Top six reasons mortgage applications are rejected

Half of refinance applications are abandoned or rejected, as are 30 percent of purchase mortgage applications, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. All told, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) says that well over 2 million mortgage applications were rejected last year. Want to avoid falling into that number? It’s tough — especially in …

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What If You Could Rent the White House?

I saw this fun factoid on realestate.AOL.com: if the White House were rented out for seven weeks out of every year, the rental income it would rake in would be close to $4 million! American families have gotten pretty creative in coming up with ways to trim the budget on vacations. So here’s a vacation …

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