Art's Mortgage Solutions Blog

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My wife and I have been married for 22 years, we were together for 2 years before that.  In those 24 Thanksgivings plus a few Christmas's and Easters we have had a lot of turkey!  A LOT OF TURKEY.  While my wife does the majority of the cooking at home; she has never cooked a holiday turkey.  Tha...

With all the events and family and feasts and fun associated with the holidays, is it worth it to work and try to make sales in December?  Or is it better to regroup and plan for the 2010 year? First, let me say that my largest closing month ever was a December!!!!! Year end considerations can so...

Reflecting on Thanksgiving A lady was picking through the frozen turkeys at the grocery store, but couldn't find one big enough for her family. She asked the stock boy, 'Do these turkeys get any bigger?' The stock boy answered, 'No ma'am, they're dead.' Big Turkeys and Little TurkeysIf a big turk...

  It is getting more and more common that my company is asked to save a real estate transaction at the 11th hour.  I got three calls in the last two days from listing agents that have had their sales put in jeopardy by pure incompetence from the lender handling the transaction for the buyer.  Two...

State of Oregon 6A football playoffs As those of you who read my blog know, I am a huge football fan.  I love it on every level!  I will watch peewee football, middle school football, high school football, or NFL football.  Heck, I am such a football nut that I will even sit down and watch a CFL ...

Yesterday I faced a common dilemma for business; was it better to give my services away and have my customer leave the transaction happy or make a profit and risk a potential failed sale? Let me first explain the circumstances. I had received a loan application from a couple about 6 weeks ago for...

Where are we headed from here?   This real estate market continues to confuse and perplex.  One day I am so busy that I do not have time to eat lunch.  The next, nobody calls, and my outgoing marketing efforts meet with deaf ears.  One day I am encouraged by a drop in rates that should create ref...

Every once in a while you have to hit a curve ball.  Last month my father-in-law, who is 81, had triple bypass surgery.  After the operation we moved him into a facility in Lynnwood, Washington call Manor Care.  The correct name should be "Manor Could Care Less", but that is a different story.  L...