Alternatives to mortgage insurance
Low interest rates in recent years cheered consumers, but they hurt at Genworth Mortgage Insurance, a Raleigh-based company that sells private mortgage insurance to home buyers.
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'Feeling awkward about the differences in net worth' -- NOT. Yesterday's Times style section had an article about how economic differences can shoulder between friends, subtly alienating them with envy, guilt, pride, and just plain divergent possibilities .read more...
Realtors' Commission Fees Are Under Assault "Realtors embrace the idea of some automation and some use of the Internet. But the minute it cuts into their pocketbooks, well, all hell broke loose." Even with today's
Some mortgage exit fees 'illegal' (BBC News) Fees charged by mortgage lenders when customers pay back their loan are potentially illegal and a scandal, say industry insiders.read more...
Mayor ponders port-a-potty policy If Johnny Horton has his way, portable toilets will dot the unlandscaped lot of every new start-up home.via
Here comes the 35-year mortgage (Daily Telegraph) Lenders are increasingly seeing demand from young people looking to extend the term of their mortgage from the traditional 25 years to as long as 30 or 35 years in
Love & Money: In Our Move, We Failed the School Test After relocating to Louisiana from New Jersey a year ago Jeff Opdyke and his wife find themselves wondering if they gave their son's educational future short shrift. The answers are