INTERNATIONAL: Mortgage loans target Mexicans - 2004-02-28
Mexico's biggest private mortgage company will open an office in New York next week, providing loans to Mexicans working in the United States to buy homes in Mexico.

The loans will be in pesos and will carry the same conditions as the mortgages the company grants in Mexico, except that they will finance 80 percent instead of 90 percent of the value of homes, Requejo said. He said monthly payments would be around $400.
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Increase home insurance as house value climbs - 2004-02-28
Q: We purchased our home in 1991 and paid off its mortgage in 2001. Since our home's market value has doubled in value, and it is more expensive to build a house now, is there any need to request our insurance coverage be increased?

A: Shame on your insurance agent for not periodically updating your homeowner's insurance coverage to the current replacement cost of your residence at today's construction cost.
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