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Mortgage News for Sunday - February 15, 2004

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• Mortgage insurance write-off floated
• Concerns over equity release loans
• The Very, Very Personal Is the Political
• A Matter of Timing in Paying Bills Online
• The Week Ahead: Laughing all the way to our banks?
• Income Tax Itemizers Need to Look Out For Easy-to-Miss Deductions
• Former Oregon resident facing federal fraud indictment
• SSS puts in P30 billion of mortgage agency’s loans
• How are home prices in your neighborhood?
• Mark Paul: Big debt? Big deal! Let your kids pay it down
• Foreign investment buying mortgages
• Nursing home fees more than mortgage payments
• Elderly face 'new mis-selling scandal'
• Pay down credit card debts first
• Bendigo Bank of Australia First-Half Profit Rises 36% (Update3)
• Loan Portfolio Valuation Solution Released
• BUSINESS PULSE
• Banks profit with strong mortgage business
• Timing not good for bill allowing Private Mortgage Insurance deductibility
• Single-family home sales increase steadily
• Sifting Through Rules Pays Off For Homeowners
• Annual home show provides smorgasbord of services
• Habitat for Humanity to dedicate homes today
• Married Couples Should Rethink Plans To Itemize
• Get rate locked on mortgage
• Don't get burned, know cool-off rules on loans and mortgages
Mortgage News
The Very, Very Personal Is the Political - 2004-02-15
Suppose, for the sake of argument, that you are summoned into the boss's office and asked to help promote to the citizens of the United States on one of two presidential candidates in the 2004 campaign.

These are the customers you have to get to buy your Brand A over Brand B. So who are they? Where are they? Are they rich, with three kids and a jumbo mortgage? Do they own fly rods and drive minivans?
Read the full story at New York Times
 
A Matter of Timing in Paying Bills Online - 2004-02-15
People who arranged for a set up of electronic payments to be made just before they are due should remember one caution. Despite the "electronic" inferred in "online bill payment," not all payees - including some that are quite large - have made arrangements for electronic transfer of funds.

I discovered this recently when I was hit with a late payment fee from a mortgage company I paid through an online service offered by my bank.
Read the full story at New York Times
 






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