Last week I had the opportunity to visit our corporate office in Pennington, NJ. I felt the pressures of doing business on the road but...

Earlier this week, our CEO, Rich Weidel sent me a list of differences between what makes someone an amateur versus what makes someone a...

As I sat down to right the blog this morning I began struggling with the very question that I pose in the title. What is the American...

First and foremost, I would like to apologize for the delay in getting the blog back up and running. As I mentioned in my last post we’ve...

As you’ve probably noticed in the past few weeks our blog posting has become a bit irregular. You can blame it on a variety of different...

$8,957. That was the per loan cost to originate a mortgage in Q1 of 2018. We haven’t seen the costs this high since 2013 – 2014 and it...

Last Thursday, Ginnie Mae announced their new stipulations for lenders originating VA refinances. Under the new guides, all refi’s...

In February 1976 Maxine Nightingale’s version of “Right Back Where We Started From” hit #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 list… so what’s that...

Yesterday, the leader of the free world did what he tends to so often… talk. However, what he said (meeting with North Korea probably...

How was your weekend? For me, it was jammed packed… after finishing up a long week, the team and I took in a few libations at a local...

Over the past week or so we’ve diverted our attention off the details of the mortgage industry to discuss more whimsical topics… like the...

In 2009, Brian O’Neill wrote a book title, The Paris of Appalachia: Pittsburgh in the Twenty-first Century. He leads off the book with...

In March we heard reports that Amazon is quietly looking to hire the head of their new mortgage division… like the search for their HQ2...

First and foremost, sorry for the corny title this morning. Over the past few months it’s been increasingly difficult to find up beat...

Yesterday, the team here at Princeton Mortgage (Pittsburgh) ran the 10th Annual Pittsburgh Marathon. I must say that for five guys that...

It’s funny to me that as a nation we can’t just bask in the fact that our economy is strong. It’s good right now. It’s healthy (kinda)....

Last Thursday, Freddie Mac released a new conventional 3% down program. The program is designed to help qualified first-time homebuyers...

The 10-year Treasury Note is about 25bps from hitting 3%. This is the 10-year’s highest level since January of 2014. Okay? So, what does...

So, it’s April… and there is still snow in the weekly forecast… sweet. It looks like we need to remain patient for the official close out...

In 2016, refinances made up 50% of mortgage transactions. In 2017 they made up 35% and with rates on the rise in 2018 we’re going to see...