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Vacation Home Mortgages in the New York Times(0)

January 10, 2010

A couple of days ago, the New York Times ran an article here about vacation home mortgages.  The bullet points if you don’t want to read it all tell us that: They’re still difficult to get, but easing a bit from last year Jumbos are not getting much easier Higher down payments, with 10% not [...]

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Condo Shopping In the Taos Real Estate Market

With a single family home, you’re pretty much in control of a lot of things that you can’t control in a condo project. With the pooled fees, maintenance and improvements are dependent on a properly structured budget, and condo owners that are paying their dues on time and in full.

No Better Time for Locals to Buy a Home

Think you can’t afford a home, or you don’t have a down payment, so can’t buy one? If you’re credit is good and you aren’t overloaded with debt, there is a program you might qualify for. It’s the USDA Rural Home Guarantee program.

REALTOR® Magazine-Daily News-No-Doc Loans Could Return

Image by jimkimmons via Flickr REALTOR® Magazine-Daily News-No-Doc Loans Could Return.  Maybe the Taos real estate market will get a boost when no doc and low doc loans return.  The article at the link seems to believe that they will within the next six months.  I know that those type loans are how we self-employed [...]


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