The KCM Blog

December 2009

The New Face of Short Sales: Part 2

December 14, 2009

The New Face of Short Sales: Part 1: Basic Short Sale Information Part 2: Homeowner’s Preparation before a Short Sale Part 3: After Receiving Your Short Sale Agreement (Tomorrow’s Post) The New Face of Short Sales: Part 2 By Phil Tesoriero Part of the servicer’s due diligence will be to determine “expected recovery through foreclosure [...]

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The New Face of Short Sales: Part 1

December 11, 2009

Dear KCM Community, Our next guest blogger, Phil Tesoriero, is a Short Sale expert.  He will be putting out his Short Sale trilogy, “The New Face of Short Sales”, that will take us through three separate parts of the new Short Sale process. The KCM Crew, along with its lead author, Steve Harney, believe that [...]

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Creating Wealth through Real Estate: Moving On Up

December 10, 2009

Over the last couple of days, we have talked about real estate as an investment, financing costs (interest rates) and gave you reasons to buy now instead of waiting. It is important that we realize that this does not apply solely to the first time home buyer. The opportunity that exists in real estate today is [...]

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Mortgage and Tax Credit News

December 9, 2009

Hello KCM Community! It is our pleasure to introduce to you veteran mortgage planner (and today’s guest blogger) Dean Hartman.  Yesterday we looked at interest rates and why buying now might be a good financial decision. Today, Dean will take us a few steps further and look at other reasons to move forward on the purchase [...]

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If You Don’t Buy a House Now, You’re Stupid or Broke

December 8, 2009

Ladies and Gentlemen, That is not MY headline but instead the headline of a BusinessWeek article today. It seemed appropriate to post this based on what we have been discussing this week. KCM Blog Posts Related to Info in Article: Share

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Interest Rates: Going Up or Down?

December 8, 2009

Yesterday, we talked about real estate as an investment. At the conclusion of that post, we talked about the difference between the ‘cost’ of the home compared to the ‘price’ of the home. We established that the cost of the home had two major components: the price and the expense of the financing. Unless you [...]

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