They're talking to not only with the real estate broker but the mortgage broker.
One said his mortgage broker lied to him and overstated his income on his loan application.
The Nationwide's deal was a "really consumer-friendly move" said Ray Boulger at mortgage broker John Charcol .
Your local mortgage broker should be able to refer you to such lenders.
Patricia Valverde, a mortgage broker who had been laid off, thought she was about to lose her home to foreclosure.
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He passed that information on to an acquaintance of his, Kenneth Robinson, who was a mortgage broker in Long Island.
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Ray Boulger, of mortgage broker John Charcol, said that the policies could unclog some of the blockages in the housing market.
She refinanced out of it, but says her mortgage broker pushed her to take another high-interest loan that she couldn't afford.
But in a lawsuit pending in federal court against mortgage broker St.
"These are still fantastic long term value, " said mortgage broker Simon Tyler.
Jonathan Harris, director of mortgage broker Anderson Harris, told the BBC that the Funding for Lending Scheme has helped to push down mortgage rates.
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Conrad said he was also consulting an independent mortgage broker.
When I called mortgage broker Mike Sikora for help, he made an inquiry or two on my behalf and then bowed out, insisting none of the problems were his fault.
No such concern yet for Brian, the hard-charging salesman who is so secretive that his mortgage broker associates have no idea he toils 9 to 5 at another job, he says.
That Orange County mortgage broker (who used to be a pizza delivery guy) can take a class online from the University of Phoenix (APOL) and become a computer engineer in Silicon Valley.
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Mark Harris, chief executive of mortgage broker SPF Private Clients, explained that most mortgages track a lender's standard variable rate, or the base rate, so most are not directly affected by Libor.
Imagine how different the financial climate would be today if these borrowers had been educated on their choices by an unbiased advisor and they fully understood how their mortgage broker was paid.
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In an unrelated case, mortgage broker Robin Knox, who is based in the North East of England, was banned after the FSA found he had exposed 500 customers to the risk of receiving unsuitable advice.
You can also try Web sites like bankrate.com and eloan.com or an independent mortgage broker who can shop around from multiple mortgage companies to find the one that can offer you the best deal.
He doesn't think his hard-won sobriety had anything to do with the show coming to an end, but now that he's famous, he can't see himself falling back on his former career as a mortgage broker.
The case against Ms. Berger, a mortgage broker with her husband at Steel City Mortgage Services near Pittsburgh, PA, had its start when FBI agents went through the trash of real estate appraiser Kenneth Cowden.
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"Borrowers must seek help, preferably before they miss a payment, speaking to their lender or one of the specialist - and free - debt agencies, such as Citizens Advice, " said Jonathan Harris, director of mortgage broker Anderson Harris.
"At the moment predicting monthly house price figures is a little like predicting the weather and it would be foolhardy to talk about a recovery based on one set of data, " said Ashley Brown, director of mortgage broker Moneysprite.
She was a bad mortgage broker.
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Still, at current prices, investing in certain subprime bonds carries "limited downside and possibly substantial upside, " said Joe Walsh, president of Amherst Securities Group, a broker-dealer that focuses on mortgage debt.
When a broker makes four times the commission placing a variable mortgage versus a fixed, what did you think is going to happen?
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In mortgage securitisation, for instance, the lender is supplanted by the broker, the loan originator, the servicer (who collects payments), the investor and the arranger, not to mention the rating agencies and mortgage-bond insurers.
Ms Watt said she was unable to get a mortgage on the high street, so she had to go to a "dodgy broker" - Ms Spence.
John Paulson, the hedge fund manager who minted billions by shorting the mortgage market (apparently with the help of Goldman Sachs), was also big-time short on the broker-dealers as early as January 2007.
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