How Much Down Payment Do I Need to Buy a Home? As kids, there are just some things we all learn while we’re growing up: Never drink soda after you eat Pop Rocks. Cracking your knuckles will give you arthritis. You’ll catch a cold if you go outside without a jacket. It takes a 20% down payment...

11/21/2014

The Missing Peace

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The Missing Peace There are a lot of things a mortgage loan officer cannot do. Trust me on this one. A team of government stormtroopers now stands ready to remind us via extortion-proportion fines when we’ve tripped over any of the byzantine regulations governing our industry. There also ...

11/16/2014

The Yang and Yin of Thin

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The Yang and Yin of Thin I guess I should start by saying that I grew up blue collar, where emphasis was put on playing an honest game, and not so much on showing up looking like you could. If, let’s just say, some fabulously flashy Franklin Square PBC little leaguer, replete of accoutremen...

11/15/2014