Blowing the Lid Off the Mortgage Industry
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Would your friends foreclose on you? Maybe. Maybe not. Unfortunately, your friends are not the only ones viewing your profile or Facebook or many other popular social networking sites. Creditors and collection agencies are, too.
MSNBC reports that at least two Facebook members have been sent legal notices via their Facebook account. In what appears to [...]
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Just got this from one of my friends online. Wachovia is now promoting itself via Twitter and letting everyone know about it. This image is from their contact page. I just started following them yet and haven’t gotten anything worth talking about; but I did want to mention that although Wachovia may be in a [...]
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I thought this was cool.
The New York Stock Exchange has made real-time price data available to the public free of charge via Google and CNBC. So if you’re in to stocks but not in to paying for real time pricing you can follow along at either of the two sites. Google and CNBC are picking [...]
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I just found out about PolicyMap a new service that lets you map an insane amount of data by region on all subjects ranging from mortgage originations, neighborhood crime stats and income demographics (and tons more). This could become a killer tool for homeowners looking to buy a home and for real estate agents and [...]
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There is a lot of great stuff out there on the Web that interests me that if not for the lack of time I’d blog about here. If you’re looking for more mortgage news from the world around us simply click on the Google Reader icon to get my shared items feed from [...]
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As if you haven’t noticed lately I’ve eschewed rapid-fire news updates in favor of less frequent, more in-depth thought pieces. I figure you can read the news anywhere; but maybe I have a gem or two in my head that may add some color to the landscape.
However, I have a nagging urge to report the [...]
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Hey gang,
Yours truly has been invited to speak at the upcoming Real Estate Connect conference in New York City. The conference starts on January 9th and runs through the 11th. You can see the full schedule at the Real Estate Connect Web site.
I will be speaking on Wednesday January 9th at 9:45 am [...]
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If you’re an internet geek like me you now have a chance to show your Blown Mortgage pride on Facebook. Yeah, we’ve got a group; and while we’re not expecting Stephen Colbert type-numbers, we’d love to extend our community beyond the blog. We’ll have some stuff there worth while, and the best part is that [...]
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Zillow announced a while back that they are launching a new mortgage service for the users of their site. They must be getting close, because they are currently recruiting for an industry relations director for their new mortgage opportunity. Todd Carpenter over at Lenderama started a discussion about what possibilities this new venture [...]
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Hey everyone -
Thanks for hanging with us over the last couple of days as we?ve resolved our server issues. We moved from DreamHost (should be called NightmareHost) to a grid-hosted solution which supports big bursts of traffic like we?ve had over the last week.
No more downtime, slow site response, or unreachable pages – promise! So [...]
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