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PERL Podcast 65 / Retirement Planning for ages 55+

Sandy Marshall — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:12:56 +0000

Planning for retirement is a primary goal for all Americans – and for those in the 55+ age range, the notion of planning for the future is becoming a fast reality. Bob Mecca, author and principal at Robert A. Mecca & Associates, joins Alex Margulis, Mortgage Advisor with PERL Mortgage, in part three in a series of podcasts about retirement planning. Enjoy! For more podcasts, visit the PERL archives.

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PERL Podcast 64 / Retirement Planning for ages 36-55

Sandy Marshall — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:01:49 +0000

Planning for retirement is a primary goal for all Americans – and for those in the 36-55 age range, the notion of planning for the future is becoming a fast reality. Bob Mecca, author and principal at Robert A. Mecca & Associates, joins Alex Margulis, Mortgage Advisor with PERL Mortgage, in part two in a series of podcasts about retirement planning. Enjoy! For more podcasts, visit the PERL archives.

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PERL Podcast 63 / Behind the Buzz

Sandy Marshall — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 23:58:58 +0000

We all know that interest rates are at historic lows, and that everyone’s touting “now” as the time to buy or sell a home. But what’s the real deal behind all the hype – and where can the real deals be found in the Chicagoland market? Ken Dooley, real estate agent with Conlon: A Real Estate Company, joins PERL Founder Ken Perlmutter to discuss buzzworthy “trends” — fact vs. fiction. For more podcasts, visit the PERL archives.

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PERL Podcast 62 / The Secondary Market

Sandy Marshall — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:55:20 +0000

By now, everyone’s heard of the secondary market, which provides liquidity to the primary mortgage market when mortgage bankers and investors team-up to sell and buy existing mortgages. But how do mortgage companies actually work with players in the secondary market? I recently sat down with Jeremy Gannon, Secondary Marketing Manager at PERL Mortgage, discusses the concept of the secondary market. For more podcasts, visit the PERL archives.

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PERL Podcast 61 / Retirement Planning for ages 21-35

Sandy Marshall — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:52:19 +0000

Taking the time to sketch out a realistic retirement plan is important — but not always urgent. Bob Mecca, author and principal at Robert A. Mecca & Associates, joins Alex Margulis, Mortgage Advisor with PERL Mortgage, in the first in a series of podcasts about retirement planning. Enjoy! For more podcasts, visit the PERL archives.

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PERL Podcast 60 / Estate Planning

Sandy Marshall — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:48:20 +0000

I rarely think about estate planning — but always feel like I should. And after sitting down with Lindsey Markus on the podcast, now I really think I should. She’s an attorney concentrating in estate planning and asset protection at Chuhak and Tecson, P.C. and joins Alex Margulis, Mortgage Advisor with PERL Mortgage. For more podcasts, visit the PERL archives.

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PERL Podcast 59 / Condos for College Students

Nick Keenan — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 23:38:22 +0000

A few years ago, before I got interested in the marketing side of things in the financial business, I was a loan originator in Illinois — and was surprised to learn about a product referred-to as a “Kiddie Condo.” With a kiddie condo, a parent could basically buy a condo and give it to their child. Nowadays, this is becoming trendy near colleges in Chicago — particularly DePaul University, which is a stone’s throw from Premier Properties. I sat down with Judy Pettas, Principal at Premier, and Ken Perlmutter, PERL Founder, to talk about investment homes for college students. For more podcasts, visit the PERL archives.

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PERL Podcast 58 / Mortgage Operations

Sandy Marshall — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:39:08 +0000

When I started working as a loan originator career at PERL Mortgage in 2004, one of the first people I knew was a guy named Ben Glazer, a former guitarist in a well-known Chicago-based band and part-time loan officer himself. He’s since been internally promoted numerous times and is now the Director of Operations at PERL, and I thought it’d be interesting to ask him all about his job and how a mortgage company actually works — and to have him explain PERL’s in-house operations and relationships with lenders. I hope you enjoy it. For more podcasts, visit the PERL archives.

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PERL Podcast 57 / Current Interest Rates

Sandy Marshall — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:38:33 +0000

In today’s real estate and lending environment, everyone’s saying that rates are “historically low” — but what does this really mean? And how do rates vary from, say, a 30-year fixed product to a 5/1 ARM, or from a conventional to a jumbo loan? And what is a jumbo loan, anyway? On this episode of the podcast, I visited with Barry Schwartz, a mortgage adviser at PERL, to talk about the in’s and out’s of rate fluctuation. We hope it’s informative. For more podcasts, visit the PERL archives.

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PERL Podcast 56 / Online Content

Sandy Marshall — Thu, 20 May 2010 16:25:16 +0000

A wide variety of relevant information flourishes through social media outlets, real estate professionals are evaluating what’s actually bringing value to clients and associates. On this episode of the podcast, I sat down with PERL Founder Ken Perlmutter and Ken Dooley, agent with Conlon: A Real Estate Company, to discuss social media content and the best methods of sorting and disseminating relevant information. Enjoy! For more podcasts, visit the PERL archives.

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