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Too Busy To Blog… Look at these rates!

Mortgage Rates change on a daily basis and can vary depending on your unique situation.

The following rates are provided as a gauge of current market conditions.

Weekly Hot Rates

As of July 16, 2010

Loan Type

Max Loan Amt.

Interest Rate

Points

APR

30 Year Fixed Conforming

Up to $417,000

4.375%

0 Points

4.481%

30 Year Fixed  Jumbo Conforming

Up to $729,750

4.75%

0 Points

4.868%

30 Year Fixed  Jumbo

Up to

$1,000,000

5.75%

0 Points

5.871%

5 Year Fixed

Jumbo

Up to $1,000,000

3.875%

1.0 Points

4.344%

7 Year Fixed

Jumbo

Up to $1,000,000

4.375%

1.0 Points

4.611%


Pay off your loan in half the time

Discover how to:

Save thousands in interest

Pay off your loan faster

With no change in spending habits

Home Equity Accelerator

Retire Your Mortgage Before You Retire …a sure thing in creating equity!

I have invited Chris George, President of CMG Mortgage Services, to write this article and give his perspective on a new equity building product.

By Chris George, President, CMG Mortgage Services . .. An increasing number of baby-boomer homeowners seem to be resigning themselves to the fact that, unlike their parents, they will be making mortgage payments well into retirement.  If you look at statistics, you can see where this anxiety comes from.  The average age of a person taking out a 30-year mortgage in California is 45 years old.  Unless those people sell their homes or pay off their loan early, their last mortgage payment won’t be made until they are 75 years old!  And to pay off that loan early isn’t easy, because the borrower has to make significant changes to the family budget to squeeze in the extra principal payments.

Thankfully, there is now a better way to retire mortgage-free.

Use CMG’s revolutionary Home Ownership Accelerator loan to accelerate paying off your home loan without changing your family budget.  You simply deposit your monthly paychecks directly into this innovative line-of-credit, reducing your loan balance until you pay your bills.  While you aren’t using the deposited money it keeps your principal balance lower, which can save you many tens of thousands of dollars of interest over time. The money you save remains in the account, further reducing your balance.  So, just by changing where you deposit your income, you can pay off your loan years earlier with no change to the family budget.  A recent article in the New York Times noted the arrival of the Accelerator as a viable financing alternative.

“For borrowers who cannot face the prospect of paying more interest than principal over the course of a loan, mortgage lenders have begun to offer alternatives more aggressively.  Companies like Macquarie Mortgages USA, CMG Financial Services and others have unveiled mortgage products in the past year that allow borrowers with good credit and above-average incomes to accelerate their payoff schedule and reduce their overall interest liability,

all without increasing their monthly mortgage payment.

”These aren’t for everyone,” said Tom LaMalfa, founding partner of Wholesale Access Research and Consulting, a financial industry consulting firm based in Columbia, Md. ”But for those who are reasonably affluent and good savers, it makes a good deal of sense and reduces the overall loan cost.”

If you want to further accelerate the pay-down of your loan balance without changing your family spending habits, consider parking your rainy day money in the account.  Your rainy day fund is probably sitting in a low-interest bearing savings account or CD. Switch that money into your Home Ownership Accelerator account, and that money will immediately reduce your loan balance, saving you even more interest.  (Your “effective yield” on your rainy day fund is now equal to your loan’s interest rate!)  And you haven’t lost access to your rainy day fund:  You can tap into it instantly by writing a check or using your debit card.  Until that rainy day comes, however, your cash is working aggressively to help you pay down your loan faster.

Overall, by flowing your day-to-day income and expenses through this line-of-credit, and parking liquid cash accounts such as savings and CDs in the account, you could accelerate your mortgage pay-down fast enough to completely pay the loan off in about half the time.  Which means, even if you are a baby-boomer, you can actually retire mortgage-free!  While this sounds too good to be true, this loan is for real!  If this sounds intriguing enough to discuss in greater detail, watch a short video on www.homeownershipaccelerator.net and give me a call at 650-322-7277.

Wow! Interest Rates Are Screaming Hot

Mortgage Rates change on a daily basis and can vary depending on your unique situation.

The following rates are provided as a gauge of current market conditions.

Wow! Interest Rates Are Screaming Hot

As of July 2, 2010

Loan Type

Max Loan Amt.

Interest Rate

Points

APR

30 Year Fixed Conforming

Up to $417,000

4.5%

0 Points

4.612%

30 Year Fixed  Jumbo Conforming

Up to $729,750

4.75%

0 Points

4.871%

30 Year Fixed  Jumbo

Up to

$1,000,000

5.75%

1.0 Points

5.871%

5 Year Fixed

Jumbo

Up to $1,000,000

4.0%

1.0 Points

4.744%

7 Year Fixed

Jumbo

Up to $1,000,000

4.5%

1.0 Points

4.811%

Rates and terms subject to change without notice

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*  Super Jumbo loans up to $5,000,000 available

* Commercial loan programs available


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8 Tips to Improve the Curb Appeal of Your Home

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8 simple and inexpensive things you can do to improve your home’s curb appeal.  For $50 or less you can impact the first impression of visitors to your home.

As seen on Valley Home on TV with Debbie Giordano and Todd Flesner

Tyler on TV

Tyler Flesner talks about his experience with 4-H.

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Stern Mortgage Recognized as Outstanding Business

Awards recognizing “exceptional civic contributions and service to the community,” are being presented this evening by the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce.

This year’s Tall Tree Award goes to..

Stern Mortgage Company is proud to be named the Tall Tree recipient in the category of Outstanding Business.  Thanks to our clients, referral partners, and other centers of influence we’ve joined the ranks of previous recipients including Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Lockheed Martin and many others since 1980.  We value the relationships that have lead to this recognition.

Does solar make sense for me?

Should I put a solar electricity generating system on my home?  Get answers to your questions in this interview.

Stern Mortgage Company Honored

Stern Mortgage Company is proud to have been named recipient of the 2010 “Tall Tree’ Award.  Co-sponsored by the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce and the Palo Alto Weekly the award recognizes community service and exceptional civic contributions in four catagories: citizen/volunteer, business person, nonprofit and business.  The nomination of Stern Mortgage cited the company as, “the model of truly serving the needs of their clients while giving back to the community.”

http://www.PaloAltoOnline.com/news/story.php?story_id=15620

Move Up Buyers to Benefit from Tax Credit

A window of opportunity has just been opened for current home owners to make a move… up.    Along with extending the $8,000 first time home buyer credit, congress has authorized a tax credit of $6,500 for those that already own a home.  The tax credit for first time buyers has been an element in helping to stability to the real estate market.

The $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers has been extended through the first six months of next year.  Added to the measure is a $6,500 credit for repeat buyers who have owned their current abode for at least five consecutive years over the previous eight years.   For move-up buyers the purchase price is limited to $800,000; and individuals and couples cannot earn more than $125,000 and $225,000 a year, respectively.  To qualify for the new or extended tax credit you must have a valid contract to purchase a property dated prior to April 30, 2010.

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