4 Tips for Finding the Best Online Mortgage Lenders
Online mortgage lenders make borrowing simpler and faster. These four tips will help you get what you need when borrowing a home loan online.
Marilyn Lewis
Marilyn is a former NerdWallet writer focusing on mortgages and homeownership. Her writing has been featured by MSN, The Mercury News and The Providence Journal. She has a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Washington.
Posts by Marilyn Lewis:
What Are VA Loan Closing Costs?
For cash-strapped military borrowers, a VA mortgage can be the answer to a prayer. Eligible military borrowers can get into a new home with no down payment, only a funding…
What Is a Mortgage?
“Mortgage” comes from the Latin word mort, meaning death — as in “this debt is yours until you die.” Mortgages are more flexible than their root word implies, but these…
How Home Improvements Can Increase Your Property Taxes
You transformed your dingy basement into square footage you’ll actually use, with an entertainment room, a guest bedroom and a three-quarter bath. Yay! Dream realized. What’s more, the makeover will…
Granite Countertops Cost: 7 Ways to Save
Cost of Home ImprovementsGranite countertops, durable, high-fashion and low-maintenance, are stars in kitchen and bathroom remodels nationwide. And you don’t need to buy the most expensive granite to get stunning…
6 Tips to Save on the Cost to Paint a House
A fresh coat of paint makes everything it touches seem brand new. But such new beginnings cost real money. Professional painters charge around $4,000 for labor and materials to paint…
Ways to Get the Best Jumbo Mortgage Rates
Just as the name implies, a jumbo mortgage is a massive loan, above the conforming loan limit of $510,400 in most parts of the U.S. Even small decreases in jumbo mortgage…
4 Tips for Finding the Best Online Mortgage Lenders
Technology is changing mortgage lending, making it faster and simpler to get a home loan. You still may have to dig up some documents from your files these days, but…
Documents Needed for a Mortgage Preapproval Letter: A Checklist
Getting preapproved for a mortgage before you go home shopping isn’t required, but it is a good idea, especially in a seller’s market, where competition among buyers is intense. Unlike…
Bethpage Federal Credit Union Mortgage Review 2019
Bethpage Federal Credit Union, as it’s been named since 1974, was established in 1941 when employees of Grumman Corporation, a large aeronautical engineering company, formed Grumman Plant Federal Credit Union.…
