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Compliments of President | NMLS #: 297154 Company NMLS #: 232582 Mortgage Market News and Insight For the Weekend of August 10th, 2024 Can Someone Steal Your Title – An Update I wrote an article last year after being bombarded by commercials on radio and TV, advertising a service to help prevent property title theft. …
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Compliments of President | NMLS #: 297154 Company NMLS #: 232582 Mortgage Market News and Insight For the Weekend of July 27th, 2024 Hawaii’s Most Read Mortgage Publication for 16 Years Volume 16 – Issue 44 Maui Vacation Rental Update The Maui Planning Commission this week succumbed to the loudest voices in the room and…
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Volume 16 – Issue 43 President | NMLS #: 297154 Company NMLS #: 232582 Who Owns the Strip? Readers always ask how I come up with content each week. Some weeks are more difficult than others, but this week a run-in with a neighbor was all I needed to answer a question a lot of…
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Mortgage Market News and Insight Compliments of President | NMLS #: 297154 Hawaii Mortgage Company, Inc. Company NMLS #: 232582 Phone: 808.988.6622 alan@hawaiimortgage.net Splitting the Baby Means Every Side Comes Out a Loser I wrote recently about the intriguing story of a developer that hired a contractor to build a house for him in Puna…
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Mortgage Market News and Insight Compliments of President | NMLS #: 297154 Hawaii Mortgage Company, Inc. Company NMLS #: 232582 Phone: 808.988.6622 alan@hawaiimortgage.net Short-Term Vacation Rentals – Vital Economic Contributor The Travel Technology Association and Hawaii economic consultant Kloninger & Sims released the results of a study they conducted on the economic impact short-term vacation…
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Mortgage Market News and Insight Compliments of President | NMLS #: 297154 Hawaii Mortgage Company, Inc. Company NMLS #: 232582 Phone: 808.988.6622 alan@hawaiimortgage.net Condo Insurance Issue Hit Home I received a letter this week from the Board of the Association for an investment condo I own. It seems that our project in East Oahu has…
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Mortgage Market News and Insight Compliments of President | NMLS #: 297154 Hawaii Mortgage Company, Inc. Company NMLS #: 232582 Phone: 808.988.6622 alan@hawaiimortgage.net Something’s Funny with the Employment Numbers The Bureau of Labor Statistics released their much-anticipated Jobs Report this past Friday. The Jobs Report, along with the two inflation reports (CPI and PCE) tell…
Read MoreCompliments of President | NMLS #: 297154 Company NMLS #: 232582 Mortgage Market News and Insight For the Weekend of May 11th, 2024 Government Failure Places Blame on Vacation Rental Owners We are now 9 months post the horrific fire on Maui. People are still living in hotels the government is paying $1,000 a day…
Read MoreCompliments of President | NMLS #: 297154 Company NMLS #: 232582 Mortgage Market News and Insight For the Weekend of May 4th, 2024 Is One Lender “Better” than Another? (Chapter 2) I wrote a month ago explaining how one lender may be able to provide you with financing, while another lender comes back with either…
Read MoreCompliments of President | NMLS #: 297154 Company NMLS #: 232582 Mortgage Market News and Insight For the Weekend of April 6th, 2024 Is One Lender Better than Another? What do you think are the attributes that make the lender your friend recommends better than the lender your agent referred you to, or vice-versa? …
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