Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Another Very Happy Client We Have Worked WIth

About 12 years ago you were helping me try to refinance my condo in my name alone while I was going through a divorce with my ex-husband. On the day that the valuer was coming out to for the assessment of my condo the company I was working for laid off all the staff and I was out of a job. It was all unexpected and devastating for me. As a result I was not able to proceed with the refinance and was forced to sell my condo.  When I called you to see if I could settle the $600 bill for the assessment out of the goodness in your heart you told me not to worry about the bill and hoped I would recommend you to other potential buyers in the future.  This was a wonderful act of kindness that stays with me today. I don't know if you remember any of it but I do and sometimes even share the story with others. Have a wonderful holiday season.


Kelly Carlin

Monday, January 12, 2015

Capital Markets


By Louis S. Barnes                                                    Monday, January 12, 2015
     Okay, make sense of this: the US economy in a strengthening recovery, the Fed is in hold-me-back mode, jobs-jobs-jobs everywhere... and long-term interest rates have dropped as they would in a depression.
     Right.
     Begin by stripping away three sources of confusion. First the confetti cloud from Wall Street “analysts.” Assume that any commentary from a Street house, or an investment fund is a sales pitch. Maybe useful, maybe not, but frequently designed to induce fear which can only be quenched by handing your money to the firm. These pitches include attractive but indefensible criticism of the Fed, or advocate alternate universes (the gold brigade, Jim Grant marching naked in front), or government-haters.
     Second, hold at a distance all commentary relying on a traditional business cycle, like all the ones after WW II. A lot of good people are caught in this one -- shoot, our only guide is history and recognition of prior patterns. But, in the last 20 years we’ve been moving farther away from prior pattern, less and less retracing. The cyclical allure is powerful: if more and more people are going to work, sooner or later wages will grow, and then too fast, and then we’ll have an inflation problem -- unless the Fed pre-empts by raising the cost of money.
     Third, certainly including this author, nobody knows with any precision what happens next, not in a situation without modern precedent. However, some wisdom is available from studying the specific departures today from prior cycles.
     1. Housing is MIA, flat. Traditional measures of affordability are off-chart high-side. Mortgages never got above 4.50% and are now under 4.00% again. Foreclosures new and old are way down. Absolutely inescapable: something(s) is missing from purchasing power. Credit is too tight, but more important....
     2. The shocker in today’s job data was not another 252,000 jobs in December, or unemployment down to 5.6%, but the drop in hourly wages which canceled the gain in November, the net year-over-year a pathetic 1.7% gain, minimized by....
     3. The cost of health insurance including deductibles is killing the average household. It is not the fault of ObamaCare except by omission (cost reduction was/is every bit as important as more coverage), but the annual premium for a family (employer/family combined) reached $16,000 in 2013, and new subsidies fall off for family incomes above $75,000 per year.
     There is a lot of good stuff going on in the US, but those three are the cement Frankensteins in the parking lot. Then there is the drag from overseas. The Fed’s most recent meeting minutes contain more musing about foreign weakness than any I’ve ever read.
     4. The German 10-year is now 0.49%, and Japan’s 0.28%. Many claim that European yields are pushed down by anticipation of ECB QE, but rates here moved up at the onset of each round of Fed QE, hopeful that QE would work. Alternate explanations for Europe and Japan: too late for QE, debt is growing faster than economies, default in the air. Europe has a good chance to recover if it repairs euro-errors, Japan maybe not. US bond yields are pulled down by these two, yet....
     5. Europe is not in deflation. falling oil has pulled its overall CPI to negative .2%, but its core is still positive .6%. Japan is closer to zero, but the real problem in both places is American Disease: incomes compressed by global wage competition.
     Wild cards are scattered all over the place. The collapse of oil should help, but there may be too many zero-sum effects. Everyone in that market assumes that prices will rebound to the $70/bbl level. China is slowing, trying to re-balance its economy, but even they can’t know the pace or effects inside or out.
     Nobody believes the Fed. Short-term Treasurys have priced-in one .25% hike this year, a Wright brothers liftoff. If considering a refi in this murk, take any deal that recaptures costs in 18 months or less, and don’t wait for lower.
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Sunday, December 28, 2014

The Advantages of Having a Mortgage Planner


Mortgage planners are part of the mortgage banking industry, they work hand in hand with financial planners for the purpose of securing that the financial products are in accordance with the marketing trends both conventional and unconventional. The job of a mortgage planner is as the name implies, to hand over a mortgage plan that is created specifically with assisting the client in increasing the home equity and managing debts and credits at the same time. Mortgage planner in bellevue can help you with your financial issues.

As you may well have known, a mortgage planner is very well versed with financial terminology and well provided with knowledge along with expertise especially on issues with financial planning and tax implications. They also provide strategies with real estate and mortgage. They also provide helpful advices for issues like your largest debts and mortgage. They help you in expanding your cash flow and making you debt free as soon as possible thus helping you achieve financial freedom quickly. They give tons of advantages including raising your profits, avoiding real estate scams and implementing strategies for mortgage and real estate equity. Though this would mean hiring them and having costs for their fees, this will actually save you lots of money in the long run and even gaining you profits and capital gains. Mortgage planners also provides you with the best deals thus helping you enhance and beautify your credit score so you will still get the best deals for your financial businesses. When all financial terminology are confusing and a jumble for you, your mortgage planner is here to set clear and explain every little thing that you are confused on as well as the advantages and disadvantages for each strategy and which would work best.


Guidance is another benefit that a mortgage planner provides. They assist you with enacting the most advantageous strategies for home equity and mortgage like for certain life situations such as divorce or even with your children’s educational financing. Mortgage planners are good in empowering their clients who are planning on starting or selling their businesses as well as implementing mortgage and equity strategies or even when you are planning to purchase or construct a home or a holiday home. A mortgage planner in Bellevue is well known for their commitment and dedication to help you with your mortgage implementation, increasing your cashflow and development or strategies related to home equity.

Thursday, December 18, 2014

Bellevue certified liability advisor is the right advisor for you


There are many certified liability advisors out there who will advise you on what to do with your liability. But only few of them you can find that will understand your needs and yes there is one company that understand your needs bellevue certified liability advisor is the company that is right for you Their Advisors gives good advice on people and encouraging them to remove their liabilities this will not only provide you with the short term benefits but it also gives long term benefits on the client. Other methods that will be used to solve the problems is not recommended because the methods gives only a short term relief and will give you long term problems and hence making the problem a lot worse than before.

Liability settlement is a long process that reduce your liability. You will try to reduce your liability by talking and negotiating with your creditors. You should be able to negotiate correctly and neatly in order for you to have a huge reduction in your liabilities. If your negotiation technique and and style is successful then the creditor might be able to give you a huge percentage of reduction for your liability it may be around fifty to seventy five percent if you are lucky. and because of this you might be able to have more time in paying for your liabilities. Well every person needs a good advisers believe me there are no such thing as a perfect person although the advisers themselves are not perfect but they have studied their field of interest for such a long time and is credible for advising their clients, they will aid us in our financial undertakings. 

It is important to know on what kind of a liability advisor you are looking for this will give you a goal and a common destination on where will be you going you have to know different kinds of financial advisor and determine the good the better and the best of all of them. It is also important to know on how much they will charge,not knowing on how much will they charge might caught you surprise and off guard you can ask the advisors themselves and negotiate their charges for their service. last but not the least it is also important to know if the liability advisors that you have chosen is credible for doing their job. Bellevue certified liability advisor is the company that you can trust on advising in your financial undertakings.