Monthly Archives: November 2010

I used to study the violin when I was a teenager.  Home alone in the summer practicing it could get boring, so I would imagine walking onstage to the roar of applause as guest concert master at the Moscow Philharmonic, and having to stand and then sit again three times just to calm the ecstatic …

So you have gotten this far.  Congratulations.  Made it through the search for an apartment, the contract negotiations, the shockingly complex financing application with your bank, gotten reference letters from your third grade teacher and the person who sat next to you on the subway for years when you were an intern on Wall Street …

I spend a good part of my day negotiating real estate transactions, contract terms and resolving disputes that arise in the course of a deal.  It’s one of the few good things that came out of the financial collapse of a few years ago:  it allowed me to dust off my negotiating skills and begin …

As though today’s real estate financing market weren’t enough of a minefield, add to the mix. New regulations issued by FNMA, and soon to be enacted similar set by Freddie Mac, require lenders planning on selling loans in the secondary market to do a pre-closing credit check on borrowers before funding the loan. What does …