Harvey Collier's (hcollier) Blog

Recently, I've experienced an alarming number of home buyers looking to be preapproved for their Fort Lauderdale mortgage. What's strange about that you may ask? A growing percentage of these requests are coming from buyers that already own a home they can't sell because they're way under water o...

  New FHA Mortgage Changes  Give Home Buyers More Reasons to Purchase Now   Impending changes to to help recapitalize FHA Mortgage reserves will make it more difficult to qualify. These FHA Mortgage changes will further restrict home buyers from obtaining low down payment financing. The final rul...

The Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Snake Pit has poisoned many real estate deals since lending guidelines tightened significantly. Fort Lauderdale mortgage preapprovals are being relied on by sellers of foreclosed and short-sale properties competing against cash offers. All things being near equal, wh...