The Big Orange Press Blog
Recently, CDPE author and Charfen Institute CEO Alex Charfen hosted an exclusive broadcast with Bob Hora, Senior Vice President of Mortgage Servicing at Bank of America Home Loans. Bob Hora provided insight into Bank of America’s evolving approach to managing their distressed mortgage portfolio, which includes plans to increase short […]
In a recent blog post, CNBC’s Diana Olick slams the Republican presidential candidates’ plans for solving the nation’s housing crisis. Political beliefs aside, Olick makes some astute observations regarding the bank’s preferences for short sales over foreclosures and the important role that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac play in keeping […]
Questions arise over the bonuses being paid to Freddie and Fannie Executives.
In a recent post we talked about the home values at some on some of the larger sites like Zillow and Trulia may not accurate. Well the same is true about home searches there are about a million places online where you can search homes for sale in Knoxville. But […]
Well disappointingly, but not surprisingly, the Congressional “Super Committee” failed to come up with a plan to reduce the Federal deficit. The fact that the deficit needs to be reduced and there were no new proposals on the table of how to go about doing so, got me to thinking […]
THDA is a program designed to help home buyers get into a home with little or no money down. It is an excellent program that many of my first time home buyers use. They have just increased the purchase price limits in Knox County up to $240,000 which is great. […]
Have you been thinking about buying a West Knoxville home but are unsure whether now is a good time to buy? Consider these 5 GREAT reasons to buy a West Knoxville home now: 1. Affordable home index of 83% — that means 83% of everyone working in West Knoxville can […]
With the internet it has made it alot easier to search for homes and obtain information about properties. I was reading an interest article in Smart Money about people obtaining property values on homes on line. The article went to say that big national sites like Zillow and Trulia people […]
We have been talking about getting a “deal” on a Knoxville Area Home. In my post 1 we talked about a short sale and post 2 we talked about a foreclosure from a local lender. Both of these buyers were involved in multiply offer situations and because they had patience […]