Tag "Home Buying"
Purchasing A Foreclosure? What You Should Know
When a property owner is unable to meet the terms of his mortgage and falls behind on payments, one route the lender may take is foreclosure.
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
4 Timely Tips For First Time Home Buyers
Tweet You’re in the market for your very first home – congratulations! Yet, you know that these are unusual times in which to buy a home with unemployment levels pushing
Should You Wait Until The Bottom of the Housing Market to Buy a Home?
Tweet Lots of people are in good shape financially despite the recent gyrations of the stock market. Sure, their retirement portfolios may have taken a hit – a bad one
Buying A New Home? Haggle!
Tweet The current housing market is a wonderful ally for home buyers, as home values drop and sellers are willing to negotiate. Home shoppers previously shut out of some local
Going Back Home For Mortgages: How Parents Can Help
Tweet By Sarah Scrafford, Guest Writer You would think that the process of buying a first home just got easy what with the slump in real estate prices, but that’s
Good News Continues To Bolster Some Housing Markets
Tweet Many local housing markets are offering near equal measures of good news and bad news when it comes to buying and selling homes. In some markets the good news
Smart Stress Reducing Moving Tips
Tweet If you’re planning to move, hopefully you are well along the way toward putting your plans in place. If not, you’ll find that the days leading up to the
Home Buying 7-Step Plan, Step 7
Tweet This is the final article in our home buying series. Hooray, you’ve finished the deal and are ready to move in! The house is yours and all you have
Home Buying 7-Step Plan, Step 6
Tweet Closing Your Home The big day has arrived: your new home will officially be yours once closing has been completed. If you time everything right, you can begin moving
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
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
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
Say “Good-Bye” To No-Doc Mortgages!
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
