(This was originally published September 29,2005) Here’s another advertisement that I got in the mail: “Pick a Pay, Any Pay!’ The Revolutionary Option ARM!” “Start rates as low as 1%!” Loan amount $100,000 Payment $321.64$200,000 $643.28$300,000 $964.92$400,000 $1286.56Could this help save you money? Let’s see, given the real rate on these, there is negative amortization …
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You see it all the time at open houses and elsewhere. People who desperately need buyer’s agents, but think of Buyer’s Agents in the same way they think of automobile sales folk, and that’s the complete opposite of the way it is. They don’t want to deal with an agent, because an agent will use …
Racial Gap in Loans Is High in California. I can give a variety of reasons for this. First off, especially in Los Angeles but to a lesser extent throughout the state, there is a huge “Spanish speaking only” community. When you limit yourself to speakers of a language which isn’t the nation’s primary business tongue, …
