Bellevue / Seattle Real Estate Mortgage Rate Watch 1/12/2011
Eastside Real Estate Mortgage Rate Watch: "A" grading for 10 year note auction today at 10:00 rallies the mortgage market and is improving rates. Treasury Auctions are Key to mortgage rates.
Continue ReadingLeave a CommentSelling My House and the Buyer is Asking Me to Pay Closing Costs
Seller Question: I am selling my house and the Buyer asked me to pay their closing costs - is this common? or legal?
Continue ReadingLeave a CommentEastside Real Estate Mortgage Rate Watch 1/10/2011
Will Interest Rates Go Back DOWN? With an Improving Economy, Optimistic Outlook for 2011 and a strong stock market, Mortgage Rates will have an uphill battle to improve from here. Let's break this down: For housing as the economy gets better, consumer confidence returns, job market improves, people
Continue ReadingLeave a CommentBellevue / Seattle Real Estate Mortgage Rate Watch 1/6/2011
Thank you to Jordan and the Eastside Bubble to provide information to the viewer for Homeownership Financing! Bellevue / Seattle Real Estate Mortgage Rate Watch: JOBS, JOBS, JOBS, the theme of the week. ADP report yesterday SURPRISED the market. Today the Initial Jobless Claims Disappointed the m
Continue ReadingLeave a CommentParking Space Assessments Are Evil
Separating your parking space assessment from your condo assessment is a tool the assessor uses to confuse homeowners and trick you into not appealing your assessment.
Continue ReadingLeave a CommentShort Sale Seller Advisory from Department of Financial Institutions
The Short Sale Seller Advisory was published by the Department of Financial Institutions and the WA Department of licensing. The original .PDF file is available at http://www.warealtor.org/assets/short-sale-seller-consumer-advisory.pdf.
Continue ReadingView Comments (1)Washington State Transportation Commission Announces Proposed SR 520 Toll Rates
Washington State Transportation Commission announces proposed SR 520 Toll Rates The Washington State Transportation Commission, a governor appointed citizens committee charged with setting toll rates, has released proposed toll rates for the SR 520 floating bridge (more...)
Continue ReadingLeave a CommentBellevue Loan Officer Sentenced to 7 Years for Mortgage Fraud
Bellevue loan officer Christopher Brooks, whose own attorney said he could be a "poster child" for the nation's mortgage mess, was sentenced Friday to seven years in federal prison and ordered to pay nearly $2.5 million in restitution for running what prosecutors say was one of the largest home-mortgage-fraud cases brought so far in Western Washington. Read Full Seattle Times Article
Continue ReadingLeave a CommentEconomic Stimulus Projects in Washington
Below is a link to the "shovel-ready" projects the mayors of Washington State submitted in the 2008 U.S. Conference of Mayors report. You can click on a project to read (and add to) its description. You can also discuss the project and vote on whether you believe it is critical or not. For a more local view, you can drill down to projects in a particular city. Link to Washington Stimulus Watch. The total of cost of all the projects submitted by Washington is $1,713,748,676
Continue ReadingLeave a CommentEvergreen Virtual Advisor – Investment Newsletter by David Hay
Past EVAs have noted that the trailing 10-year return on the stock market now trails that of the 1930 to 1939 period. As you can see from the chart below, the last decade is now essentially tied with the fourth worst 10-year period going all the way back to the 1830s.
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