Tips for Buying Your First Home
5 Essential Things You Need for Home Buying
By Elizabeth Weintraub, About.com Guide
Sometimes home buyers make buying their first home a lot more difficult than it needs toI have written a ton of articles about the home buying path and gone into excrutiating detail about every single step involved in buying a home. It dawned on me that ...
The lowdown on 10 great tax breaks
You may be somewhat aware that your home is a good source of tax breaks, but maybe you don’t realize just how many there are. April 15 will be here again before you know it, and many people will be scouring their lives for any potential tax breaks. You may not have to look far if you are a homeowner. A recent Realty Times article discusses the ...
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There are many complicated aspects of buying a home, but perhaps one of the most daunting, and important, is the mortgage. Understanding your home loan is the first step to making home buying an easy process.
For most of us, it is more than intimidating to borrow a sum of $100,000, $200,000, $300,000 or more, even if you do get a house in return. Although mortgages are often little-understood ...
A lot of information about interest-only loans has been flying around.We give you a helping hand getting to the bottom of some of it.
Some financial writers have put a big warning sign over interest-only loans; others have told people to dive right in. Which is correct? The answer, of course, is that it depends. A Realty Times article highlighted some key pieces of information that ...
Are You Ready to Make a Purchase Offer?
When Should You Make a Purchase Offer?
By Elizabeth Weintraub, About.com Guide
Not every buyer is ready to make an offer.
Making a purchase offer and actually buying a home are generally two different actions, but home buyers sometimes confuse the two. Especially in states such as California where the purchase offer is not the final ...
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8 signs of a real-estate rebound
Confused about whether the housing market is coming back? Look for these 8 indicators to determine whether there's good news ahead.
By Amy Fontinelle of Investopedia
Is the housing market on the verge of recovering? Is it recovering already? If you're not sure whether you believe the economists and pundits who think they can see the future, here are ...
Whether you’re planning to buy or sell a home in 2010;watch out for these common mistakes.
For many, a new year may mean a home purchase or sale. If you’re planning on being on either side of the closing table in 2010, you will need to avoid these 10 deal-wreckers, as provided by MSN.com.
Not understanding the length of the process.
Buyers and sellers often err in ...
Making an offer is one of the most important steps in the home buying process. If you offer too much, the property might not meet the appraisal. This means you could have trouble getting a mortgage loan. On the other hand, if you offer too little for the home, the seller may reject it.
Here's the bottom line. If you make a real estate offer based on solid data and advice, you'll be less likely to ...
The home equity line of credit (HELOC) versus the home equity loan -- it's a common decision among homeowners who want to tap their real estate wealth. But which one is right for you? What are the pros and cons of each option? Those are the questions we will address in this article.
Let's start with a side-by-side comparison, so you can visualize the difference between the line of credit vs. the equity ...
New short-sale rules may help sellers
The streamlined rules are intended to help borrowers avoid foreclosure.
By Michele Lerner of Bankrate.com
Homeowners struggling to sell their homes in a short sale are getting some relief, thanks to the federal government's Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives (HAFA) program.
Up to now, many short sales — in which the lender accepts ...
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