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After writing about the myriad of benefits refinancing your house can have, there are just as many pitfalls to be on the look out for. Some of them can come from outside sources, but just as with most things in life, many of these mistakes can be av…

After writing about the myriad of benefits refinancing your house can have, there are just as many pitfalls to be on the look out for. Some of them can come from outside sources, but just as with most things in life, many of these mistakes can be av…

The objective of last weeks article, “Making Sense of Refinancing” (http://community.portlandneighborhood.com/forum/topics/making-sense-of-refinancing) was to give the basics of the different structures of refinancing: Rate and Term, Limited Cash-Ou…

Whew! What an end to a crazy week! I opened “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” at Broadway Rose Theatre Company, accepted 9 awards for the production of “Into the Woods” I directed at Lakewood Theatre Company, and had several mortgage puzzle pieces that requ…

Did you ever wonder how Mississippi became the next cool neighborhood in Portland? Or why there are new, trendy businesses being opened in neighborhoods that don’t seem to be able to support them? The short and very unsophisticated answer is: Urban…

Two of the strongest indicators of a healthy economy are consumer spending and the housing industry. When consumers are confident that their money is going to continue to flow in a positive direction they spend money. When consumers trust that the h…

Credit scores have always been a very mysterious thing to may people. As stated in my article last week (http://community.portlandneighborhood.com/forum/topics/your-credit-score-what-does-it) it is estimated that 70 percent of Americans don’t know t…