Home Buying
Home Buying 7-Step Plan, Step 3
Tweet Negotiating the Offer You’re ready to start shopping for a home, understanding that mortgage rates are low and the housing market has cooled. As a buyer, this could be
Housing Prices: Bottoming Out or Still Falling?
Tweet Quick: Home prices have bottomed out or they could still drop an additional 25%. Depending on what you read and whom you believe, you will hear diverging, even contradictory
January Home Sales Drop, But Beat Expectations
Tweet For January 2008, U.S. home sales dropped by 0.4% to an annual pace of 4.89 million homes. According to the National Association of Realtors, which tracks home sales, the
Home Buying 7-Step Plan, Step 2
Tweet Taking the Next Step: Finding A Home There are two big reasons why many consumers are thinking about buying a home today: the weather is getting warmer and mortgage
Explaining Your Loan Qualifying Ratios
Tweet If you are planning to refinance your home, get your first mortgage, or apply for any other type of consumer credit, your housing and debt-income ratios will be tightly
Buying A Home At Fair Market Value
Tweet The housing market has taken its lumps over the past year as mortgage lending requirements tighten and as buyers wait for the market to bottom out. Not everyone can
Your Credit Score and Mortgage Qualifying
Tweet This is one in a series of articles related to the sub-prime mortgage mess that dominated the news in 2007 and will likely continue to be big news throughout
Are You Qualified To Buy A Home?
Tweet This is one in a series of articles related to the sub-prime mortgage mess that dominated the news in 2007 and will likely continue to be big news throughout
Its A Buyer’s Market For Home Buyers!
Tweet Friends of ours sold their house last summer and moved into an apartment temporarily as they re-ordered their lives. Apartment living has been okay for them, but they are
Home Buying 7-Step Plan, Step 1
Tweet Analyzing the Numbers is the First Step in Buying a Home You’ve been waiting for the housing market to stabilize and the funds for a down payment are on
New And Improved SayBuild!
Tweet SayBuild Has Received An Important Facelift Nearly five years after it was first launched, the SayBuild online home construction guide has been revamped. New tools and calculators have been
What Is Your Home Really Worth?
Tweet Our county just went through a lengthy property revaluation process which took nearly two years to complete. Every home in Wake County, North Carolina was reassessed which was the
7 Steps for Buying a Home: Negotiating the Home Buying Offer
Tweet You found the home you want and now comes the third step in the home buying process: negotiating the price you will pay for the home. Certainly, meeting the
7 Steps for Buying a Home: Finding and Working with an Agent
Tweet There are all kinds of people out there who are willing to sell you your next home. Brokers, licensed realtors, a homeowner, your neighbor, or a friend are points
7 Steps for Buying a Home: Searching Homes
Tweet You’ve got the cash for a down payment and you making monthly mortgage payments is something you can handle. With housing prices depressed, now could be a terrific time
