Free Smoke Alarms & Batteries

Did you know that in the Edmond and Oklahoma City area if you do not have a single smoke alarm that is working properly in your home that you can call the fire department and they can help? Each fire department has teamed up with merchants to help provide smoke alarms for each household. You…

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Cleveland County is ranked one of America’s Best Affordable Places

This is an excerpt from and article called “America’s Best Affordable Places” by Venessa Wong and Jennifer Prince in Bloomberg Businessweek on May 27, 2011. “In an exclusive ranking for Businessweek.com, Bloomberg Rankings analyzed government-gathered data on more than 3,000 counties across the U.S. to select the best affordable place in each state. We then…

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Best time for buying a home is NOW!

Right now is a great time to buy a home because there are an abundance of homes on the market, prices are affordable and interest rates are awesome! I was reading on the “Steve Sjuggerud’s Daily Wealth” website today about how he thinks right “now is literally the best time in recorded history to buy…

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Weekly Mortgage Update

Good news! The employment numbers for March came out strong today.  The unemployment rate dropped too.  All of this underscores the fact that the economy is doing better.  Combine this with the Core PCE index, the Fed’s measure of inflation, coming in at an annualized rate of 2.4% and you have definite upward pressure on…

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Weekly Mortgage Update

There is an old curse my mother once taught me:  May you live in interesting times.  Honestly, I don’t think it’s a curse because I’d rather have an  interesting time than a boring one.  But markets don’t always like interesting and so we continue to see the push pull dynamic between world uncertainty and economic…

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Find out more on FHA raising the MIP

Did you know that FHA is raising the Mortgage Insurance Premium, MIP, on all loans filed after October 4th, 2010? FHA will raise the MIP on all FHA case numbers assigned on or after October 4th.  This is a value added proposition for any one out there that is on the fence about buying a house. …

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Sales have slowed down, but still remain above last year.

Excerpt from Realtor.com Daily Real Estate News  | July 22, 2010  | Sales Slow But Remain Above Last Year With the scheduled closing deadline for the home buyer tax credits, existing-home sales slowed in June but remained at relatively elevated levels, according to the National Association of REALTORS®. Existing-home sales, which are completed transactions that include single-family,…

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