Benchmark Mortgage Is Helping to Educate Veterans About The Benefits Available to Them

Many veterans and active-duty service members are unaware of the benefits available to them through VA financing, and Benchmark Mortgage is setting out to change that.

Eric Almquist of Benchmark Mortgage recently joined us for another great discussion about the lending side of real estate. This time, we discussed a topic that Benchmark Mortgage happens to specialize in: VA financing.

According to Eric, many veterans and active-duty service members are, unfortunately, unaware of the extent of their benefits through VA financing. The VA does a great job in providing benefits, but could use some assistance in educating people on what those benefits actually entail. This is where Eric and his fellow lending professionals at Benchmark Mortgage come in.

Benchmark Mortgage is actually on a mission right now to become the No. 1 VA lending company in the country. As part of this goal, the lending professionals at Benchmark Mortgage have realized that they should be asking every veteran and active duty service member they work with about how well they understand their benefits. “You can’t assume that they know what their benefits are,” says Eric.

You can reach Eric for more information by phone at (402) 933-1141 or by emailing him at eric.almquist@benchmark.us.

Also, if you’re interested in doing your own research on VA financing before speaking with Eric, check out this great resource:

Link: https://ericalmquist.benchmark.us/the-veterans-home-front/


And, as always, if you have any other questions or would like to speak about 
your real estate goals, feel free to give us a call or send us an email. We look
forward to hearing from you soon.

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Do Short-Term Rates Influence Mortgage Rates?

Interest rates are on the rise, and today we’ll be getting to the bottom of why this is taking place and why it matters to you.

Many people are wondering what’s going on with interest rates today. To help answer this, I recently sat down with Eric Almquist of Benchmark Mortgage to discuss this critical subject.

According to Eric, it’s been some time since we’ve seen conditions like those we’re seeing now. The Federal Reserve, which meets once every six weeks, is currently in a tightening cycle. Recently, they’ve been making adjustments to short-term rates with the intention of suppressing potential future inflation.

However, while it is true that short-term rates are set to rise once more before the end of 2018, this does not mean that mortgage rates will be directly impacted.

So though increases in short-term rates may ultimately lead to a slow increase of long-term rates, this is more of a correlative happening than a causal one. All it truly indicates is that our market is beginning to balance out. In fact, an increase of mortgage rates is generally the result of another positive shift—like the drop in unemployment.

In short, everything in our market is connected. Also, rates today are still historically low. This means it’s still a great time to buy. All of these conditions are both relative and cyclical.

If you have any other questions or would like more information from Eric, feel free to reach out to him at (402) 933-1141 or send him an email at eric.almquist@benchmark.us.

And, as always, if you have anything you’d like to ask me or my team about, please give us a call or send us an email. We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Know anyone who's interested in building a home? 

If you have any friends, family, or co-workers who are looking to own their first or second home - would you forward this message to them? We'll be happy to show them our eight new construction home plans along with the benefits of owning a Charleston Home so they can make a decision that's right for them.