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Mortgage 2.X
3 Questions to Ask Any Mortgage Professional
Digital Rolodex and Database Marketing
'Pointed' The Wrong Way
Fixed Fees for a Broken Business
How To Speculate on The Future of Mortgage Rates
Short Selling The Market
Pre-Payment Penalty Ponderings
Swindlers List
Mortgage Rate Pricing, The Disturbing Truth
Effect Of Transparency on The Mortgage and Real Estate Industries
Yield Spread Premiums. Definition, Disclosure and Depth
Yield Spread Premiums. Capital Hill Testimony
Crooked Mortgage Broker Tells All
Consumer Beware of Mortgage Salesmanship
The Traditional Real Estate Commission Model. A Critical Assessment
Critical Assessment of The Traditional Real Estate Commission Model II
Mortgage Pin Nears Housing Bubble
Its Not Just Sub-Prime...
The Need for Transparent Mortgage Rate Search
APR. The Annual Percentage Runaround
Traditional Real Estate Commission Structure, The $30,000,000,000 Problem.
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How To Run A Mortgage Business Going Forward
The Ubiquitous, Perpetual Mortgage Solution Circle Jerk
How To Use The Proper Corporation To Minimize Your Tax Liability As a Real Estate Professional
Backslapping Mortgage Bailout, Fannie and Freddie Get a $200B Blank Check
The Economic Realities of Transparency for The Mortgage Brood
5 Tips For The Brave Soul Considering Real Estate Sales As a Career
What’s My Mortgage Rate And How Much Is It Going To Cost Me?
Risk Based Pricing. How Mortgage Rates are Determined
Risk Based Pricing. How Mortgage Rates are Determined- Property Type and Property Use
Risk Based Pricing How Mortgage Rates are Determined- Credit Scores and History
Risk Based Pricing How Mortgage Rates are Determined- Loan Amount and Loan to Value
Mortgage Industry Shock and Awe
Political Fear and Loathing on Wall Street
Pending Death and Future Living. Transparency, Technology, Social Media, Business Strategy, With Some Economics Sprinkled On Top
Contrived Attrition? Washingtons Play in The Fall and Rise of Wall Street
Survey Says...Realtors Suck!
Defining a Brand Through Business Strategyt
Drug Cartels, Cancerous Growth and The F*cked Mortgage Industry
Jeff - Love your blog. Would like to add you to my Google Reader but your feedburner link appears to be a dead link? Or is it me?
Other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?
I don't know how or when, but pulling the trigger might be the solution.
Thanks.
Good one, although I do not see the regime pulling the plug on the artists formerly known as Fannie Freddie and rolling them into HUD.
You know the guy who shoots a deer, in the middle of the night, without a license, out of season, with a million candle watt search light they use out to sea? That whiner with the hunting ticket is not going to be much fun, will make the loudest character and department slams…be less than light and bright with comments, doing surveys about game wardens. Anyone down at the fish and game beehive if any one will listen. Often the loudest whiner seller shot himself in the foot by over pricing, not listening to the broker, agent, guy or gal wearing the “R”. Forgetting the full throttle marketing, or unreasonable seller contingencies that did not make the place sell. So every broker who takes turn planting signs in the lawn is a dark heart pirate, needing to search for, scrub their soul in Mr Crabtree's eyes. Steer a wide berth around those no wins, bags of gas. And buyers not able to buy for credit nightmares, other personal baggage but somehow Joe and Jane Broker screwed up with getting them a bank loan on the place they wanted. Hear the full story, take surveys with a grain of sale. Every market is so different too.
Jeff, I check your site every so often and I can say, your articles are extremely thorough and always well written. When are you unleashing strategies #2 and #3? Looking forward to it.
There are many truths spoken in this very witty article. I really enjoyed reading it, and I agree that our current real estate system will simply have to flush itself…likely with the help of products like HomePath. Great post!
Good, sane summation of what's going on. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Brad
I've got Part II in draft…need to clean it up and get it out this week, its been sitting in there for awhile…
Great post.
I can relate to this as JP Chase will not for some reason apply a payment that I sent to them over 7 months ago. I have had several buyers. But they have backed out because of this. Noone wants to buy a piece of property that they have no idea as to whether or not they will ever get the title of deed for.
Thanks Christina…so you work for BofA? Care to share any insight from the inside?
Finally a well-written, objective description of what this foreclosure moratorium is all about! What I'm interested to see is if this foreclosure freeze will tip the scales on retail sales and maybe bump up some average home prices??
Hi Jeff - Thanks for visiting Mortgagematch.com and taking a look at the site. We'd love to give you a one-on-one tour, which should bring clarity to a few misconceptions that may be helpful. Move, Inc's Senior Vice President of Mortgage, Sue Stewart, is available when you're ready.
Until then, Johnathan Miller did a podcast with Sue Stewart and Steve Berkowitz, Move's cheif executive officer, for TheHousinghelix.com that sheds light into how and why the site was developed to help buyers as they work with Realtors to purchase homes.
Great site, looking forward to reading and getting involved with the community.
This was bound to happen soon or later given Move's other properties. I didn't see any MLS integration though, where does that come into play?
“Real Estate Professionals Need a Better Compensation Model”
absolutely agree - before they do any more transactions with clients they have to have better compensation model
This can be like asking Bill O'Reilly to moderate “The View,” but salespeople move the goods and you better have your degree in “Insane-ology” to deal with …
I should have sold it when it broke $20, but my broker told me to hold the stock. Then I should have bought 400 more shares on my broker's advice in late 2009, when it got down to $6, but I panicked. Now it's trading at $17. Please tell me your opinion …
I'm being serious here not partisan. I don't give a cr6p about D's and R's ….. collective responsibility, they're not opposite sides of the same coin.
site looks pretty complicated.
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There doesn't seem to be any penalty. In fact if a “property details” page on your website doesn't have a lot of non-property duplicate content (which Zillow, etc… often seem to have) then it can rank higher then theirs. It helps if your domain is aged. New domains seem to get a lot less benefit from the dsIDXpress plugin, for example. I don't know how long this will last however. The big “authority” domains are just running up their SEO advantages. We are shifting a lot of our focus to innovative positioning, programs, and content - and social media strategies. At some point everyone has access to tons of information, and what is left is to hire someone they like and trust - the friendly, local expert.
Understood…. But Sad.
Jeff, you're a hell of a man and I'm honored to call you a friend. You're also a hell of a writer and have taught me more than you'll ever know.
We'll catch you on the flip side. Peace.