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Smart Tips To Weigh Before Attending An Open House This Weekend

Tweet I was considering posting this article later in the week, but then I realized that the tips I’m planning to share with you here need several days of rumination.

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Forget The New Home: Short Sale Deals Reign Supreme

Tweet Home buyers who are interested in new construction may want to skip the second and third stage homes in their favorite housing development. That’s because houses built a year

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Warmer Weather Is Here, Will Home Sales Follow?

Tweet Our neighborhood is all abuzz as cold weather which produced three inches of snow on Monday will be a distant memory when temperatures approach 80 degrees this weekend. Definitely,

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Housing Market Pummelled Once Again In January 2009

Tweet After a decent performance in some markets in December, the national housing market got slapped around in January as resales slipped by 5.3%. Resales include only sales of existing

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Home Prep On The Cheap!

Tweet Give Your Home An Exterior Makeover For $5K Or Less I have some good new and bad news for you, but first the bad news…all of it! Your company

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Online Tools Make Real Estate Buying Easier

Tweet I believe that this spring will be a surprisingly good season to buy a home. Although the months of April, May and June are typically the time when sales

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Zillow Says Most Americans Aware Of Home Value Decline

Tweet One of the most bitter pills Americans have had to swallow over the past year or more is the notion that the value of their homes has not only

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Buying or Selling a Home at Christmas Time

Tweet A home in a neighborhood adjoining the one where I live went on the market shortly before Thanksgiving. In our combined neighborhoods, there are probably no more than a

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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

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Your Local Housing Market: How Bad Is It?

Tweet You’re planning to move sometime over the next several months, but the current housing market has you worried. That house you purchased four years ago when the market was

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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

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Fannie Mae Increases Support For Multifamily Housing

Tweet Fannie Mae, which is the informal name for the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) — a government backed business — announced last week that it had invested $20 billion

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Save Even More With FSBO

Tweet FSBO or For Sale By Owner remains a popular marketing alternative for people who are buying or selling a home. Sellers like them because they can cut out the

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Condo Fees Are Up, Up, And Away!

Tweet The condominium market has imploded over the past year or two thanks to a downturn in the overall housing market and overbuilding in many local markets. Complete condo projects

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The 4 Elements Of Your Mortgage Loan

Tweet Your home loan consists of four elements, two that you are probably aware of, and those are the principal and interest. Two additional elements, taxes and insurance, must also