What You Need to Know Before Refinancing
Refinancing your mortgage is an opportunity to reduce home ownership costs. But with so many mortgage products available, it’s easy...
Real Estate Term of the Week
Pending – Will Accept Backup Offers: An offer has been accepted and the home is undergoing steps toward a closing....
How to Work with Your Realtor®
If you’re shopping for a home, you’ve likely enlisted a Realtor®. The home buying process can be fun, frustrating, daunting,...
Real Estate Term of the Week
Leverage: is the use of various financial instruments or borrowed capital to increase the potential return of an investment. When...
Should You Pay Cash for Your Home?
So you’ve saved well and are thinking of paying cash for your next home. Most other home buyers are pulling...
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Pre-qualification: An informal estimation of how much a homebuyer can afford. The main difference between pre-qualification and pre-approval is that...
Will an Open House Sell My Home?
Holding an open house has been a marketing tradition for decades in the real estate industry. You open up the...
Real Estate Term of the Week
Opportunity Cost: Refers to a benefit that a person could have received, but gave up, to take another course of...
Weighing the Pros and Cons of Renting vs. Buying
Should I rent or buy a home? It’s a popular question that often results in biased answers based on who’s...
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Truth-in-Lending Act (TILA): A set of U.S. government guidelines for lending practices to ensure that borrowers receive information about their...
Practical Tips for Packing When Time is Short
Sometimes the process of home buying takes several months and there’s ample time to sort through your own belongings in...
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Rescission Notice: A form buyers sign if they back out of an offer on a home. The buyer’s agent will...