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Archive for February, 2007

Does The Mortgage Process Tie You Up In Knots?

Then stick with us baby, we can untie any problem for you.

PS: Why did I post this? Cause I am a kid at heart. Just ask the grandkids. Lar

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For Great Consumer Reading Click Over To The 18 Magnificent 7 Nominees.

Click Here My Dear

These articles are truly magnificent.

Follow us through 2007 for the final 7.

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Where’s Larry? It is like where’s Waldo.

He is in one of the pictures Kathleen posted in her Issaquah Undressed.com article about our valentine trip to Seattle; Click here.

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I Find It Weird That The Press Is So Full Of Vitriol Against The Interest Only Mortgage And Not So About The Damage Of Credit Cards

Why is that?

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Today Is A Day To Re-verify Your Loan Approval.

Things are rapidly changing for home borrowers. Click Here for an article we posted on realestateundressed.com

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A FICO Score Question And Answer

Question: Is it true that my FICO score can’t recover from a negative mark for 7 years?

Answer: Click here for the answer on our FICO AND Credit blog.

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Keep Those Credit Card Balances High Please

I am noticing that a lot of folks just can’t control their desire to buy with credit cards. They cannot control having high balances. People who took a wise step in getting out of 18% credit card rates through refinancing their home are running their balances up again. The intent was good, paying off those high interest rate balances.

However I have observed:

The urge to buy is running high.
The urge to spend is in control again.

The strength to resist just does not exhist.
Being mature - a trait that doesn’t endure.

So being the pragmatist I am. (ho ho ho) I decided to make the mobs of credit card addicts my benefactors. I took my entire retirement investments and put them in the new mutual investment fund you may have heard of: “Credit Card Cocaine Fund”

“Credit Card Cocaine Fund” is a unique fund that purchases stock in companies that understand the human addiction to high balances and using up every ounce of credit limit one can acquire. It focuses on companies with research departments that identify the people that are willing to pay the highest rate of interest. It has the uncanny capacity to spot those companies that willingly raise the credit lines of those most likely to use them.

Now how about this for business savvy! One of these companies has determined how to identify the genetic propensity to become addicted to continually having credit card balances. Yes this is a fact.


These genetic marvels start receiving toy credit cards for Christmas and anonymous birthday presents beginning at age 8. This idea came from James J Smoke, who was a noted research analyist for the cigarette industry. Smoke is solely responsible for persuading the candy companies to start selling chocolate cigarettes. They had to subsidize the candy companies as this ended up in providing greater sales for the cigarette companies long term. It became a fact that the kids stopped buying the chocolate kind for the hard stuff, you know real cigarettes.

So old Smoke used this knowledge and moved on to higher income at the international advisory council for earning high rates of interest. It is said, his idea of toy credit cards is garnering him a huge bonus.

Aside from all this complicated data, is the simple fact that my retirement is in your hands, all this thanks to the new investment fund that targets the right people buying the right stuff, any stuff. That is any stuff paid by credit card.

Keep those credit card balances high please. I must retire someday.

Better yet, you could move to Addictsville, Texas (shown below) where you must make every purchase with credit cards and are subject to an annual audit proving you never pay the balances off.

Larry Cragun

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Is This A Bug? Don’t Bug Me On Saturday

Or as Teresa Boardmand Coined: Bugs Undressed.

Another Julian Beever Chalk Work.

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Why is this woman so aghast?

This is the look of shock of a woman who realizes how different the rate she was quoted from what is on the closing papers. She doesn’t know what to do as she has to be out of her apartment in 3 days. Everone she knows has driven by the new home. What can she do? What would you suggest she do? Help her with your sound advice please.

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Things Will Be Different Here - Still A Site For Consumers

Mortgages Undressed: A site that for a year has been dedicated to educating the consumer. The content for the past year will stay, with new mortgage content on RealEstateUndressed.com

We will now use this website to help you find a specific qualification of loan officer. That qualification is one that has the recommendation of a real estate agent. Having been a loan office, mortgage company owner, real estate agent, and broker it is my firm belief that this single factor is your best way of having a good mortgage experience.

You must still be responsible for good decisions. However study the hundreds of articles we have posted. Follow these two websites daily, they provide quick and easy reading.

AND - USE THE LOAN OFFICERS WE LIST HERE. WE DON’T CHARGE THEM BUT REQUIRE AN AGENT REFERENCE. YOU MUST BE ABLE TO CONTACT THAT AGENT. CALL THE AGENT THAT RECOMMENDED THEM. GET TO KNOW THAT AGENT. THEN CALL THEM BACK AT THE END TO GIVE THEM A STATUS REPORT.

Stay tuned more to follow: Larry Cragun

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