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Columbus Mortgage

So far there has been a tremendous response from Mortgage Lenders wanting to be a part of our recommended mortgage lender website for Columbus Ohio.

We are looking for Columbus Mortgage lenders that have experience, integrity, knowledge, skills and testimonials to be a recommended mortgage lender, company or broker.

There is no cost to be on the website as a recommended mortgage lender. You do have to apply and we will review your application to determine if you meet our criteria.

If you would like to be considered, please apply here.

There is no Columbus Day Parade in Columbus Ohio. There has not been a Columbus Day Parade in Columbus in years.*

Instead there is Experience Columbus Days... we can play in our own backyard... visitors can come play in our backyard... thanks to Experience Columbus, you can visit popular Columbus venues at discounted prices. Experience Columbus Days - Come Play in our Backyard Experience Columbus Days runs Friday through Monday.

If you need a parade to make your Columbus Day weekend complete there is a Parade on Sunday afternoon for the Columbus Italian Festival (Columbus was Italian....) 2:00 P.M.

If you need to do something downtown on Columbus Day....

Go to the Columbus Day Wreath Laying Ceremony - the 53rd annual at the Columbus statue at City Hall.

Visit the Santa Maria on the Scioto River

Last year on ColumbusBestBlog.com on Columbus Day I posted "Happy Columbus Day" and got a comment.

"I am here from NYC and there there is a huge parade this is the largest city in America named for Columbus where’s the beef!? no celebration? no festivities ? nothing in the Dispatch?”

No whining about there NOT being a Columbus Day Parade... no matter what city you are from or how big your cities Columbus Day Parade is.

.* Who works in downtown Columbus? City Employees.... Franklin County Employees. State Employees... even Federal Employees... Columbus Day is a federal holiday many have the day off...they are not downtown because it is Columbus Day.

The 2008 Columbus Italian Festival starts Friday and runs through Sunday.

St. John the Baptist Italian Catholic Church sponsors the event yearly. 2008 is the 29th annual Columbus Italian Festival. The event coincides with the Columbus Day Weekend, which is celebrated as Experience Columbus Days in Columbus Ohio.

Simply Italian is the theme for 2008

• live entertainment
• open-air markets
• Italian dancing
• children's area (zona bambini)
  
• Italian food
• pizza cook-off
• cooking demonstrations
• American-Italian Idol vocal contest
• bocce ball tournaments
• big screen TVs for sporting events (OSU etc.) bring your couch potato
• historical display on Christopher Columbus
• Columbus Italian Parade - Sunday, October 12th, 2008 @ 2pm
• Conversational Italian Instruction FREE

and more....

St. John the Baptist Church is located at 720 Hamlet St, Columbus, Ohio.

I went to the Columbus Italian Festival in 2007 for the first time in many years and had a lot of fun. The smell of the food is overpowering...

Italian Village is a nice place to visit for me.

Experience Columbus Days - Come Play in our Backyard - Columbus Ohio

Columbus Ohio Mortgage Lenders

I am looking for Mortgage Lenders in Columbus Ohio that would like to be added to my free directory of Columbus Ohio Mortgage Lenders at www.CentralOhioMortgageLenders.com

My goal is to have a comprehensive list of Mortgage Lenders in the Columbus Ohio area, based on their service area, that home buyers can refer to in order to find a lender in their area. My goal is to have a good 5-6 in each area so that the home buyer can shop around a bit.

I have broken Columbus up into several areas, including: North Columbus, South Columbus, East Columbus, West Columbus, Downtown Columbus and Central Columbus.

If you are a Mortgage Lender who would like to be added to my Columbus Ohio Mortgage Lender website, please Apply Here.

If you are a home buyer looking for a Mortgage Lender / Broker in the Columbus Ohio area, be sure to check out the website to find one near you!

Not all mortgage lenders will be added to this directory. Only if you have the experience, integrity, knowledge, skills and testimonials to be a recommended mortgage lender. You can apply at http://www.centralohiomortgagelenders.com/applyhere.asp. Some of the Mortgage Lenders that we have found that meet our criteria so far are Tony Waldon with First Ohio Home Finance and Mike Rozler with Affinity Group Mortgage.

Columbus is one of the ten "safest" housing markets in the US for fall 2008 according to PMI. Count down or up from the bottom of the list… according to PMI (Private Mortgage Insurance) there is less than 1% chance of lower home prices for the Columbus market in 2 years. Contrast those to the housing markets on the top of the PMI list with over a 99% chance (in the paragrah below)

The PMI List - Fall 2008

1. Fort Worth-Arlington; TX
2. Dallas-Plano-Irving; TX
3. Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown; TX
4. Pittsburgh; PA
5. San Antonio; TX
6. Memphis, TN-MS-AR
7. Indianapolis-Carmel; IN
8. Kansas City; MO-KS
9. Austin-Round Rock; TX
10. Columbus; OH

Are they all tied? All have less than 1% percent chance of prices being lower within the next two years Also less than 1% chance of lower prices…. St. Louis, MO-IL, Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis; WI, Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord; NC-SC, Cincinnati-Middletown; OH-KY-IN, Denver-Aurora; CO. Is there a difference in the list… is Columbus a riskier >1% than cities one through nine? And a lot better than Cinci who would be #15 on a list?

Good news for Cleveland... just 1.1%…

Those 10 riskiest housing markets in the US now? The ten riskiest according to PMI with over 96% chance of decrease are : Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach; FLA,Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario; CA, Orlando-Kissimmee; FL, Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall; FL, Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater; FL, Las Vegas-Paradise; NV, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale; CA, Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine; CA, Jackksonville; FL and Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale; AZ.

Visit the PMI study for everything in between if you are not from Columbus or one of these markets.

U.S. Market Risk Index - 2nd Quarter 2008 Pdf