Tumwater Homebuyer Class


Please join me and DeAnna Franklin from Franklin Home Team for our home buyer “lunch and learn” in Tumwater. We will be covering all you need to know about buying a home in today’s market in 2 hours over lunch including: [Read more…]

Looking for Affordable Housing? Check out Greater Tacoma!

If you’re looking to buy your first home, you may have to expand your horizon to find a home that’s more affordable. When I bought my first home many years ago, I wound up with a small rambler in Northeast Tacoma. We used an FHA mortgage with a 3.5% down payment (you do NOT need 20% down to buy a home). At the time, I was working in downtown Seattle at the Columbia Center and it was a heck of a commute…but I was so proud to own a home. We only owned it for a couple of years before we were able to sell it and use the appreciation to buy our next “move up” home. [Read more…]

NEW Down Payment Assistance Program

We have added a new down payment assistance program where eligible home buyers can receive up to 100% financing. This program is not limited to first time home buyers and there are no income limits with an FHA mortgage as the first lien. Would you like more good news? The down payment assistance is in the form of a second mortgage with a 5-year forgivable option OR a 10-year repayable option.

Here’s more: [Read more…]

Is Your Low Rate Stopping You from Buying Your Next Home?

Many Americans took advantage of the extra low rates that were available during the pandemic years. Some may be feeling trapped at having a rate in the 3% range since we’ve returned to a more historically “normal” range. [Read more…]

Do You Have Student Loans?

If you have student loans that have been on hold for the past three years, your payments are about to resume. Some have replaced the student loan payments they would of had the past few years with new debts, such as car loans, maybe a new home or higher credit card debts. There is no doubt that the “pause” being over may impact many American families. [Read more…]

Should You Wait to Buy A Home?

If you’ve been considering buying a home or if you’re a real estate agent who is working with clients who are on the fence about buying; please check out my latest resource page: Should You Wait to Buy a Home (mortgageporter.loans)

I have prepared various scenarios that compare renting to buying a home as well as a report on the cost of waiting.

Of course, I’m more than happy to prepare scenarios to help you decide if you should wait to buy a home now or rent. Please reach out to me if I can be of any assistance!

Are You a Co-Signer on a Student Loan?

When Congress resolved the latest debt ceiling with the passing of The Financial Responsibility Act of 2023, both parties agreed to stop the forbearance on student loans payments. Federally backed student loan payments have been paused for the past three years due to the pandemic. Payments on student loans are set to resume following this September and many are not going to be prepared for this. [Read more…]

Tired of “Trigger Leads”? Take ACTION NOW!

If you’ve applied for a mortgage, you are probably painfully aware of what it’s like to be a “trigger lead”. When your credit is pulled, the consumer reporting agencies resell your information to lenders. These unfamiliar lenders relentlessly harass consumers via phone calls and even text messages. This is very different than consumers who sign up to receive calls from various lenders when the consumer visits and enters their contact info into “lead generating” websites in search of rate quotes. A person having their credit pulled by a lender they have selected should not involuntarily be subject to having strange lenders contact them. [Read more…]