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2011
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This is my Flyer post for for the "ActiveRain/Kodak Contest: What Makes a Good Sign and Flyer?" Those that have followed my blog for a while know that Open Houses are a part of my week. Here in Connecticut Sunday's are the traditional day for Open Houses. I will normally stop at three Open Hous...
04/29/2011
I just noticed that the "ActiveRain/Kodak Contest: What Makes a Good Sign and Flyer?" is over today. For some reason I thought I had more time. At McCue Mortgage we do not have lawn signs but we do much bigger signs, billboards. We strategically located our billboards in high traffic areas ...
04/29/2011
I subscribe to on online publication called MRportDaily, and one of it's lead stories yesterday was that Freddie Mac is seeing its monthly mortgage portfolio shrink. Now REALLY!!!, REALLY!!! who would ever have expected that? The real news would have been that they had made gains in their portfo...
04/28/2011
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I drove through Ringo, GA one of the town that was hit hard by one of these Tornado's for many years. As I commented on Kerrie's blog it was hard to look at the destruction that was done to it. We need to be praying for these people and hope that they are able to receive the financial assistanc...
04/28/2011
Because Credit Scores are playing such a major part in Loan Programs these day, both in qualifying and Closing Costs, I will wrap up this little mini series of blogs on Credit by just highlighting The Three Components That Have The Biggest Impact On Your Credit Score. These three components are C...
04/26/2011
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It is not unusual to find creditors reporting items incorrectly on a Credit Report, and that is not the kind of SURPRISE that anyone wants to get. When I am reviewing a Credit Report with one of my Borrowers and one of these SURPRISES pop up, I simply instruct them to contact the Credit Reporting...
04/25/2011
Part of the Mortgage Pre-Approval Process that I do is to pull the Borrower’s Credit. In doing that it is not unusual for things to show up that the Borrower needs to take care of in order for me to Pre-Approve them for a mortgage. The two things that tend to show up the most are Judgments and Co...
04/22/2011
Recent reports from the Inspector General are indicating that as many as 47,000 fillings to the IRS for the First Time Homebuyer Tax Credit may have been fraudulent. If correct this would represent approximately $513,000,000 of taxpayer money that was awarded to Homebuyers that did not really qu...
04/18/2011
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Well as promised here is our new contest at McCue Mortgage which everyone can enter in to Win a iPad2. It is real easy to enter all you have to do is go to the McCue Mortgage Facebook webpage and click on the "Like" button at the top, the follow the arrow down to "Enter Now". You will then be ...
04/15/2011
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If you have been in sales for any length of time I am sure that all of you have seen the title "Key To Success" or one very similar to it many times. I don't profess to know the "Key To Success", but I have been in sales long enough to know if you are unable to do two things, then it is very unl...
04/12/2011
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