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Are You Ready to Make the Leap into Home Ownership? Here’s How You Can Tell Are you ready to make that leap from living at home or renting to owning a home of your own? While everyone moves at their own pace, here are some signs that you can use to determine if it is time to own your own home. Le...
02/06/2015
Buying a New Home? Follow These Three Tips to Ensure a Stress-Free Transaction Buying real estate and or taking out a home loan is a significant milestone in life. Frequently, it means that a new phase is starting, whether it’s a new job, a new relationship, or moving to a new area. However, when...
02/04/2015
Tax Time is Upon Us: Learn About Tax Deductions and How to Write off Your Home Mortgage Interest Much to the chagrin of taxpayers all over the country, the tax-filing season begins in January and runs through April 15 of each year. As the current tax season approaches, it presents an opportunity ...
02/03/2015
Do You Need Mortgage Insurance Even if It’s Not Required by Your Lender? Let’s Take a Look Finding a proper mortgage loan and understanding the processing procedures behind the loan is the basis of good research. The down payment on a mortgage loan is typically significant when dealing with mortg...
02/03/2015
What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – Feburary 2, 2015 Last week’s economic reports included Case-Shiller 10 and 20-City Home Price Index reports for November along with new and pending home sales for December. Freddie Mac reported on average mortgage rates and new jobless claims dipped une...
02/01/2015
Homeowner’s Insurance: What’s Covered, What Isn’t and Why You Might Need It Homeowner’s insurance is an incredibly valuable and beneficial policy for homeowners to have, but it is necessary to understand what traditional policies do and do not cover. Once you familiarize yourself with the intrica...
01/29/2015
Buying a New Home in the City? The Pros and Cons of Buying a Home on a Busy Street Finding the perfect property is an exciting feeling, but its relative location can leave a lot of room for worry. Buying a home in the city is a venture that comes with an entire assortment of advantages and disadv...
01/28/2015
Three iPhone and Android Apps That Make Managing Your Mortgage Payments Quick and Easy Your mortgage payment may be among the largest payments you make every month. While certainly an important part of your budget, this payment is also critical to helping you build equity in your home because it ...
01/26/2015
What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – January 26, 2015 Last week’s economic reports included the National Association of Home Builders Wells Fargo Housing Market Index, Housing Starts for December and the FHFA Home Price Index report for November. The National Association of Realtors® also ...
01/26/2015
Three Tips for Reducing Your Closing Costs if You’re Looking Forward To Buying a Home in the Spring   Spring is aproaching fast and it is usually the busiest time of the year for home buying. After a long and cold winter, many people are ready to enjoy the nicer weather and begin to shop for a ne...
01/21/2015
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