lowest Rates in 37 Years I’m going to make this morning’s update a quick one- Everyone seems to be taking it easy now that the Holidays are upon us.  Hey – everyone needs a little break every now and then! But keep a few things in mind…… * We still have a very strong Buyer’s [...]

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