Archive for July, 2011

Getting to Closing!: Insider Information To Help You Get a Good Deal On Your Mortgage

Product Description“Getting To Closing” will give you the insider information you need to understand and navigate the residential real estate loan process. This book explains the details of the mortgage process, the loan application and disclosures, and even tells you how to save thousands of dollars on your mortgage once you have it. Cheryl Peck [...]

The Mortgage Payment Handbook: Monthly Payment Tables and Yearly Amortization Schedules for Fixed-Rate Loans

Product DescriptionThis handy guide enables you to determine monthly loan and mortgage payments at a glance. Its easy-to-read tables present payment schedules for loans with interest rates from 3% to 26% for terms ranging from one to forty years. Loans from $10,000 to $1,000,000 are covered. The Mortgage Payment Handbook also includes annual amortization schedules [...]

The Quick & Dirty Guide To FHA Mortgages

Product DescriptionWith more than 250,000 books in print, syndicated real estate columnist Peter G. Miller really knows the FHA program. This handy guide looks at the FHA mortgage program and appraisals, credit scores, successful loan applications, flipping,reverse mortgages, buy-and-repair financing, Title 1 loans, insurance premiums, refunds, streamline refinancing, down payments, “seller contributions” and much more.Product [...]

Place, Exclusion and Mortgage Markets

Product DescriptionUtilizing research from the U.S., Italy, and the Netherlands, Place, Exclusion and Mortgage Markets presents an in depth examination of the practice of redlining and the broader implications of contemporary urban exclusion processes.??Covers exclusion in mortgage markets in three different countries – the U.S., Italy, and the NetherlandsPresents an interdisciplinary perspective to the practice [...]

Foreclosed: High-Risk Lending, Deregulation, and the Undermining of America’s Mortgage Market, with a New Preface

Product DescriptionOver the last two years, the United States has observed, with some horror, the explosion and collapse of entire segments of the housing market, especially those driven by subprime and alternative or ‘exotic’ home mortgage lending. The unfortunately timely Foreclosed explains the rise of high-risk lending and why these newer types of loans-and their [...]

How to Sell a House When It’s Worth Less Than the Mortgage: Options for “Underwater” Homeowners and Investors

Product DescriptionDue to the wave of refinancing in recent years, and the fall in home values, in 2009 about 12 million homeowners and investors will be “underwater”–owing more than their property is worth. This book explains all the options for these homeowners who are trapped with houses they want to get free from, people whose [...]

Navigating the Mortgage Maze: The Simple Truth About Financing Your Home

Product DescriptionConfused or overwhelmed by the “mortgage maze”? Industry pro Dale Vermillion explains the simple truth. Learn about wise mortgage financing, and how to avoid common traps that cost you thousands of dollars! Chapters include: •  The Top 10 Mortgage Mistakes •  Simple Truth about Interest Rates and APR’s •  Mortgage Industry Dilemma •  The [...]