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Carve out some time to come by our Meet & Greet @ Academy Mortgage Toluca Lake! 4:30pm-7:00pm

Find out if 2015 is your year to buy a home! #academymortgage #homebuying #newhouse

The value of homes within a quarter-mile of a Starbucks rise faster than those that aren't, according to real estate research group Zillow. Where are you next to a Starbucks?

Academy Mortgage in Toluca Lake is now on yelp! Please let us know how we are doing and share your experience working with us! http://www.yelp.com/biz/academy-mortgage-toluca-lake-burbank

"We're all given the same hours in a day, live them." #motivationalquote #quoteoftheday

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream... Who is Cupid? Except for the heart shape, Cupid with his love arrows is the most popular icon of Valentine’s Day. Cupid started life as Eros, the Greek god of love, and was later adopted and renamed Cupid by the ancient Romans, who made him their god of love. Cupid was the son of Mercury, the winged messenger of the gods, and Venus, the goddess of love. Who was St. Valentine? Valentine’s Day is rooted in Christian and ancient Roman legends. Three different saints were named Valentine, and all were martyred for the sake of love: The first St. Valentine, a priest in third century Rome, was executed for secretly performing wedding ceremonies for soldiers, in defiance of the imperial decree that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families. The second St. Valentine was executed for attempting to help Christians escape Roman prisons. The third St. Valentine, who was in jail, was in love with his jailor’s daughter. Before his execution, he wrote her a letter signed From your Valentinethe first valentine greeting. When? Valentine’s Day is celebrated in mid-February to commemorate the anniversary of St. Valentine’s death. St. Valentine’s feast day also coincides with the ancient pagan fertility festival of Lupercalia, dedicated to Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture. How many cards? About 145 million Valentine’s Day cards are bought each year in the U.S., second only to Christmas (1.6 billion cards). The first mass-produced valentines in America were sold in the 1840s. The oldest valentine still in existence today was a poem written in 1415 by the Duke of Orleans to his wife while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London. How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43), by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 18061861 How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach . . . I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. LOVE IN YOUR HEART WASN’T PUT THERE TO STAY, LOVE ISN’T LOVE ‘TIL YOU GIVE IT AWAY! Oscar Hammerstein II, The Sound of Music

Happy Valentines Day! Have a day full of love and appreciation for those in your life! #happyvalentines

Come Support Toys for Tots @ Academy Mortgage in Toluca Lake!! Bring any unwrapped toy or gift Card... Every Tuesday in December we are offering Coffee and Donuts! Please come support!

Freddie Mac reported average home loan interest rates remained short of 4% last week. Take advantage of it now! #academymortgage

We are excited to announce the Red Carpet premier of Academy Mortgage Corporation in Toluca Lake! Please join us on October 9th from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM! Don't miss it!

Somebody's happy its Friday! #weekend