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Buying or Selling a Home

Increase Your Home's Value So You Can Sell It For More

Mar 22, 2018

If you're interested in selling your home, it's important to try to improve it so that you don't have to reduce its price, as 22 percent of...

7 Biggest Home Buying Mistakes

Sep 08, 2014

Whether you're a first-time buyer or you've been around the block a few times, there are certain home buying mistakes that trip people up...

Mortgages in 2014: How New Requirements Will Affect Homebuyers

May 21, 2014

SUMMARY: Starting this year, mortgages are newly impacted by now-codified Consumer Financial Protection Bureau guidelines. And so, for...

The Power of a Full House: Investors, Beware of Vacant Home Insurance Prices

Apr 04, 2014

By Justin Stoltzfus. March 2, 2014 There are a number of wild cards in traditional real estate investment, and one of them is an...

Selling Your Home

Feb 24, 2014

When selling your principal residence, the basic tax rule is that you can exclude gains of up to $250,000 if you are a single taxpayer and...

Should You Rent or Own?

Feb 24, 2014

It seems like everyone either owns a home or is saving to purchase a home. Certainly, there are significant financial and tax reasons for...

Is a House a Good Investment? - Is Now a Good Time to Make an Investment

Feb 24, 2014

Whether it is a penthouse in New York City, a beach house in Corolla, NC or a farmhouse in central Virginia, owning your own home is a...

Avoid Becoming House Poor

Feb 24, 2014

Being house poor has little to do with the value of your home. You could live in a palatial estate worth $4 million, and you'd still be...

House Rich, Cash Poor

Feb 24, 2014

People over 65 control a significant portion of the wealth in this country, but much of their wealth is concentrated in the equity in their...

First-Time Homebuyers: How Much Do You Really Need to Save?

Feb 03, 2014

SUMMARY Saving for a new home can seem like an insurmountable challenge, especially for first-time buyers. But what kind of numbers really...

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