Vacation Homes & Second Homes Now Easier To Buy
Simpler vacation home lending, along with status and sentimentality, are big factors when average and affluent people decide to buy a second home. What could be better than…
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Lee Nelson is a Chicago-based writer whose work has appeared on Realtor.org, Yahoo! Homes, TheMortgageReports.com, and more.
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Six Things to Consider Before Paying Off Your Mortgage Early
When a home buyer purchases a home, they agree to a mortgage that is best for their budget. Mortgages will typically last 30 years so homeowners can more…
What You Need To Know To Buy a Home Overseas
When people fall in love with a travel spot and dream of buying a condo on the beach or a villa in the city, they might not expect…
Credit, Home Type & Perceived Risk Affect Your Mortgage Rate
Getting an interest rate to purchase a home is similar to when you were back in school earning good grades – or not. The teacher put together many…
Don’t Buy a Car During your Home Loan Application
You start to fantasize about putting something pretty in your future new garage even though your mortgage loan hasn’t been closed yet. You go out and take out…
What a Home Warranty Is & What It Covers
Things break. But when you have money wrapped up in your refrigerator, furnace or other appliances, it could get quite expensive to fix or replace them, especially right…
Buying a Home After Bankruptcy
Filing for bankruptcy can be a difficult time for anybody. It can be a little embarrassing and many think that it will completely ruin their futures. Fortunately, this…
Pros & Cons of Piggyback Loans
Many home buyers believe they need to put 20 percent down for a house. However, many home buyers end up putting down less than 20 percent. In fact,…
How Commuting Costs and Time Factor into Home Buying
Lenders, realtors and finance professionals have said for years that your housing costs should never go over 30 percent of your income. But this conventional wisdom often doesn’t…
Summer Home Buying Strategies
A lot of people talk about the spring being the most popular home buying season. But with the markets being crazy across the country during the summer, summer…