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The goal of my blog is to give you real world mortgage solutions to actual mortgage scenarios I see everyday.
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Trended Data Credit Reports ExplainedAs we like to say “Everyone is a number, so you might as well have a good one”.  Lenders have based decisions to approve or deny on your credit score number.  Even employment and insurance rates can be based on your credit score!  Now with Trended Data, a pers...
06/03/2016
The Sanford Herald Announced the Best Mortgage Loan Company to be Team Move OVM Financial!Best Mortgage Loan Company is such a wonderful award and we are so happy that the people of Lee County have chosen us.  We have had opportunities to work in larger and more populated cities where there are l...
06/03/2016
The May Jobs Report showed that there were just 38,000 new workers hired, well below the 155,000 expected. It was the lowest number since September 2010 when it was a negative 52,000. The Unemployment Rate fell to 4.7 percent, but it does not cover those Americans who are not actively looking for...
06/03/2016
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday that Non-farm Payrolls rose by 215,000 in March, above the 200,000 expected, though down from the 245,000 created in February. Within the report it showed that the Unemployment Rate edged higher to 5 percent from 4.9 percent.The positive report si...
04/01/2016
The Labor Department reported that there were 242,000 jobs created in February, above the 190,000 expected. Plus, December and January were revised higher by a total of 30,000. The Labor Force Participation Rate ticked up to 62.9 percent, the highest since January 2015, while the Unemployment Rat...
03/06/2016
Experienced & Licensed Mortgage Loan Officers can build their business with Team Move!So many lenders are looking for experienced mortgage loan officers and we are too.  But we are offering loan officers and teams who are masters of their craft, a higher level of extra personal attention, support...
02/21/2016
The Commerce Department reported on Wednesday that December New Home Sales surged 10.8 percent from November to an annual rate of 544,000 units, above the 506,000 expected. It was the third consecutive monthly gain and the third best annual gain since 2008. Sales rose 14.5 percent in 2015 to 501,...
01/28/2016
The S&P/Case Shiller 20-city Home Price Index rose 5.8 percent year-over-year due to continued low mortgage rates, tight supplies and an improving labor market. On a monthly basis, prices were up 0.9 percent from October, the fastest monthly gain since March. In addition, 14 cities put up better ...
01/26/2016
December Existing Home Sales Surge!The National Association of REALTORS® reported on Friday that December Existing Home Sales surged nearly 15 percent from November to an annual rate of 5.46 million units. This was well above the 5.12 million expected. The big gains could be due to delayed closin...
01/22/2016
Why did so many buyers move to North Carolina in 2015?North Carolina consistently ranks very high in the annual United Van Lines Movers Study and in this article we share the reasons why so many buyers moved to NC in 2015.Guess what?  The population continues to move away from the cold of the nor...
01/13/2016
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The goal of my blog is to give you real world mortgage solutions to actual mortgage scenarios I see everyday.