Letting folks know that you’re looking to buy your first home can open a floodgate of unsolicited advice from friends and loved-ones. Your Aunt and Uncle bought their home during the Reagan administration, but are now suddenly experts on real...
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Millennials are expected to form 20 million new households by 2025. That indicates a major shift for many 18-34-year-olds: from renting to owning a home. Renters typically need to come up with first, last, and security deposit lock in a...
Pros and Cons of Buying a Home in Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter Spring and summer months bring an influx of potential homebuyers. In warmer months, the trees are blooming. Birds are singing. You are not shivering and wearing forty-five...
You found the perfect home. You walked over the threshold at the open house, took a good look around, and thought to yourself, you know, I really think this could be it. So you checked out the neighborhood, and researched...
Buying a house can be a great investment in your future financial well-being. But unlike other financial investments, a house isn’t just a line-item on a balance sheet. When it comes to buying a home, the choice you make will...
Being a homeowner can make you feel like you’ve got a never-ending ‘To Do’ list. Staying on top of what-needs-doing-now keeps even seasoned homeowners on their toes. If it’s your first month as a homeowner, figuring out what to do...
’Tis the season for gift-giving! If you’ve been very, very, good—and if you’ve got kind and generous people in your life—you just might receive some money to put towards your future home purchase. And if you’ll be using gift funds...
About 61% of American households have pets. Last year, American pet owners spent nearly 70 billion dollars on goods and services for their pets. If you’ve got a pet, chances are good that you consider your pet an important part...
Plenty of people rely on tips for a some or all of their income. Right now, more than 16 million Americans work in the kinds of service and hospitality industry jobs that have traditionally relied on tips for compensation. And...
The Federal Reserve has raised interest rates three times in 2018, and they’re not finished: another hike is expected before the end of the year. If that’s not bad enough, most financial analysts agree that we can look forward to...
In the popular imagination, Millennials live in big city apartments or occupy their parents’ basements rent-free. But in fact, members of the Millennial cohort—that generation of young adults born roughly between 1980 and 1998—bought more homes last year than people...