An eclipse and flat rates? Here’s what happened
It was a slow economic newsweek this week. And despite the excitement over the eclipse, it didn’t give us lower rates. Even the news of July new homes sales numbers announced Wednesday had fallen 9.4%, still didn’t help the rates decrease at a noticeable level....
Can an income property cost you money?
You have an investment property you naturally think that you’re making money. But the truth is, many people actually lose money by accident. As an investment advisor, I see many people mistakenly falling into the California (CA) bank trap. What’s a CA bank? It’s the...
Economic News this Week: This week we had a couple of market-moving numbers
This week we had a couple of market-moving numbers, but ended flat. When you watch the bond market like we do, it gets exciting and can foreshadow things to come, such as higher rates. Tuesday we had the July retail sales number coming in much stronger than expected...
Success Story of the Week: One of my loudest advocates
One of my longtime clients and loudest advocates referred her co-worker almost 2 years ago to refinance her home. She started to get her paperwork together and would get side tracked. Life presented all kinds of hurdles and so it took until June of this year to get...