Lynn Tardibuono's (sunpacific) Blog

  OPEN HOUSE this Sunday, April 15th from 1-4pm on 2705   Patio Court Santa Rosa.  This is a sweet Montgomery Village   home only better!  Updated new kitchen, beautiful wood floors,   custom paint inside and out.  Charm galore with big kitchen,   bay windows and big fireplace in living room, con...

New Updates on the FHA Loan   What You Need to Know       Anyone buying a home today is well aware of how difficult it is to obtain a loan. It may very well be the most difficult aspect of purchasing a home - getting the funding to do so. Sadly, according to an article provided by CNN Money, FHA ...

  Appraisals The Inside Scoop Appraisals are an undeniably large part of home purchase transactions. If you’re selling a home your Agent and/or Lender will probably insist that you get an appraisal. An appraisal by definition is just “an opinion of the value of your home based on what similar hom...

Rising Rent Why it makes more sense to buy! Turns out California isn’t the only expensive place to live. Rent is rising all over the country and it only makes the argument to buy more coherent. Why wait to buy when the price of living as a renter is only going to keep rising? According to Jed Kol...

Our Changing Market Four Tips to Help Seal the Deal If I’ve said it once I’ve said it a hundred times – we are living in a time of change and boy is the market changing! Just when you think you know the market something changes on a micro level throwing off everything you thought you knew. So how...

The Mortgage Calculator My Favorite Tool to Suggest to Clients.. With all the changes happening in the market it’s no wonder that many are hesitant to buy. However all the evidence is pointing to Buy! Prices will never be lower, interest rates will never be more affordable and the competition is ...

What's On the Scoreboard for the Housing Market? Newest Update All of us in the Real Estate/Mortgage Business have been anxious to see if this will be the year things will start looking up. Recently there has been great news left and right – prices are down, interest rates are down, competition i...

LENDER’S VIEWPOINT By Broker, Forest Tardibuono New and Improved Hard Money     Realtors take note... I recently saw a Wall Street Journal article Explaining the Methods of Hard-Money Lenders (written July 21, 2011).  It begins with "As banks continue tightening their purse strings..." which is t...

"Good-to-Know"  Facts About the FHA Loan   Spring is here and the market is soaring upward. Prices are affordable, interest rates are rock bottom and competition for real estate is high. However, many buyer’s main concern is getting a loan. Banks and other lending institutions are not making it e...

Hard Money Loans Why They're So Great Being co owner of a comany that gives out hard money I have a tendency to talk up hard money loans. However, once in a while it’s good to go back to the fundamentals of this loan. Why is this particular loan sometimes better? Who would benefit from this loan?...