Are your student loans squelching your dreams of home ownership? Do you wonder if you’ll ever be able to stop renting and have a place you can truly call yours? Or maybe you own a small house but your family needs a larger one. How Student Loans Affect Qualifying for a Mortgage A student loan…
Real Estate Lending and the Internet
I have been in the real estate lending area for 50 years. During that time I have had the pleasure of working with thousands of home owners and buyers to minimize their cost of home ownership. In the last decade it has become apparent that a lot of borrowers are using the internet to get…
Myth, Paranoia, and Economics in the Business of Real Estate Lending
How many times have you heard a mortgage lender say, “I have the perfect loan for you”? The fact is that until the day you pay your loan off you cannot know what the perfect loan was. A true real estate loan professional will help you understand all of the loan options. That you might…
What do you do?
I often get asked the question, what do you do? Usually my reply is simply “I make real estate loans”. Recently, after reflecting on that answer, it became apparent that we do a lot more than just make real estate loans. We help people with construction loans to build their dream home. We help people…
The Jumbo Loan and Mid America Mortgage Services
If you are buying or building a high end home you may be faced with searching for a jumbo loan. That is a loan ever $417,000. Many lenders don’t do jumbo loans. Most have additional costs. Mid America Mortgage Services is extremely competitive in the jumbo market and we should be one of the places…