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Mortgage Rates and Your Home Options
Curious about how rate changes may affect your home buying experience? Higher rates may result in adjustments needing to be made on the amount of loan you qualify for, so be sure to discuss your individual situation with a lender,…
Spending More Time Outside Your Home These Days?
Summer weather is heating up, giving even more reasons for you to make the most of the outdoor space surrounding your home! With your backyard furniture and seating getting increased use, you may be considering upgrading the look and style…
Thought About Who Lives Next Door to Your Home Lately?
If you’ve just moved into your home or are considering buying a new home, you may be wondering who lives next door. In this day and age with such busy lifestyles it can take awhile to meet your neighbors. However,…
Making Your Home Into the Summer Party Headquarters
If you’ll be celebrating summer with a party in your home this year, here are a few things to keep in mind. Summertime parties are the perfect type to be thrown out of doors. Guests can mingle easily, enjoying the…
Buying Your Home with the Fair Housing Act
“There’s no place like home,” takes on new meaning when you are buying your home for the first time. There is so much to do and sign in preparation for move-in day and potential snags rest at every corner as…
Your Home, Interest Rates and Quantitative Easing
You’ve no doubt noticed the increase in mortgage rates in the last month – maybe that statistic has even caused you to wonder if NOW is the time to sell your home. Happily the real estate market continues to flourish…
5 Ways To Help Keep Your Home Safe While on Vacation
Summer is definitely here and vacation plans may have you planning on leaving your home in the very near future. Don’t forget to take a few preventative measures to ensure the safety of you and your home while you are…
Relocating Your Home With Kids
Your home is a place of stability and peace for you and if you have children, it can be a grounding force in their lives. Relocating to a new community (or even a new block) can be a very challenging,…
Your Home and Potential Buyers
Potential buyers for your home may be interested in more than just the number of bedrooms and baths, reported the National Association of Realtors® in their just released survey results. The 2013 Profile of Buyers’ Home Feature Preferences study studied…
Brighten Your Home Through Backsplash Design
It’s the little things that turn your house into your home. The color of your walls, the hardware on your cabinetry, and your choice of flooring all create a sense of belonging inside the space you call your home. A…
Sell Your Home with an Open House
If you are looking for a way to sell your home, you’ll want to stage an open house. Less inventory in the housing market means more exposure for your home so now is the prime time to show it off!…
Selling Your Home “As-Is”
Thinking about selling your home but not sure you want to make needed repairs before listing it for sale? You’re in luck! These days, many homes are being sold “as-is” due to an ever-increasing lack of inventory. An “as-is” home…
Take a Look at Your Home – It’s National Homeownershi
June is National Homeownership Month, giving you an excuse to fall in love with your home all over again or find ways to revive it! What advice would you share with young buyers on purchasing a home? What do you…
How Will You Move Your Home
When it comes time to move from your home, do you have a plan? Does the traditional method of boxing up rooms and stacking furniture to be loaded on a truck appeal to you? Prefer professional movers to coordinate the…
Buying Your Home – Is the Time Right?
Wondering about the possibility of buying your home in the current housing market? The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index (HOI) released this week confirmed other recent reports of growth in the real estate market. Spurred on…
Selling Your Home When Inventory is Low
If there is even a slight chance you may want to sell your home, now is the time to act! Housing has definitely shifted to a seller’s market, with inventory at a 13 year low. The National Association of Realtors…
Your Home and Asteroid Insurance
News of an asteroid touching down in the Chelyabinsk Ural region of Russia last week may have you wondering if your home is insured against such a calamity. If you haven’t heard about the incident that demolished glass buildings and…
Get Ideas to Revamp Your Home
The housing market has been buzzing in the last six months, and the news is not always about buying and selling your home. Sometimes, the news just gives you something pretty to look at and dream about, and maybe even…