Buying a new home is wonderful and exciting, but also stressful – especially when you’re buying your first home. It’s a big commitment of money, time, and resources, but also an emotional one. You’re taking on a mortgage, planning to…
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Refinancing and Title Insurance
For anyone refinancing their house for the first time, there is always one question. “But I already have title insurance. Why do I need it again?” When you refinance your home, you are paying off one mortgage and acquiring another.…
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Posted in Mortgage, Real Estate, Title insurance
Posted in Mortgage, Real Estate, Title insurance
Escrow ABCs
Everyone has heard the term “in escrow” – but not a lot of you know what it means other than as being one of the stages of purchasing a house. Broken down to the most basic concept, placing funds in…
Buying within an HOA: Need-to-Knows
One of the things you may have heard of when shopping for a condo, townhouse, or other planned community or gated development home is that you will be required to join the homeowners association – also called an HOA. A…
5 Mistakes to Make for a Nightmare Closing
Closing on your new home is stressful even for real estate veterans, but for first timers it can really be a ride through the funhouse. There are five things that will make a stressful situation into a nightmare if you’re…
Millennial Homebuyers Want List
The media is fond of painting with broad strokes, less than willing to get into the nuances of generational differences that are not sound-bite friendly or capable of garnering ratings via raw chair-throwing controversy. However, the much-bashed Millennials (1980-1999) are…
5 Signs You Are Ready to Buy a Home
According to leading sources, rents are going to be going up yet again for 2016. The Wall Street Journal reports that rents are growing at the fastest pace in the past 10 years, growing by 4.6 percent in 2015 alone…
Protect Your Money From Scammers Stealing Home Closing Wire Transfer
Whenever a system is put in place to stop fraud, there are crooks smart enough to get around it. It’s frustrating to build a better mouse trap and end up with a bunch of smarter mice! That’s kind of what…
HOME BUYERS IN CANADA CAN NOW FIND THEIR PERFECT MATCH
Thanks to heavy television advertising, most of us have heard of the various dating sites that exist today. There’s Match.com, PlentyofFish.com and eHarmony.com, among many others. Of course, the idea behind all of them is to try and bring together…
NOT ALL HOMES ARE CREATED EQUAL
If one was to believe a piece we just found on Realtor.com, the headline above appears to be widely accurate. In fact, the story went on to say that not only are most homes different, but they don’t sell equally…
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