{"id":3442,"date":"2008-07-11T17:55:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T01:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3442"},"modified":"2008-07-11T17:55:02","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T01:55:02","slug":"never-lie-to-a-lender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3442","title":{"rendered":"Never Lie To A Lender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mortgage-Secrets-Borrowers-Must-Learn\/dp\/0470152869\"><strong>I&#8217;m reading this book on mortgage secrets.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gary W. Eldred, PhD, writes:<\/p>\n<p>Secret #11: Never lie to a lender. The application itself reveals your integrity.<\/p>\n<p>Justify hard-to-believe items. Do not try to slip by an applications that intends to deceive.<\/p>\n<p>In testimony before Congress, the great banker J. Pierpont Morgan was asked:<\/p>\n<p>Q: &quot;Is not credit based primarily on money or property?&quot;<br \/>\nA: &quot;No sir, the first thing is character.&quot;<br \/>\nQ: &quot;Before money or property?&quot;<br \/>\nA: &quot;Before money or anything else. Money cannot buy credit. Because a man I do not trust could not get credit from me on all the bonds of Christendom.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading this book on mortgage secrets. Gary W. Eldred, PhD, writes: Secret #11: Never lie to a lender. The application itself reveals your integrity. Justify hard-to-believe items. Do not try to slip by an applications that intends to deceive. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3442\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[10299,10297,10296,10298,722],"class_list":["post-3442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-christendom","tag-gary-w-eldred","tag-j-pierpont-morgan","tag-mortgage-secrets","tag-quot"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}