August 2006 Weddings
Dear Community,

Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.

If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.

Thank you.

Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.

Here's a fun poll

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Re: Here's a fun poll

  • I'm thinking credit is not going to be cheap. Bye-bye 0%/low interest offers. Bye-bye 30-yr fixed mortgages with 6 or 7% interest. Sucks, we were looking forward to re-financing our car because we got such a crappy rate.
  • Weren't rates in the teens during the 80s?  I shall be non-lazy and Google this...

    EDIT:

    According to this graph, nearly 16% in 1981.

    http://www.erate.com/mortgage_rates_history.htm

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    "As of page 2 this might be the most boring argument ever. It's making me long for Rape Day." - Mouse
  • Ugh...depressing.  You will have to let us know how it goes.

  • 80% down. If you're lucky, 60%.
  • I'm curious. I have a coworkers scheduled to close on a townhouse on the 10th. He and his wife both started new jobs within the past 3 months, and she has no credit history because she is a Japanese citizen and has only lived here for 3 years...

    They are on pins and needles to see whether their mortgage will go through...on paper they look worse than they actually are. So far they haven't had a problem though.

    If you guys have good credit and work histories and decent savings, I'd bet banks will still be happy to see you. Where interest rates will go is anyone's guess.

    "We tend to be patronizing about the poor in a very specific sense, which is that we tend to think,
  • Other: They will talk you out of a mortgage and into becoming part-owner of the mortgage company.?
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