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Recent Leavenworth Real Estate Articles

Geordie Romer, CRS, e-PRO: Real Estate Agent in Leavenworth, WA

We do most of our blogging over on our Leavenworth Real Estate blog, IcicleCreekRealEstate.com

Here are some of the recent articles you may have missed if you don't yet have a FREE subscription that will email you the articles as soon as they come out.


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Cashmere WA sold homes

Geordie Romer, CRS, e-PRO: Real Estate Agent in Leavenworth, WA

Every month we post info about Cashmere Real Estate on our Icicle Creek Real Estate website.

Readers tell us that they find the compilation of sold homes some of the most useful info:

Cashmere WA sold homes October 2009

Cashmere WA sold homes September 2009

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Sold Homes for Leavenworth Fall 2009

Geordie Romer, CRS, e-PRO: Real Estate Agent in Leavenworth, WA

Every month we list the homes that have sold in Leavenworth on our Leavenworth Real Estate blog. For some reason this is the only place that you can get this helpful info. That's right, you can't get it from Trulia or Zillow quite yet.

Here are the articles for:

October Sold Homes

September Sold Homes

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Hog Loppet Ski Tour 2010

Geordie Romer, CRS, e-PRO: Real Estate Agent in Leavenworth, WA

I'm proud to announce that Icicle Creek Real Estate is going to be a sponsor of the 2010 Hog Loppet Ski Tour

Hog Loppet is a 30k tour (not a race) from Mission Ridge ski area to Blewett Pass. My dad has come over to ski the "Hog" but Allyson and I haven't made it a priority.

This year is different! We are proud to be the title sponsor of this event put on by the Leavenworth Winter Sports Club.

As the snow is just starting to accumulate here in Leavenworth it's a great time to start planning. Wax up the skis and put February 27th 2010 on the calender.

Loan Modification Chelan, Bridgeport, Coulee City, Washington

10-27-09
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Loan Modification Chelan, Bridgeport, Coulee City, Washington

Chelan, Bridgeport, and Coulee City, Washington homeowners have witnessed the value of their homes fall lower than the amount they owe on their mortgage loans. Moreover, the average income has shrunk to make mortgage payments often impossible to afford for homeowners facing other financial hardships. As interest rates rise with adjustable rates jump to high fixed rates, and home values plummeting, refinancing is no longer a sound option, leaving the necessity for a home loan modification.

Most Washington homeowners now qualify for hundreds of dollars in monthly savings with a loan modification under President Obama’s “Making Home Affordable” plan. Obama's HAMP program demands that a homeowner’s mortgage payment cannot exceed 31% of their gross income. Since most home loans exceed 31%, the majority of borrowers are now technically eligible for HAMP assistance.

Homeowners can immediately determine what your current mortgage debt-to-income is and how much your monthly payment may be reduced if you qualify for Obama's Loan Modification Program.

A loan modification is something a growing number of Washington homeowners are exploring in order to save their homes from foreclosure. Sadly, a growing number of borrowers who gave up completely and let their homes go into foreclosure are now regretting it.

Loan Modification:

  • Lowers the homeowner's monthly payments;
  • Lowers the loan's interest rate;
  • Swaps a rising adjustable rate for an affordable fixed rate;
  • Reduces the principle balance of the property;
  • Corrects payment delinquencies and defaults;
  • Adjusts the length of the loan terms

Often times, it is better for the borrower to default on their loan payments and credit cards than to go into foreclosure. When a borrower has let their home go into foreclosure, it can take at least 10 years for them to recover financially. For many who are now unable to buy anything on credit for a decade, this has become one of the worst financial decisions of their life. Even after the foreclosure is removed from their financial history, borrowers acquiring an affordable rate will be even more difficult.

Eligible Chelan, Bridgeport, and Coulee City, WA homeowners now enduring financial hardships such as credit card debts, loss in income, unemployment, a bad mortgage, or other financial circumstances, can get approved for a 4% mortgage refinancing and modification plan under President Obama’s “Making Home Affordable” plan.

Keeping all of this in mind, homeowners are scrambling to avoid foreclosure with the help of a modified home loan. Home loan modification allows you to lower your monthly payments, lower your interest, lower your principal, adjust the term of the loan, or any combination of these. Your home is the greatest financial commitment you are going to make in your life, and acquiring secure and successful loan modification.

Mortgage mitigation and lowered interest rates can prevent homeowners from being foreclosed on, help homeowners who are in the foreclosure process, and prevent mortgage defaults, by saving hundreds of dollars per month on your home loan payments.

Chelan, Bridgeport, and Coulee City, Washington homeowners will be able to save millions by getting a home loan modification or mortgage refinance using President Obama’s “Making Home Affordable” plan. Even borrowers who have been denied a refinancing or loan modify in the past have been having success with Obama’s mortgage refinance bailout plan.