Posts Tagged ‘first time home buyer’

Raymond Stoklosa

Book Review: Your First Home by Gary Keller

With so much written about home buying it’s difficult to sort out the good stuff from the junk. Well, I found some good stuff. Your First Home by Gary Keller, Dave Jenks and Jay Papasan is well-written, succinct and free of hype. This short book draws on the real life experiences of first time home [...]

Chris Williamson

FHA Risk-Based Pricing: More Changes for the San Mateo County Borrower

As you are learning, the mortgage industry likes to change the rules – usually in the middle of the game. In fact, just this week the Federal Housing Administration released their risk-based mortgage pricing. While the new pricing does not affect the rate you are receiving on your loan, it does determine the upfront and [...]

Rebecca Williamson

Google Earth: Helping You Buy Your New Home

Raymond has talked a lot about doing your homework when shopping for a home, but we all know that takes time — and time is not a luxury I usually have. So what do you do when you’re stuck at your desk? How do you still buy a house to come home to?… Get creative [...]

Raymond Stoklosa

What Can I Expect at My San Mateo Real Estate Closing?

Hope you all had a great weekend and that you have been enjoying all our guest bloggers. We’ll try to keep adding to the variety of topics and authors, so keep the questions coming! I got a question this weekend from a reader who is almost at the end of their home buying transaction. She [...]

Raymond Stoklosa

Make San Mateo Home Ownership Possible with FHA Financing

I hope you all had a great holiday weekend! For those of you who spent the weekend jealously eyeing your friends’ backyards and grills, I have news for you… it’s time to stop making excuses and get that new home. But how, you ask? First, read our post from April to determine if it’s the [...]