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The Most Important Home Buying Documents To Keep After Closing
Many home buyers don't know which home closing documents to keep.
It's no wonder that home buyers can be confused because there is so much paperwork involved in every transaction. Signing...
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Top 3 Home Buying Blunders
Buying real estate is hard enough without buyers messing it up for themselves by forgetting about the top three home buying mistakes.
Not that buyers intentionally cause problems, mind you. It's...
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Hot Home Buying Trends
As I stare at my newly installed kitchen counters, I can't help but wonder how long it will take before home buyers resort to snickering at quartz counters after new...
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How to Recognize Predatory Mortgage Lenders
Even though there are laws against predatory lending, it doesn't stop mortgage fraud or protect an innocent buyer from harm.
Nobody wants to overpay for a mortgage loan or...
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How to Ask Your Parents for Money to Buy a Home
It's not always fun to ask parents for money, but sometimes it's the only way to afford to buy a home.
Especially in today's lending world -- with banks tightening mortgage...
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What is Procuring Cause?
In an ideal real estate world, procuring cause never happens.
Procuring cause doesn't happen in an ideal world because in that fictional real estate society, every single home buyer will have...
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Property Condition Isn't the Only Drawback to Buying Foreclosures
For novice home buyers, buying foreclosures can be riddled with pitfalls and drawbacks.
Not every successful bidder for a foreclosure property comes out ahead. Sometimes buyers end up dealing with mountains...
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How to Get Cash for Keys During a Foreclosure
There are some tenants that you can just tell are angling to get cash for keys.
Those types are often snarly, combative and act as though the world owes them big-time...
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Ways to Protect Your Earnest Money Deposit
In the initial excitement over making an offer to buy a new home, buyers often pay little or no attention to how their earnest money deposit is handled.
That lack of...
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There Are Plenty of Places to Get a Mortgage
Way back in the old days, like the 1980s, home buyers didn't think twice about where to get a mortgage.
They went directly to a local bank for home financing....
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