If you are a home buyer, homeowner or residential real estate sales agent, there should be a law requiring you to read David Reed's new mortgage insider secrets book, "Who Says You Can't Buy a Home?" Written by an experienced mortgage banker, this new book reveals facts most mortgage lenders don't want borrowers to know because such secrets harm lender profits.

Reed is on the side of home loan borrowers as he shares how mortgage lenders view home loan originations.  more...

DEAR BOB: Love your weekly articles, as I have learned so much from them about real estate. But I have a title problem with my home. My wife died almost two years ago. Since then, I have been trying to clear the title to our home into my name alone. But the local recorder of deeds refuses to accept my evidence of her passing, including a certified copy of her death certificate and an affidavit of my survivorship. I am told only the Probate Court can clear my title. Is this true?  more...