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Looking for a new home can be exciting and frustrating. You can help alleviate the frustration by paying close attention to five key areas of the homes you're considering buying; it may save you money in the long run. Don Walker is an inspector and
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A modest gain in the level of home sales is possible over the next couple months, and an improvement is forecast for the second half of this year as more buyers are able to access affordable mortgages, according to the latest forecast by the National
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A growing number of crooks who steal your identity don't swipe your personal information to pilfer from your financial accounts. They want to get their hands on your home and snatch it right out from under you. Modern day malefactors are mindful of
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Here's a tax alert for real estate investors who use popular tax-free exchanges: The recently signed federal housing legislation contains a hidden zinger that could cost you thousands of dollars if you don't plan around it. As of next January
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Every seller is looking for the perfect sale and every buyer is looking for the perfect opportunity to seize a new home or investment property. Getting your home ready to close the deal for the most money, starts with knowing where to begin and, often,
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There's a lot of talk about curb appeal being the driving force drawing buyers into your home. It makes sense. If the house looks a mess from the outside, what buyer would want to set foot inside? Well, maybe your house isn't quite a mess. You
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If your home is on the market, chances are your agent will be holding an open house. Open Houses can be a great way to drive buyer traffic to your home. But most often the desire to physically come and see your home starts with a picture on the Internet.
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Your FICO score is the yardstick by which most lenders measure your credit worthiness. The major credit bureaus keep track loans that you have taken out in the past and how well you managed this debt. A high FICO score indicates that you have been responsible
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Paramount in new federal regulations approved to foster more responsible mortgage lending, are the implications for consumers shopping for a home loan. The Federal Reserve Board's new rule amends the "Truth In Lending Act," Regulation Z
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Good news has made its way into the real estate arena this summer -- in the form of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008. What does this Act mean for you? It means a lot if you are in the market to be a first time homebuyer -- up to a $7,500
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It is hard to imagine that anyone really enjoys home maintenance chores. These chores usually consist of climbing under, through, or over spaces on or in your home that the human body was not designed to deal with. If you are lucky enough to avoid crawling
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The massive, 690-page housing bill has plenty of mortgage-related provisions in it, but it also has an important stimulus program designed to jump-start housing sales: It's a tax credit, effective immediately, that could cut up to $7,500 off the federal
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When most sellers list their home for sale the first thing they think about is how much will I get and that is usually followed by how soon will I get the money. It's certainly understandable that those two concerns are, most often, top of mind. After
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Mortgage fraud is forcing lenders to scrutinize the paperwork and today's home loan applicant must be better prepared to run the mortgage application gauntlet. 30 to 70 percent of early mortgage payment defaults are likely linked to borrower misrepresentations
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Here's some great news for the thousands of real estate investors and brokers who use "Section 1031" (ten thirty-one) tax-deferred real exchanges every year: Congress has backed off its latest plan to narrow the definition of "like
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