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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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...
’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...
If life has treated you pretty well and/or you’re looking for a home in an expensive part of the country, you may discover that the amount you’ll need to borrow to purchase a home puts your mortgage in jumbo mortgage...
Legally, there’s nothing stopping you from getting a mortgage this afternoon and refinancing it tomorrow morning. But just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should. If you’ve only recently joined the ranks of mortgage-paying homeowners, you might be...
Summer may be the busiest home buying season, but it’s not necessarily the best time of year to buy a home. Sure, there are lots of houses on the market in the summer. But if you spent your summer sipping...
The home-buying television shows make it look easy. Find a home. Put in an offer. Poof. Done. But in the real world, there are a few hurdles to clear between the seller accepted your offer and congratulations, you’re a homeowner...