DISQUS

VentureBeat: http://venturebeat.com/2009/03/02/demo-home-account-recommends-mortagages-without-sales-motivation/

  • Gray · 9 months ago
    Wow! I'm in the mortgage biz and this application could be a game changer. Unfortunately, it doesn't bode well for me and my professional breathen.
  • Michael · 9 months ago
    Don't understand how this is different from the million other websites and services offering essentially the same thing: seems like just another mortgage shopping engine.
  • Sammy · 9 months ago
    The service appears dramatically different...the other sites either are owned by banks only selling their product OR are lead-gen firms spamming your name to hundreds of brokers eager to call you at 8PM at home
  • Kelly Rusk · 9 months ago
    SmartHippo is a consumer-centric mortgage comparison site that's been around since Sept. 2007. We allow consumers to anonymously search rates and write reviews about lenders. Lenders can join and post rates free, but may have to deal with the scrutiny of the community.

    Home-Account.com is an interesting idea, but it is not the first or only mortgage site with the consumer's best interest in mind. This is a good thing however, it's about time the financial industry adapted to the changes happening online.
  • Kelly @ Quizzle · 9 months ago
    No-doubt, transparency is key for today's Internet consumer. But charging $9.95 every month to keep an eye on your mortgage isn’t exactly “stimulating the economy."

    We agree with you that Quicken Loans is a great competitor on the mortgage front with lots of tools for helping clients get into the right mortgage. However, Home-Account seems to be much more closely modeled after our popular new home & money site called Quizzle.

    Then again, Quizzle appears to go above and beyond Home-account – offering a credit report & score, home value report, mortgage recommendations and a budget tool. ALL FREE. No fees, no strings attached. And we also noticed Home Account asks for your social security number…Quizzle doesn’t.

    Getting good mortgage recommendations is a valuable thing – but in this day and age, people are absolutely entitled to that type of thing for free.
  • Tony · 9 months ago
    Hold on there....there is a big, big difference in Quizzle and Home-Account....Quizzle is a feeder for Quicken loans which has a financial interest in the closing of the transaction a for a while, the long term debt of the consumer.

    Quicken loans is the 'man behind the curtain'....at Home-Account there is no man nor is there even a curtain!
  • SO · 8 months ago
    wow, interest idea, thank you so much