Who’s on first? Where in the world is Carmen San Diego? And why do hot dog buns and hot dogs never come in packages that match quantities? Those are just some of the age-old questions that we’ve yet to get clear answers on. One question that is equally as trivial for...
I’ve been in the mortgage business for 12 years – and in the last 14 months I’ve seen the lowest rates of my career and the highest rates of my career. To say that the mortgage business in 2022 has been volatile is like saying Jeffrey Dahmer did some bad things...
I was visiting a real estate office last month; ran into a real estate broker I’d never met and introduced myself. She’s a well-established broker who has been in the business for 14 years. Naturally we were talking shop as mortgage and real estate professionals do....
On July 27th, the Fed raised the Fed Funds Rate by another .75%, bringing the Fed’s benchmark rate to 2.25%-2.500% which is the highest it’s been since December of 2018. Leading up to this most recent Fed meeting, I received a flurry of panicked phone calls from...
Through the first 6 months of this year all we’ve been hearing about is rising interest rates, higher inflation, a slowdown in the economy, and the can’t miss drama that is Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. (When does Season 2 come out?). Hopefully everyone has...
MOLINGO: Mortgage Lingo with Michele Hammond, Carbon Team at CrossCountry Mortgage It’s June already?! Summer is just around the corner which means we are nearly halfway through the year. It’s a great time for a 2022 market recap. Here’s what we have seen so far this...
