Shelve your defensiveness when it comes to pricing your home for sale. Judgments about the value of your home are not about you. They are about the looks, bricks and sticks and location of the home you are getting ready to sell and most importantly current market conditions. You need to stay as dispassionate as… Continue reading Pricing Your Home for Sale
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Selling and Saying Goodbye to a Home
Selling your home and saying goodbye can be a difficult experience, especially when it’s combined with upheaval, which is often the case these days. The formalities and procedures can be frustrating and intimidating. Like many sellers, you might also be wrestling with bittersweet memories and assorted “goodbyes.” In fact, your feelings can range from eagerness… Continue reading Selling and Saying Goodbye to a Home
Top Homeowner Spring Maintenance Steps
Spring has sprung, and before you let the kids run wild and invite neighbors over for a barbecue you might want to make sure your home is safe. Matt Lederer, a Chicago based builder offers eight steps that can save you money, time and keep your family safe. “Spring is the season of rebirth and… Continue reading Top Homeowner Spring Maintenance Steps
Millions of Homeowners to Get Housing Relief Money
The U.S. government’s program to bring relief to homeowners in jeopardy of foreclosure is designed to bring tailor made solutions to the 10 states in the program. The plan, known as the Hardest Hit Fund (HHF) is being administered through the Troubled Asset and Relief Program with $2.1-billion for homeowners in distress. White House officials… Continue reading Millions of Homeowners to Get Housing Relief Money
New Rules of Real Estate
Manufactured by a combination of Wall Street financial manipulation, overly creative banking practices, greed and plenty of fraud the real estate crash over the last three years has developed a whole new rule book for buying and selling property. Here are the 10 best new rules to keep in mind before you venture out into… Continue reading New Rules of Real Estate
Alternatives to Conventional Mortgages
By Kevin Chiu Everybody needs a rich uncle when it comes to buying a home. The problem is most of us simply aren’t related to the kind of money needed to buy a home so getting a mortgage is the answer. However, in the credit crunch it’s gotten harder for many people to find financing.… Continue reading Alternatives to Conventional Mortgages
How to Buy a Home in the New Economy
By John Hines So you’ve searched the Internet day and night — Looked at hundreds of homes for sale — Filled out the forms at the bank to get pre-qualified only to find out that they won’t give you a mortgage. Perhaps your credit score isn’t high enough to fit into the underwriter’s new higher standards.… Continue reading How to Buy a Home in the New Economy
How to Fix Housing
By Mike Colpitts Editor When a surgeon goes in with a scalpel to cut he goes directly to the problem area to take out the cancer. The doctor cuts out the bad area and stitches the skin back up to heal. With all of its debate, it’s no different in real estate. The poison loans… Continue reading How to Fix Housing
Benefits of FHA Loans
FHA loans are fast becoming a popular option for home buyers, and rightly so. With their backing from the federal government they are appealing not only to the home buyer but also to the lender. Today’s lending markets are tough; good credit, significant down payments and steady employment is necessary. FHA loans make these requirements… Continue reading Benefits of FHA Loans
How to Get a FHA Loan
Pre-Approval Benefits You’ve heard about FHA loans and you are interested, but how do you get them? Once you know that this is the type of loan for you, you’ll need to go through the pre-approval process. This process is similar to that of a conventional loan (a non FHA insured loan.) The process is… Continue reading How to Get a FHA Loan