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Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI) lowers the risk to the lender, should you defaulton your mortgage payments. Please note that PMI...


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Tags: First Time Home Buyers, Refinance, Home Buyer,

A refinance replaces your current loan with a new loan; that new loan pays off the debt of the old loan. So, you are trading your...


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Tags: Refinance, refi, loan types,

Is Refinancing Only For The Established?

Refinance, that word sounds like it only belongs in stodgy, dark rooms filled with...


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Feeling totally crushed under your mortgage payments is for the birds.


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Tags: Mortgage, Refinance, PMI,

By Morgan Saylor On September 13, 2016

Refi or No Refi?

If you haven’t heard it on the radio or read about it in the news, maybe your mortgage banker has already reached out to you...


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Tags: Home, Refinance, interest rate,

By Morgan Saylor On August 5, 2016

Appraisal Process

So you’ve ordered an appraisal on a property, or perhaps you’re having your property appraised for a refinance or before you put...


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Tags: Home, Refinance, Appraisal,