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• Understanding Your Credit Score: Your Credit Score is used by anyone loaning you money. This score is most often known as FICO and serves as a snapshot of your credit history.
• What Moves Mortgage Rates?: The answer is that rates are moved by a number of related factors.
• Home Equity Loans: The Three-Day Cancellation Rule. The Truth In Lending Act gives you three days to reconsider a signed credit agreement and cancel the deal without penalty.

Featured Lenders

The lenders below offer free online quotes and loan applications for mortgages, home loans and refinancing.

Quicken Loans: The easiest way to get a home loan. Quicken Loans is the leading online home mortgage lender and offers simple, convenient and quick home loans.

Will WaMu customers accept Chase?
With WaMu on its way to the graveyard of failed banks, customers will have to decide if they like JP Morgan Chase.

Video: How to compare mortgage offers
When shopping for a mortgage, compare rates as well as fees.

States offer foreclosure rescue loans
More states may soon offer mortgage refinancing programs. Though limited in scope, they do provide another option.

Map of state housing finance authority sites
Facing foreclosure and seeking state assistance? Use this map to locate your housing finance authority Web site.

Mortgage rates rise in volatile week
Mortgage rates went up again in a volatile week marked by political tumult.

Rate Trend Index -- Mortgages
Each week, Bankrate.com surveys experts to gauge which way interest rates are headed on mortgages -- a vital tool if you're about to buy a home.