Buying a Home, Renting vs Buying, Mortgages and More: Tips and Articles
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Articles about buying a home, renting versus buying, arranging your mortgage, and other advice that will help you get the best value. Real-Estate-Agents.com
- Glossary of Real Estate Terms
- Understand the jargon!
- Renting vs. Buying a Home
- If you are considering buying a home, one of the first decisions you need to make is whether buying a home instead of renting one is the right decision for you...
- Mistakes to Avoid
- Buying a home covers a lot of ground - including legal, financial and emotional considerations. To not educate yourself and learn from the mistakes of others only sets you up...
- Townhouses
- Townhouses often make an excellent "middle ground" between a detached single family home and a full fledged condominium because, to some degree, they offer attributes of both...
- Condominiums
- The easiest way to understand the idea of condominium ownership is to see it as an apartment you own...
- Single Family Homes
- By far the most common form of housing in North America is the single family detached home - ranging from tiny bungalows to sprawling mansions...
- Inspection Checklist
- The purpose of your personal inspection is only to eliminate those properties from consideration that have too many obvious deficiencies. It is not designed to take the place of a professional...
- The Art of Negotiation
- Real Estate is one of the few places (along with the automobile business) in North American life where some form of negotiation is the rule rather than the exception...
- Sales Contracts
- Once the perfect home has been found, it is time for the home buyer to take the step that makes so many of us tremble with fear: the sales contract...
- Mortgage Prequalification
- Why get prequalified then preapproved for a mortgage before you begin your search for a home? Because three people will benefit from your preapproval: you, your agent, and the seller...
- Choosing a Mortgage
- Choosing among the homes that may be available is hard enough - then you need to make a choice from the myriad of mortgages that are offered in today's market...
- Mortgage Hints
- Spending some time reviewing your budget (or developing one if you don't already have it) and sharpening your money saving skills can bring big rewards later. A coordinated budget...
- Mortgage Life Insurance
- When purchasing a new home that requires a mortgage, many consumers default to buying their life insurance from the bank or mortgage company...
- Home Inspections
- Depending on the type of financing you choose, there should be either two or three separate inspections of the home you plan on buying...
- The Final Walkthrough
- At some point (shortly before the date of final closing) it will be necessary for you to make a final inspection of the home that you are buying...
- The Closing
- After the searching for a home is done, the negotiations have been completed, the house has been inspected, and the mortgage has been applied for and committed to, the focus suddenly turns...
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