This has got to be good advertising for our local tourism industry.

Outside Magazine ranked Wilmington among a list of Best Towns – “the finest places you’d ever want to call home.”

Similar to Charleston: southern charm, a 300-year-old harbor, ample seafood. But what sets Wilmington (pop. 106,500 …

Weekly Mortgage Newsletter Week of Sept. 18, 2011 Mortgage Market Commentary Reminiscent of the days when needles skipped backwards and replayed a line from a song over and over, mortgage rates set a new record low again last week. Economic news was similar to what we have been seeing for …

Mortgage rates managed again to set record low rates last week. While concerns over financial issues

in Europe once more drove money to the relative security of US Treasuries, there was little to get

excited about here in the US. As expected, the President presented a plan to Congress to …

After much soul-searching and working the numbers, you decided to put your home on the market. You may be selling to change cities for a job or are needing to downsize. Regardless of the reason, this is a big and important decision!

The time …

Are the first 90-seconds the most important?

Tammy Lenski, the conflict resolution expert of Conflict Zen, recently turned us on to a very interesting concept promoted by Phil Gerbyshak and pioneered by Jim Fannin, called "The 90-Second relationship Rule."

Excerpted from from Phil's blog post on the subject:

If …

Annual Fee and Decreased Upfront Fee Effective October 1, 2011!

Please note two very important changes that are scheduled to take effect with loans obligated on or after October 1, 2011.  The changes are as follows: (1) An annual fee of 0.3 percent will be charged on all …

When people are looking for a new place to live, they usually want to know some key facts beyond cost and number of rooms: Most notably, they are curious about what is in the neighborhood and what their commute would be like. In fact, over three quarters of home shoppers …