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Greetings and welcome to my website!

I am a financial services professional dedicated to helping my clients to protect their assets, build wealth, plan for retirement and to leave a legacy to their heirs through the use of innovative insurance products and services.

I have over 12 years of experience in the insurance field as well as a background in banking and finance. I take a consultative approach with my clients and make sure that I look at their total financial picture. I educate as well as advise my clients on the best products and strategies to put in place in order to meet and exceed their financial and retirement goals.

My hope is that the information that I share on this website will help in some small way to make your financial future brighter!

I work with clients in the areas of life insurance and annuities, disability income, long term care, critical illness, medicare advantage & medicare supplement insurance.

I would consider it a privilege if you chose to become one of my clients. For a no obligation needs analysis of your overall insurance needs, contact me here.

Thank you,
Steve Baker

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7 Steps to Avoid Foreclosure

If you have missed fewer than three mortgage payments or are anticipating that you might have to miss them in a month or so because of life circumstances, put your smarts in action and implement this simple plan to avoid foreclosure. Don’t confuse simple with easy; avoiding foreclosure can take time, patience, money and effort, but [...]

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac will tack new fee onto home loans next year

Low-credit borrowers aren’t the only people who’ll pay a price for the rising number of mortgage defaults. Ordinary homebuyers will take a hit as well, through higher fees at closing.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored companies that back 40 percent of American mortgages, have decided to impose a new fee of one-quarter of [...]

Foreclosures jump 30 percent in 3rd quarter 2007

Congress, White House debate solutions to help people keep their homes

By John W. Schoen
Senior Producer
MSNBC

As Congress and the White House continue to work toward solutions to help embattled homeowners, home foreclosure filings took a big jump in the third quarter, according to the latest data from real estate Web site RealtyTrac.

Foreclosure actions were reported [...]

Who are the winners in mortgage mess?

I found this article on MSNBC and thought it was worth sharing…

The financial markets are pretty skittish these days as banks and other mortgage lenders continue to report big losses from mortgage loans gone bad. But in any market, one person’s loss is often another person’s gain. So where did all those “losses” from bad mortgages [...]

Facing foreclosure? Fight is better than flight

Financially stressed homeowners have options instead of just moving out

It’s the toxic fallout from the “subprime meltdown”: More and more Americans are losing their homes to foreclosure.

Sadly, many could escape this fate if they’d just talk to their lenders. Instead, they hunker down and hope against hope that something will happen before the [...]

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