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Michigan First Time Home Buyer: An Overall Guide
Michigan First Time Home Buyer: An Overall Guide For a first time buyer, there is so much to worry about and so many levels of details to address, that I just want to provide a good general guide to … more →
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Michigan First Time Home Buyer: An Overall Guide
Matt Watts wrote 6 months ago: Michigan First Time Home Buyer: An Overall Guide For a first time buyer, there is so much to worry … more →
First Time Home Buyer: Conforming at a glance
Matt Watts wrote 6 months ago: First Time Home Buyer: Conforming at a glance The following was a general overview of the Conformi … more →
First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit as Down Payment or: Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Matt Watts wrote 6 months ago: First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit as Down Payment or: Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap I think this is an … more →
Michigan Real Estate Purchase: Lending Update
Matt Watts wrote 6 months ago: So, regardless all of the jibber-jabber out of Washington lending is continuing to tighten. I figure … more →
(First Time) Home Buyer’s Frequently Asked Questions
Matt Watts wrote 6 months ago: I will be adding to this list as I go along, but I wanted to start a nice comprehensive FAQ for home … more →
First Time Home Buyer: How to Demand Transparency from your Loan Officer
Matt Watts wrote 7 months ago: There are so many ways for a loan officer to fool you and I have heard them all in my time in the bu … more →
Rural Development Mortgage Guidelines Allow For 100% Financing Loans
jaimehunt wrote 8 months ago: Few people are aware that Rural Development Mortgages provide government guaranteed financing for 10 … more →
Rural Development Loans Still Readily Available.
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Matt Watts wrote 10 months ago: Hello all, I, and pretty much all of our people at Icon have had many Realtors calling us over the p … more →
Michigan Mortgage: BORROWERS BILL OF RIGHTS
Matt Watts wrote 12 months ago: “BORROWERS BILL OF RIGHTS” 1. You have the RIGHT to shop for the best loan for you and compare the … more →
Michigan Real Estate Purchase: Choosing a Loan Officer
Matt Watts wrote 1 year ago: Proceed with Caution: The weirdest part of talking to people about their loan experiences is that pe … more →
Michigan Real Estate Purchase: Escrow Account
Matt Watts wrote 1 year ago: What is it? An escrow account is basically a mandatory savings account to pay your taxes and insuran … more →
Michigan Real Estate Purchase: Pro-Rated Taxes.
Matt Watts wrote 1 year ago: Pro-Rated Taxes: Oh, the agony! Nothing causes headaches the way pro-rated taxes do. What exactly ar … more →
Michigan Mortgages: Hope for Homeowners? This time it just may be true.
Matt Watts wrote 1 year ago: Call me a softy and a nerd. It’s hard to believe, but yes I was one of the few that sat and watched … more →
Michigan Real Estate Purchase: Assembling Your Purchase Team
Matt Watts wrote 1 year ago: If you are going to buy a home in Michigan, especially in this foreclosure driven market, nothing is … more →
Michigan Real Estate Purchase: Credit, or Reaching for Perfection
Matt Watts wrote 1 year ago: I know, seems so simple. Pay your bills on time, don’t claim bankruptcy, but there is a lot more to … more →
Michigan Foreclosure Purchase: What can the selling banks do or not do?
Matt Watts wrote 1 year ago: I have close a lot of foreclosure purchases over the last two years and have ran into some very odd … more →
Michigan Real Estate Purchase: Credit Scores and What to Think about Your Score
Matt Watts wrote 1 year ago: I know it is hard to understand exactly what your credit score is, how it is calculated, and especia … more →
Michigan Real Estate Purchase: The Deadly Repair Escrow
Matt Watts wrote 1 year ago: Bum Bum Buummm. Enter scary music and cold sweats, you just fell in love with a home that has a bro … more →
Michigan Real Estate Purchase: Mortgage Insurance and WTF is this PMI?
Matt Watts wrote 1 year ago: We all hate it…but few of us know what it is. First, the insurance I am talking about is different t … more →
