There are many good reasons to improve or remodel your home. The key is to find the right way to finance the improvements.
Selling Your Home is Easier if You Prepare First
There are a number of things you should do to prepare for putting your home up for sale. If you take care of these things first, your sale will go much more smoothly.
Home Foreclosures and Big Profits? Just Another Myth
There are a number of people offering their “secrets” of how you can earn a fortune investing in foreclosed homes. It’s harder than you think.
Buying a home? Consider Hiring an Attorney
There are several good reasons why you should consider hiring an attorney to help you with the purchase of a home. The money you spend on legal assistance could save you thousands of dollars later.
Mortgage Problems and the Myth of Foreclosure Help
As interest rates rise and consumers with adjustable rate mortgages find it harder and harder to make their monthly house payment, more and more people are responding to offers from companies offering “foreclosure help.” The result is usually bad news.
Mortgage Tips for First Time Buyers
Here are some things that anyone shopping for a home for the first time should know.
Option ARM – The World’s Most Dangerous Mortgage
With high prices and low interest rates, the lending industry has introduced a number of complicated loan types with adjustable interest rates. One of them, the option ARM, has the potential to financially crush the borrower.
Home Refinancing is Done for Many Reasons
There are many reasons for refinancing a home loan. All of them are good ones.
Mortgage Costs and How to Reduce Them
Over the life of your mortgage you may pay nearly three times the price of your home, paying most of the extra in interest costs. Here are some ways to save.
Four Dangerous Words – “You Can Refinance Later”
Don’t be confused or misled when your lender urges you to take a loan with terms you may not be able to afford. Their suggestion that you can refinance later will not help you if you cannot afford the payments now.
Has Your Adjustable Rate Mortgage Become a Gamble?
Rising interest rates over the last two years have adversely affected millions of homeowners with adjustable rate loans. Buyers who took out adjustable rate loans three years ago to buy more expensive homes are now facing huge payment increases that they might not be able to afford.
Home Equity Line of Credit – Do Rising Interest Rates Spell Trouble?
A home equity line of credit is a useful tool, but one that is adversely affected by rising interest rates. If you have one, what should you do?