Finding the best mortgage rate that’s available for your new home loan is an vital step in turning your dream of being a homeowner into reality.  It isn’t always simple to find the rate that you want, but; it can take quite a bit of searching and comparing the rates offered by a number of [...]

No matter how the economy or the real estate market is performing, anyone buying property should be interested in getting the best mortgage rate possible. How do you find the lowest mortgage rates? Step One: Know how Mortgage Interest Rates are Calculated The Federal Reserve is an institution which keeps the [...]

Two brothers, after a long career with a major department store chain, choose to retire from the chain and open their own stores. They each opened a single store in different parts of the state within their first year after retirement, two more stores the following year, and then each bought a small competing [...]

me and my bf have been together a small over a year. he works in a warehouse doing shipping and recieving and i work at a bank as a asst. loan officer and sometimes a teller…now i know there’s no real comparison. but everytime we get home and i say im tired or have a [...]

Shopping around is the only way you can be sure you are getting the best mortgage rate.
When you have several rates to compare to each other, then you can better determine which of those rates is the best mortgage rate.
Mortgages are available from several different sources.
Mortgage companies, mortgage brokers, savings and loans associations, and credit [...]

Mortgage market and rate update for Friday February 27, 2009 from Bob Strandell, Loan Officer with Bell Mortgage. One of the top mortgage banker’s in Minnesota. Call Bob at 952-277-3000 for the best service and mortgage rates in Minnesota.

Mortgage market and rate update for Friday June 19, 2009 from Bob Strandell, Loan Officer with Bell Mortgage. One of the top mortgage banker’s in Minnesota. Call Bob at 952-277-3000 for the best service and mortgage rates in Minnesota.

My husband and I were pre-approved for a FHA loan on a manufactured home through that company’s lender. But after researching, we reckon a site built home will be better in the long run. We went to Wells Fargo since that is where we bank. Currently the FHA loan is in underwriting. Since we were [...]

I have spent 3-4 week trying to refinance my mortgage loan & each time the loan officer I’m working with promises me that he is the person that can get my loan done…but it really comes down to the underwriter choice. Why can I just work with an underwriter instead of a loan officer? [...]

We finally found a property that we like, but it turned out to be a detached condo. Our bank gave us a fantastic quote on the mortgage rate that we chose to lock, and two weeks before the closing and approval of the loan we were told that the property was incorrect and the [...]