Mortgage Blog

New Site Launch: Colby Zeka, an established mortage professional based in Wellington (30-minutes from Wichita) Kansas, and writing loans for seven states, including all of Kansas, announced today the launch of a new web site: www.zekaloan.com

Gateway Mortgage Group and Colby Zeka specialize in providing mortgage financing solutions. Gateway has lending programs for all credit situations - Low rates and prices. Colby Zeka has been in business seven years (since 2001). Gateway follows the mission "to increase the financial strength of families by helping them to purchase and use the value of their homes by offering honest and ethical advice and a variety of competitive mortgage products."

The site was designed by Daniel DiGriz at www.mixmysite.com and www.editgeek.com and features free Confidential Reports for site visitors, video, mortgage calculators, Q&A, up-to-date rates, and a variety of other features. The new site went live on 3-8-2008.

Nationwide, the rate of loans entering the foreclosure process hit a never-before-seen 0.83 percent during the fourth quarter, up from 0.54 percent a year ago and 0.78 percent in the third quarter. -- CNNMoney.com

If you're stuck in an expensive ARM, call me right now. We can refinance you into a low Fixed Rate loan. We're doing better than many parts of the country. Don't let the Foreclosure Monster swallow your house whole. Gateway Mortage has all kinds of programs designed for just these situations; if you don't call, you can't know. Give me a ring at the office and tell me your situation. I can help. -- Colby

If you own a business or are a professional, why not?

Linkedin ( www.linkedin.com ) has become as essential for professional as MySpace is for kids. If you have a business and are looking at garnering referrals, Linkedin is a huge benefit.

When most professionals launch a new business or practice, they usually create a database or contact list for people they know who may send them referrals. But usually, only one or two helpful transactions comes out of this. This is partly because these contacts know you're new to the business (not us, of course - we've been here seven years), and people you know are also sometimes worried you'll talk about their business with other people you know (again, something genuine professionals never do).

But Linkedin [ www.linkedin.com ] overcomes this and provides ways to network socially and professionally that make people comfortable and frankly, yield whole new contacts that perhaps you'd forgot you have.