You found your dream home, or so you think. The offer you made to the homeowner was accepted. Provided you didn't waive your rights to an inspection or offer to purchase the house "as-is", you now have to hire an inspector to make sure it checks out A-OK. Hopefully there won't be any major flaws to make you think twice about your offer. If [...]

It’s so exciting to finally find a new house to purchase. But once you get that offer accepted and apply for the mortgage you’ve been pre-approved for, you need to be aware of a few things so you can close on the house.  [...]

HOME SHOPPING

If you haven’t heard, nationwide, our housing industry is in a seller’s market.

That means there are more home buyers than there are sellers. Sellers have the goods that buyers want, and buyers desperately want housing.

Rental prices have gone up more than 4% nationwide just in this past year and in various [...]

If you are ready to buy a house, you will need to complete a few tasks first.

1. Talk to your mortgage banker. Without a pre-approval it is not 100% clear what you can afford. If you are paying $3000 each month on rent, you might think you can purchase a home with payments over 30 years of $3000 each month. However, you need to qualify for
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A seller’s market exists when there are more buyers and less inventory. Here's how to be a prepared buyer.