Everyone has a story worth telling. I’ve learned this from my time in the mortgage industry and on the radio, having helped thousands of individuals with their mortgages and having talked with thousands more who...

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Summer is allegedly vacation season, but it hasn’t felt that way to me in years. Summer is the busy season for mortgages; kids are out of school or back from college; neighborhoods are bustling with...

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  Natural disasters are a fact of life in Colorado Springs. You can nearly set your watch to them. Every year we are guaranteed at least one moderately destructive hailstorm, one large wildfire, and at...

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  As a radio host, it’s important that I remain assiduously topical. There are times when people aren’t talking about mortgages; it’s rare, but it does happen. In such instances, it’s my duty to contribute...

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Impulse buys are seldom reasonable, but most are at least excusable. The World’s First Flying Tricycle, for example, has a multitude of practical uses. To impulsively buy a house, however, is neither reasonable nor excusable....

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Did you call your mother? Did she remark that she can’t believe it’s snowing in Colorado on Mother’s Day? “Easter, sure, but Mother’s Day?” This seems to be the template for most conversations with mothers:...

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You prepared for it all winter. You dreaded it, accepted it, then bit the bullet and tackled it. You scrubbed the floors, purged the closets, and shook out the rugs. Now—finally!—you feel you’ve finished with...

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