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House Hunting Tips House hunting is exciting.  These house hunting tips will help keep you on track.  There is lots to consider when you are house hunting.  Once you start looking online you can easily be drawn into premature jubilation. A process is actually...

Wants vs Needs? Buyers who try to get everything may end up not getting a home at all! Dividing your desires into the two lists (wants vs needs) will force you to reveal to yourself what is truly the most important quality in a home. This allows you to start your home...

Just not affordable! Leaving California for affordable areas Residents of coastal Southern California are increasingly making the decision to move away to find affordable housing — a trend many economists blame on a housing shortage driving rents and home prices...

You want to buy a house.  You are committed to the process.  You want to be successful in your quest.  And yet many buyers are their own worst enemy.  Here are some bad habits to avoid. Too secretive: You should think of yourself and your Realtor as a team, but the...

  Home shoppers are increasingly facing steep competition for the limited number of homes for sale.  Follow these buying tips.   1. Stick to a budget. Have buyers get preapproved by one or more lenders to ensure eligibility. Be sure to also take into account extra...

Understanding the difference between annual percentage rate, or APR, and interest rate could save you thousands of dollars on your mortgage. But if you're like most homebuyers, you probably don't know that the interest rate and the APR measure 2 important, but...

Although we know how to build energy efficient, healthy, comfortable, durable homes, mostly we don’t ...but not because it’s too expensive.  So why is that? A lot of work has been done in the past 20 years to improve the way we build houses. Thanks to the EPA’s Energy...

Try this google search--quick fix credit repair (599,000 results) or fast credit repair ( 17,000,000 results)...you get the idea.  People want to fix their credit and they want to do it fast, now, today.  That's why you are here...right?  You messed it up fast so you...

So you want to buy a house! As everyone knows, a house is not an impulse purchase; you can't just waltz in and declare "I'll take it!" Preparation is important.  Here is a list of things you can do to prepare. Find a real estate agent There's no reason to go it...