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Do You Need a Mortgage Broker?

I have never used a mortgage broker, preferring to be more personally involved in loan investigation and due diligence. Lots of others have used them and I wonder how much that has contributed to our...

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You Can Benefit from Impending Inflation

I have a suggestion for how you can benefit in residential real estate from the approaching inflation. When writing about inflation, most personal finance writers (including Mr. ToughMoneyLove) spend...

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The American Dream Revisited

Long time readers know that Mr. ToughMoneyLove has been a harsh critic of government intervention into the homeownership business, particularly its cheerleading of unqualified buyers into sub-prime...

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Staying Off the Car Payment Treadmill

Mr. and Mrs. ToughMoneyLove do not like car payments so we don’t have any. I don’t understand the logic in borrowing money to purchase a depreciating asset. Car payments are particularly problematic...

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Freddie and Fannie are Slow Learners

Freddie Mac announced that, come this September, it will no longer back interest-only mortgage loans. This is good news but raises two questions. First, what took Freddie took so long to pull the...

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Closing the Refinanced Mortgage

Mrs. ToughMoneyLove and I spent about 30 minutes at a local office of our new bank. Today was closing day on our mortgage refinance. The number of papers that need signing seems to be increasing...

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Good Riddance Freddie and Fannie?

Can it be that the “homeownership for everyone” army of dreamers has finally been defeated? Let’s hope so. Someone with sense in the Obama administration has convinced their economic team that Freddie...

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