What The USDA Rural Loans Underwriter Looks For When You Apply… Part 1 This is a three part series where we will look at the 3 factors that a USDA Rural Development underwriter will look at when reviewing your file … Read More

From the WSJ: Bankruptcy Filing Near for Taylor Bean A bankruptcy filing is “imminent” for Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp., lawyers representing the mortgage lender said in a federal court filing last week. … Meanwhile, an internal email at … Read More

The good news, according to a Barclays Capital report, is not as many Option ARMs will recast in 2011 as forecast earlier by Credit Suisse. The bad news is borrowers are defaulting en masse before the recast. From Bloomberg: Option … Read More

Each Monday, The Simple Dollar opens up the reader mailbags and answers ten to twenty simple questions offered up by the readers on personal finance topics and many other things. Got a question? Ask it in the comments. You might … Read More

Some people in sales think a lead is a name from a list. That’s not correct. A name from a list is not a lead–it’s a suspect, a total stranger and it does not matter if they meet some criteria … Read More

This is Mark Dow. Brad is away. China has become the obsession that Japan was back in the 80s. And rightly so. It is a huge place, with a robust secular growth force underlying it (remember the conditional convergence growth … Read More

A reader asked me if I could break down my ideas into a handful of principles. After some careful thought, I came up with a list of fourteen basic “rules” that summarize my money and life philosophy. I’ll be presenting … Read More

This is the second of twelve parts of a “book club” reading and discussion of Dave Ramsey’s The Total Money Makeover , where this book on debt reduction is teased apart and looked at in detail. This entry covers the … Read More

John Wiley & Sons plans a paperback next year of Chain of Blame , a book I co-wrote about the credit and housing bubbles. Paul Muolo and I have a month or two to update it. If any readers of … Read More

Each Monday, The Simple Dollar opens up the reader mailbags and answers ten to twenty simple questions offered up by the readers on personal finance topics and many other things. Got a question? Ask it in the comments. You might … Read More