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Debt Reduction Solutions
By Mark Lambie
Finding solutions to reducing your debt takes some thinking and research on your part. You have some good choices available to you and we shall list these key debt reduction solutions for you right here:

1. Home Equity Loan or Home Equity Line of Credit. Your 21% charge card can be reduced to nearly 6% over night. How? By taking out a line of credit or equity loan against your home. Equity loans and lines of credit are available at low rates and banks are very willing to extend this service to you as your home is your collateral. Pay off all of your credit card debt with the loan and you will achieve debt reduction solutions immediately.

2. Replace high interest credit cards with low interest cards. Yes, in this day of low interest rates, many credit cards carry high interest rates. Ask your credit card issuer to reduce their rate closer to market rates. If they refuse to budge, consider applying for a low interest rate card from another provider. Transfer your balance to the provider offering the best rate.

3. Debt reduction solutions can be realized through the selling of other assets including: an extra car,

antiques, jewelry, extra property, renting out property, or liquidating some other assets. Check around your home and see if there is something that you owe that can be sold on eBay or locally at a yard sale. Take the proceeds from your sale and pay down your debt, starting with the biggest debt first.

4. If you do not owe a home, or the home you do own has negligible equity built up then you cannot get equity from your home. Still, depending on your income, you may be eligible for refinancing below market rates. Check with your bank or local housing authority to see if you qualify for a low or moderate income loan. The savings you realize through reduced payments may help you pay down your debt.

Finding debt reduction solutions that work for you is an important first step in eliminating debt. Make a plan and stick with it and you will soon be living a debt free/care free life.

About the Author
Mark Lambie is the founder of Fast Debt Settlement. We provide a free service that matches you with debt consolidation specialists.

We strive to provide only quality articles, so if there is a specific topic related to mortgage that you would like us to cover, please contact us at any time.

And again, thank you to those contributing daily to our mortgage broker website.

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Proposed RESPA Reform
Mortgage brokers may have some intrusive rules from HUD to deal with.

When I read the news on HUD?s proposed reform of the Real Estate Settlement and Procedures Act (RESPA) I was skeptical. Cathy from Sequim challenged me to read the 96-page federal register document so we could all figure out what?s going on. I am here to tell you that there is one very good change coming out of this proposal. In fact, it?s so good that I am borderline hopeful that this change might do what legislation is suppose to do and what HUD forgot to do when they signed the original version of RESPA in 1974. But first, the changes that will have many, but not all mortgage brokers screaming bloody murder:

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Neocon-omics
How much can the Fed and the U.S. government do in the face of declining housing prices?

That?s been my worry since I saw the housing bubble peak in 2005. Historically, declines in housing prices take 3-4 years to bottom, which means we still should be at least half a year away. But after that, the economy doesn?t rebound instantly. It yo-yos for a bit - essentially running horizontal.

Read more: Neocon-omics: the Emperor’s Club that screwed us all

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A Mortgage Fraud Solution
A look at appraisers, mortgage brokers, and fraud.

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Read more: This Is A Mortgage Fraud Solution, But!

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Choosing Second-best
How to leverage your second choice into seller concessions and a better deal.

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Read more: Choosing second-best could get you the best possible home

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Price Depression
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Read more: Wilt the Silt

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A good tip on getting concessions from the seller.

You should try to get pre-approved by a lender prior to shopping for a home. A pre-approval is a strong marketing tool when making an offer that may contain many a number of seller concessions. Telling a seller that you are already approved for a loan makes the acceptance of a low offer or one where he may be paying the closing costs much more palatable.

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Read more: Time to purchase a house?

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Strike One
A look at role of mortgage insurance in FHA loans.

Regarding the second point: By not raising the loan limits they fail in one of the 11 ways they can help. I believe they will fail in almost all, but let us have hope. To be specific as to why I support this: FHA is not a government gimme. It is a government guarantee the mortgage will be paid or the lender compensated for losses. The program pays positive cash flow to the government in that there is a type of mortgage insurance fee charged the borrower. It is reasonable and more than pays for the reimbursements made to the lenders that suffer a default.

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A critical look at a story about mortgage brokers turned sex workers.

What else can you say to such a ridiculous report, such obvious sensationalism? The sad thing is, many people will read this wild hyperbole and imagine that the TV station?s salacious report has a ?point? to it.

Read more: Housing Slump ‘Forces’ Pair to Open Whorehouse?

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This blogger says lower mortgage rates will drive buyers to the residential real estate market soon.

Ten days ago after the Fed calmed the markets' credit panic with a 1/2 point cut in the Discount rate, I postulated that home buyers will come back this fall when the Fed finally drops the Fed Funds rate, and mortgage rates drop. It's now almost certain to happen. Here are the parameters in play now:

Read more: Home buyers are returning this fall - part 2

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A look at the cost of a lead for a mortgage broker.

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Why I Have Endorsed FHA
A look at FHA compliance for mortgage brokers.

Having been an FHA lender I can attest it is a pain at times. FHA requires annual financial audits of the mortgage brokers financial condition and more. We always have survived the several day pain, and the expenses tied to it, but only FHA drags brokers through this. The actual banks that sponsor the mortgage broker go through even more red tape and grief. Loan officers have to know more rules. FHA doesn?t rely on the easy automated underwriting or the quick answer from a subprime lender. FHA restricts how the borrowers pay for certain expenses and how much the lender can charge.

Read more: I Have Endorsed FHA, Why Specifically?

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