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Debt Free is the New Sexy
A few of us here at MortgageKeeper live and work from Minneapolis...home of long winters, glorious (but short) summers, and the Mall of America. Today at the Mall, one of us was people-watching. What we saw was a twenty-something sporting a charcoal colored tee shirt...
A Debt-Free College Education? Persistence is Key
We were moved by an article on the Opinion page of The Wall Street Journal late last month. Entitled, "It's Possible to Graduate Debt-Free. Here's How" it details one young woman's persistent effort to finish college without debt. She succeeded, but the work it...
Foreclosure is Down, Home Prices are Up. So Why is MK Breaking Records?
It's a question we here at MortgageKeeper have asked ourselves. The Housing Crisis seems to be easing. Foreclosure is down. For sale signs in our neighborhoods are replaced by "sold" signs a lot faster these days. So why is the demand for MortgageKeeper reaching...
Single Women, Single Men, and Homeownership
I have many single friends--men and women. If I were to generalize among them, I'd say my single male friends tend to rent their homes, while my single female friends overwhelmingly own. The National Association of Realtors has discovered the same thing. Their...
Recovery Brings More Foreclosures
As we continue to wonder if this recovery is here to stay, the insightful folks at RealtyTrac have shown us statistics that renew concern about foreclosure rates. Foreclosures apparently are on the rise, as banks attend to a foreclosure backlog, and can repossess...
Celebrating National Homeownership Month
Even as more and more Americans choose to rent their homes, homeownership still seems to be an ideal for which we strive. And for good reason--it builds and creates the strongest communities. We've pulled together some of our favorite celebrations of the occasion on...
