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2015 

Homeowner’s Insurance: What’s Covered, What Isn’t and Why You Might Need It Homeowner’s insurance is an incredibly valuable and beneficial policy for homeowners to have, but it is necessary to understand what traditional policies do and do not cover. Once you familiarize yourself with the intrica...
01/29/2015
Buying a New Home in the City? The Pros and Cons of Buying a Home on a Busy Street Finding the perfect property is an exciting feeling, but its relative location can leave a lot of room for worry. Buying a home in the city is a venture that comes with an entire assortment of advantages and disadv...
01/28/2015
Three iPhone and Android Apps That Make Managing Your Mortgage Payments Quick and Easy Your mortgage payment may be among the largest payments you make every month. While certainly an important part of your budget, this payment is also critical to helping you build equity in your home because it ...
01/26/2015
What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – January 26, 2015 Last week’s economic reports included the National Association of Home Builders Wells Fargo Housing Market Index, Housing Starts for December and the FHFA Home Price Index report for November. The National Association of Realtors® also ...
01/26/2015
Three Tips for Reducing Your Closing Costs if You’re Looking Forward To Buying a Home in the Spring   Spring is aproaching fast and it is usually the busiest time of the year for home buying. After a long and cold winter, many people are ready to enjoy the nicer weather and begin to shop for a ne...
01/21/2015
Three Tips for Reducing Your Closing Costs if You’re Looking Forward To Buying a Home in the Spring Spring is aproaching fast and it is usually the busiest time of the year for home buying. After a long and cold winter, many people are ready to enjoy the nicer weather and begin to shop for a new ...
01/21/2015
NAHB: Home Builder Confidence Nears 2005 High The National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB) Wells Fargo Housing Market Index reported that homebuilder confidence in sales conditions for single-family homes declined one point to a reading of 57. The NAHB Housing Market Index measures home builde...
01/20/2015
What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – January 20, 2015 Last week’s scheduled economic news was mixed. Job openings increased and jobless claims increased, and consumer sentiment rose. Mortgage rates fell across the board. Labor market conditions improved and consumer prices fell in large pa...
01/20/2015
Three Subtle Painting Tricks That Will Make Your Home Look Amazing When it comes to painting the walls of a house, sometimes subtle is best. You want to add design, color, and texture to the walls, but you don’t want it jarring to the eyes. Here are three subtle painting techniques you can try on...
01/15/2015
Budgeting: How to Manage Large Mortgage Payments when Buying a Costly, High-value Home Some people try to apply for as small of a mortgage payment as they can reasonably afford to, and there is some prudence associated with this line of thinking. After all, recent economic events have shown that ...
01/14/2015
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