Karen Boies

Mortgage Planner

  • Risks of Having Your Son or Daughter Co Sign

    Transcript of Video: Hey, everybody, it’s Rowan Smith at the Mortgage Centre. I want to talk today about something that happens very frequently, which is two parents looking to buy a piece of property, and maybe they can’t quite qualify for it. So they look to stick it into their child’s name as well or

  • File Your Taxes if You Are Self Employed!!!

    Transcript of Video: Hi, everyone. It’s Rowan Smith from the Mortgage Centre. Today’s blog post is going to be very brief. If you’re self-employed, file your 2009 taxes. If you haven’t filed them at this point in the year – and I don’t care when your fiscal year end is; I’m talking about your personal

  • Former Grow Ops – The Noose Gets Tighter

    Transcript of Video Blog: Hi, everyone. It’s Rowan Smith from the Mortgage Centre. I want to talk today about the ever-tightening noose that’s slowly closing around the neck of former marijuana grow-op properties. Now these properties in the past, we always had some credit unions and some smaller institutions that really had more of a