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Home Buying

Where to Find Foreclosure Deals

Tweet If you do, then there are several ways for you to find a foreclosure and get a hold of the property before someone else snags it. Yes, foreclosures are

Home Tips

Home Price Negotiation and What to Consider

Tweet As you might surmise, there is some tension at times between the two parties, what real estate agents seek to alleviate to make a deal happen. As a buyer,

Home Selling

7 Tips for a Successful Open House

You’re getting ready to list your home for sale and you’ve talked with your real estate agent about holding an open house. Not all agents hold these events, as they believe potential buyers will find your home through other means.

Home Buying

How to Win the Short Sales Game

Tweet To obtain a short sale home you need to possess knowledge, patience and fortitude, attributes that can help you win the short sales game. Knowledge Quite easily, you can

Retirement

Why Real Estate May be Your Ticket to Retirement

Tweet By Stacey Edwards We all know how that came out. Everyday people lost way too much money and the economy almost fell into a great depression. That explains why

Credit Management

How to Buy a Home With Bad Credit

Tweet Credit problems can thwart home ownership. For consumers with bad credit the thought of buying a home is something beyond their wildest dreams. Fortunately, there are some options you

Education Tips

When to Give Up Your Home Office for Commercial Space

Tweet Making the transition from your home to a rented office. But, your business has certainly gone beyond the section of your family room you carved out when you first

Home Buying

What You Need to Know About Short Sale Homes

Tweet How to increase your chances of buying a distressed property. When the seller lists the home for less than what is owed on the mortgage, that “shortage” represents a

Home Buying

What Are REO Properties?

Tweet Failure by homeowners to make scheduled mortgage payments triggers the foreclosure process which leads to a home eventually becoming an REO property. REO Defined Not all homes in foreclosure

Home Buying

Short Sale Basics & Your Home Search

Tweet Navigating through short sale confusion. Quite unexpectedly, you find a home that you both love and one that is priced $20,000 under your budget. Giving each other a “this

Money News

Have Home Values Dropped By $9 Trillion?

Tweet The economic downturn that began in late 2007 is one of the worst in memory. Certainly, the Great Depression brought about many hardships, but few people living today experienced

Home Selling

How To Increase The Resale Value Of Your Home

Tweet By Andrew Salmon Selling your home can be hard enough from an emotional standpoint. Losing out on a top dollar selling price only adds insult to injury. However, taking

Home Improvement

5 Ways to Improve Your Curb Appeal

Tweet By Jonathan Bentz Even before a potential home buyers steps foot in your house, the very first thing that the buyer will look at is what your house looks

Money News

Consumer Confidence Lacking For Real Estate Market

Tweet Consumer confidence remains low when it comes to the housing market with 1 in 3 thinking that the worst has yet to come. At the same time, some 38

Home Tips

Should I Insulate My Garage Door?

Tweet By Tom Drake Have you ever noticed how steaming hot your garage gets in the summer and how freezing cold the room above it gets in the winter? This