1. What To Do If You Have An Orphaned Mortgage

    What To Do If You Have An Orphaned Mortgage

    What happens when your parents pass away when you are a young child? You become an orphan. What happens when your loan officer leaves the mortgage More

  2. Jar of Real Estate for Sale

    Jar of Real Estate for Sale

    Seen on the “Weird eBay Listings” site: “Jar of Real Estate” for sale from Powhatan County, VA. A bid has already been made for $19.95. Description: More

  3. Mortgage Rates Rise on Zillow Mortgage Marketplace

    Mortgage Rates Rise on Zillow Mortgage Marketplace

    With the world’s financial markets in so much turmoil this week, mortgage rates are bound to be affected. Aside from keeping track of rates in our More

  4. Is housing to blame for the economy?

    Is housing to blame for the economy?

    FOX Business posed this question to Zillow’s CFO, Spencer Rascoff and Chip Cummings, Northwest Financial Group President. They also discuss the failed bailout and its intended More

  5. Glendale AZ Brothers in Trouble over Haunted House

    Glendale AZ Brothers in Trouble over Haunted House

    Before you sink $40,000 into making your house a haunted house, make sure your home owner’s association (HOA) or city ordinance allows you to do that. More

  6. Unzipped Mortgage Rates Report:  September 29, 2008

    Unzipped Mortgage Rates Report: September 29, 2008

    Remember I told you to sit tight on that mortgage rate lock until after the Bailout Bill was passed? Well, it failed. Mortgage rates are a More

  7. Best Cities for Singles: “Hotlanta” and San Francisco

    Best Cities for Singles: “Hotlanta” and San Francisco

    If you’re young, fabulous, and looking for love in all the wrong places, consider relocating to Atlanta, GA (a.k.a. Hotlanta). According to Forbes’ recent Best Cities More

  8. The Bailout: What Effect Will it Have on Rates?

    The Bailout: What Effect Will it Have on Rates?

    That’s the multi-billion-dollar question.  Bottom line, when and if it passes, is that no one really knows.  So I thought I’d pose the question to those More

  9. Carnival of Real Estate #110

    Carnival of Real Estate #110

    The 110th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is live over at MyNewPlace Blog. With the recent turmoil in our financial markets, Matt DiChiara at More

  10. Believe It or Not: Thieves Stealing Solar Panels from Houses

    Believe It or Not: Thieves Stealing Solar Panels from Houses

    (Photo courtesy NY Times) Stealing copper pipes from abandoned or foreclosed homes is so yesterday. The latest object of house thieves’ desires are solar panels. According More