Know Your Loan Ingredients! Truth In Labeling For Borrowers

Part I of a Three Part Series
When the FDA required food manufacturers to reveal the ingredients, nutritional value, calorie count and net weight on their product labeling, the big winner was the consumer. The consumer wins again now that Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has set a standard for loan transparency. [...]

San Jose Jury Recognizes the Severity of TBI

September 21, 2009: San Francisco
Traumatic Brain Injury, Trucking Accident: $49,123,375.87
Recognizing the staggering costs of healthcare associated with traumatic brain injury, a San Jose jury awarded Drew Dakota Bianchi $49,123,375.87 late Monday afternoon. The verdict followed a hotly contested five-week trial involving two truck drivers who collided on State Route 152 (Pacheco Pass), one of whom [...]

California Mesothelioma Lawyers Describe Asbestos Lawsuits

California Mesothelioma Lawyers Describe Asbestos Lawsuits, The Manner in Which Those Contracting Mesothelioma Likely Were Exposed to Asbestos, and How Mesothelioma Attorneys Can Be Certain That the Disease Resulted From Exposure to Asbestos.
By Ray Henke, Senior Trial Lawyer,
California Mesothelioma Lawyers
Our California mesothelioma lawyers can initially consider a potential mesothelioma lawsuit on the basis of the [...]

Travel Cell Phone Solutions for a Changing Economy

By Bob Downs
When planning travel in Europe or around the world many travelers overlook the cost of cell phone use abroad. As a business traveler, student abroad, or an occasional traveler, you don’t want to have to worry about staying in touch with the office, family back home, or traveling companions. Using a rental cell [...]

Taylor Bean & Whittaker: Not Just Another Bank Failure—You May be Affected and Not Know It!

The fact that TB&W was shut down this week did not create an earth-shattering news event.   The reason:   the impact of this bank closure is less like an earthquake than a tsunami—the wave of destruction hasn’t hit the shore yet.  This a behind the scenes implode and as yet has not completely reverberated to the [...]

SINGLEWIDE MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS

Loans are simply harder to get these days if you live in a manufactured home and harder still if that home is a singlewide. In many ways the manufactured home owner is treated as a second class citizen by the lending industry, probably because some of the misconceptions about the quality of construction and the [...]

Roberts’ Customer Service Scores Again

Customer service and economic prices enhance student travel. One of the last things you think of when planning for student travel abroad is cell phone service. Many parents come to find out that their child’s cell phone doesn’t possess the technology to access the cell phone providers in foreign countries. Thankfully, http://roberts-rent-a-phone.com can easily fill [...]

The Truth About Financing in Condominium-Classifed Manufactured Home Parks

Just like all real estate, there is no doubt that the economic decline has impacted values in manufactured home communities.   However, condo parks have been harder hit than the broader community because financing for manufactured homes in condominium-classified parks completely disappeared for the last couple of years.   Except for hard money loans, private financing or [...]

Manufactured Home Loans in Condo Park Communities

Park communities represent the most popular setting for manufactured homes. For loan purposes, lenders generally require that the owner of the home also own the land upon which the home sits. Until recently the park also had to be classified as a owner-owned Subdivision or a Planned Unit Development in order for [...]

Manufactured Home Loans:

What’s the Difference Between a Personal Loan and a Mortgage Loan?
Manufactured homes are an interesting animal to be sure.   It is the only form of housing that can either be classified as Personal Property or Chattel (like a car) or Real Property (like a regular site-built home) and how the distinction is determined can [...]