If you're about to buy a home -- especially if it's your first -- it's perfectly reasonable to feel elated one moment, terrified the next, angry, indecisive, and a whole lot more. To help clue you in to what's in store, check out our guide to the various stages you'll experience on the road to ow
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12/25/2015
By Erik Braunitzer Purchasing a home is a serious investment, so homeowners should be sure to do as much as possible to maintain or even increase the value of their home. Over time many events can detract from the value of the structure, which is why it is important to counteract that with these
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12/11/2015
By Gina Roberts-Grey Diane Macdonald/Getty Images Imagine that you have found your dream home. Your offer is accepted, you close the deal, you move in. Then, just as you’ve started to make the house your own, the mail
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12/08/2015
Buying a home is a significant and exciting decision. This section provides professional real estate advice and helpful home buying tips. The Internet and real estate professionals are the top two resources most buyers turn to when searching for a home.Home buyers should always have their own ag
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12/05/2015
Home shopping makes you a little (OK, a lot) house-obsessed. Between stalking online listings, flipping through all the design magazines, and gorging on HGTV marathons, you know exactly what you want in painstaking detail.Ain’t nobody gonna say you can’t have what you want. And hey, we’re total
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12/01/2015
By Gina Roberts-Grey vectorarts/iStock When Rob Grzelka found a home to buy in the Syracuse, NY, area, his disclosure form told him all was in good working order. But the inspection didn’t reveal that the place had long sat empty, or that winged creatures had made the house their home. “We moved
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11/29/2015
By Jamie Wieb When you’re house hunting, finding an amazing house in your location of choice that doesn’t require much additional investment seems like a huge score.But is it really? Before making an offer on that picture-perfect home, take a look at the surrounding houses. If they’re all in disr
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11/28/2015
By Yuqing PanRusanovska/iStock; prosado/iStockThanksgiving evokes certain unshakable images: Long tables crammed with too much food. Beloved and bickering family members consuming way too much of that food. Overstuffed family members staggering away from the table to watch football. And once the
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11/26/2015
By Deborah Kearns It’s always a Sisyphean task to set a budget for a renovation—or at the very least an ever-moving target—but if you’re planning to put your home on the market, you’ll have a way different set of calculations than a starry-eyed new homeowner.Before you embark on a gut of your
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11/23/2015
By Beth BravemanAfter a record-setting summer selling season in many parts of the country, home sales have quieted down for the fall. If you’re putting your home on the market, you might see that as an obstacle, but it can be an opportunity. Even if there is ess traffic, there’s less competition
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11/21/2015
