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Home Improvement

What to Look for in Your Home Contractor

Tweet If you are planning to take on a major home improvement project, you’ll be hiring a contractor unless you decide to do the entire job yourself. Most of us

Consumer Financing Home Improvement

How to Finance Your Home Improvement Project

Tweet Undertaking a home improvement project can be a daunting task, with the homeowners working closely with their architect to discuss what they would like to have done for their

Education Tips Home Buying Money News

Last Call For Fed Home Buying Tax Credit

Tweet Program ends this Friday First time home buyers looking to save $8000 on their purchase have until midnight Friday night to sign a home purchase agreement. Repeat home buyers

Home Buying Money News

Final Month For Home Buyer Tax Credit

Tweet Four weeks from today, an important tax credit for home buyers will come to an end. On April 30, 2010, the deadline for “The Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance

Home Selling

7 Tips For Selling Your Home Today

Tweet Today’s housing market is a tough one, but that doesn’t mean you can wait it out by not putting your home on the market. Sometimes a job change forces

Home Selling

Smart Tips To Help You Prepare Your Home For Sale

Tweet Spring is here and with the warmer weather comes a surge of homes available for sale. The 2010 market may be tempered a bit with some local markets still

Home Buying

Time Running Out On Home Buyer’s Tax Credit

Tweet April 30, 2010 is a date circled in red on the calendars of some home shoppers. That is the last day when prospective home buyers can enter into an

Home Improvement

7 Home Improvement Stores

Tweet I don’t know what the weather is like where you live, but here in north central North Carolina we’ve seen the snow melt and temperatures surge well into the

Home Selling Money Management

Short Selling May Not Resolve Your Problems

Tweet Consumers seeking to save their homes from foreclosure and the resultant long term hit to their credit ratings will sometimes put their homes on the market and accept a

Home Selling

5 Homeowner Open House Strategies

Tweet If you’re a homeowner working with a real estate agent to sell your home, there are some things you can do make your open house successful, perhaps netting one

Home Buying Money News

Congress Weighs Modified Home Buyer Tax Credit

Tweet Eligible first time home buyers have enjoyed an $8000 federal tax credit thanks to a program put into place earlier this year. That program comes to an end on

Home Buying Money News

House Sales Surge For September 2009

Tweet Sales of existing homes climbed by 9.4% in September, representing the strongest monthly increase in more than two years, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). With an

Home Selling

7 Tips For Pricing Your Home In Today’s Economy

Tweet Let’s face it: if you are a homeowner the current real estate market is a bummer, especially if you are planning to sell your home. Though the economy is

Home Buying

Lease To Own: Your Path To Home Ownership

Tweet Traditionally, home buyers have gotten into the market by shopping, choosing and moving into a home that they planned to keep for many years. Buyers would put five to

Home Improvement

Get $1500 Credit For New Windows, Doors

Tweet Although the credit wasn’t the reason why we purchased new windows in the first place, knowing that the federal government would provide as much as a $1500 credit for