The National Association of Realtors has revised their home sales figures from the last four years.  They are now approximately 14% lower than first was reported.  This basically drops the housing numbers down by 2 million home sales.  In a down economy, the numbers paint a bleaker picture of what people were hoping was a recovery [...]

Amy Lutz of The College Conservative wrote this, and I just had to share!  Beautifully written! In 1897, a young girl named Virginia wrote a letter to The New York Sun, asking if Santa Claus did in fact exist. Newsman Francis Pharcellus Church responded with a now-famous editorial entitled “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa [...]

There is a new credit score looming on the horizon that tracks you a little more closely than the old credit scores.  CoreScore, as it’s called has been launched by CoreLogic to aid and assist mainly mortgage and home equity lenders to gain a better prospective into their potential borrowers.  While the CoreScore credit report [...]

Yahoo! Finance posted a few blunders to avoid for refinancing I thought might help someone.  Here they are: Not Comparing the Real Rate “Borrowers should shop around for a mortgage by comparing the APR (annual percentage rate) of each loan rather than the quoted interest rate,” says Gregg Busch, vice president of First Savings Mortgage [...]