We all are obviously aware that the world record for most simultaneous snow angels is held by North Dakota, but we don’t generally think...

Did you know that the word mortgage comes from the Old French (spoken language from the 8th century to the 14th century in Northern...

Last week I had the opportunity to visit our corporate office in Pennington, NJ. I felt the pressures of doing business on the road but...

Earlier this week, our CEO, Rich Weidel sent me a list of differences between what makes someone an amateur versus what makes someone a...

As I sat down to right the blog this morning I began struggling with the very question that I pose in the title. What is the American...

First and foremost, I would like to apologize for the delay in getting the blog back up and running. As I mentioned in my last post we’ve...

As you’ve probably noticed in the past few weeks our blog posting has become a bit irregular. You can blame it on a variety of different...

$8,957. That was the per loan cost to originate a mortgage in Q1 of 2018. We haven’t seen the costs this high since 2013 – 2014 and it...

Last Thursday, Ginnie Mae announced their new stipulations for lenders originating VA refinances. Under the new guides, all refi’s...

I want to thank our very own Linda Booker for contributing and bringing an important topic to the forefront in today’s blog. Enjoy! MJ...

Before we get into our newest message from our CEO… I’d like to shout out the country of Italy for creating some political turmoil. You...

In February 1976 Maxine Nightingale’s version of “Right Back Where We Started From” hit #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 list… so what’s that...

Yesterday, the leader of the free world did what he tends to so often… talk. However, what he said (meeting with North Korea probably...

How was your weekend? For me, it was jammed packed… after finishing up a long week, the team and I took in a few libations at a local...

It is rare in our industry for everyone to be having the same conversation. So many people and businesses are involved in the housing...

Over the past week or so we’ve diverted our attention off the details of the mortgage industry to discuss more whimsical topics… like the...

In 2009, Brian O’Neill wrote a book title, The Paris of Appalachia: Pittsburgh in the Twenty-first Century. He leads off the book with...

In March we heard reports that Amazon is quietly looking to hire the head of their new mortgage division… like the search for their HQ2...

First and foremost, sorry for the corny title this morning. Over the past few months it’s been increasingly difficult to find up beat...

Yesterday, the team here at Princeton Mortgage (Pittsburgh) ran the 10th Annual Pittsburgh Marathon. I must say that for five guys that...