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Enhancing Your Home’s Interior

Tweet This article represents the final article in our home construction specification plan series. Assembling a Home Construction Specification Plan — Spec Plan T: Interior Decor Who is the best

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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

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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

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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 Building

A Fresh Approach to Outfitting Your Lawn

Tweet This article is part of our ongoing home construction specification plan series. Assembling a Home Construction Specification Plan — Spec Plan S: Landscaping First impressions of a home are

Home Buying Relocation

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

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Using Your Stimulus Check For Home Improvements

Tweet When the U.S. Treasury starts sending out economic stimulus package checks this June, the hope is that the billions of dollars of money received by eligible citizens will be

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Garage and Pathways That Get Noticed

Tweet This article is part of our ongoing home construction specification plan series. Assembling a Home Construction Specification Plan — Spec Plan R: Garage, Pathways Not many people who are

Home Improvement Money Management

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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

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Your Personal Touch Makes A House A Home

Tweet This article is part of our ongoing home construction specification plan series. Assembling a Home Construction Specification Plan — Spec Plan Q: Other Amenities What is it that makes

Home Buying

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

Home Building

Lighting Your New Home, In And Out

Tweet This article is part of our ongoing home construction specification plan series. Assembling a Home Construction Specification Plan — Spec Plan P: Home Lighting Some of the final touches

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Winter Time Is Home Improvement Time

Tweet That cold wind blowing down out of the north can have you longing for the balmy days of summer. Ice, snow and cloudy skies can put a real damper

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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