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Unscheduled Home Repairs: Are You Financially Prepared?
By Michele Lerner No matter how well you maintain your home, it’s inevitable that eventually either age or a manmade or natural disaster will damage some part of your property. Whether you need to...
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10 Tips for Real Estate Auctions
This article originally appeared on HSH.com. The traditional idea that real estate auctions are only for bargain-basement foreclosures or million-dollar mansions has changed in recent years. These...
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Thinking of buying a house this spring to take advantage of record low interest rates? If so, you are not alone as most reports indicate buying activity has picked up in most U.S. markets at a time...
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Standards, Shutdowns, and Mortgage Applications
Late last month, the Washington Post published that in August there was an increase in the percentage of successful home mortgages for applicants with FICO® Scores less than 700 – up almost double 2012...
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Breached, Bothered and Bewildered?
The LA Times recently published an article featuring mortgage credit experts who warned “that the recent massive data breaches at Target, Neiman Marcus and other retailers could have significant...
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Mortgage Tips: 9 Ways to Lower Your Monthly Payment
We often hear information on how homeowners can use tactics like refinancing to lower their mortgage payments. But what about homebuyers? What tactics can you use to ensure you start out with the...
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Do you know if your HELOC is about to reset?
If you don’t, you should look into this sooner rather than later. During the housing boom of the mid 2000s many people took out home equity lines of credit (HELOCs) for greater financial...
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5 Things to Do Before You Go House Hunting
Looking for your first home to buy is an exciting time in anybody’s life. It’s also a very daunting process, after all this is likely to be the biggest purchasing decision you’ll make in your entire...
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Your guide to the different types of mortgages
Home buying is at once an extremely exciting and highly daunting process. One of the most important decisions you’ll need to make right at the start is choosing what type of mortgage to apply for. The...
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The scores that count in mortgage lending
So you consider yourself a well-informed consumer. You have been educating yourself about credit scores, the credit process and how lenders evaluate credit for mortgage loan applications as you are...
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