This guest post is from William Cowie, who has contributed to Get Rich Slowly and other personal finance blogs. He also blogs about investing and offers a free Investing Basics course on Bite the Bullet Investing.
Everywhere you look, the story’s the same: the value of your house is going up. The National Association of Realtors [...]
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Home prices are up: good news or bad?
Modified on May 29th, 2013 - 13 Comments
Filed under: House & Home, Mortgages, Moving, Real Estate
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Rules for New Homebuyers
While cleaning out some old bookmarks, I ran across a link to one of Ron Lieber’s articles on home buying from back in 2009. In it, he discusses seven rules for first-time homebuyers. And even though the article is a few years old, it’s still relevant.
Start with the basics
For starters, put 20% down on your [...]
Modified on February 4th, 2013 - 5 Comments
Filed under: Real Estate
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Deeply Downsized Domiciles
I wasn’t exactly born yesterday. But among the misty watercolor memories clouding my brain pan, I retain a clear memory of the kind of homes that many middle-class people lived in way back in my 1960s-era childhood.
They often were very small. Three tiny bedrooms, a phonebooth sized bathroom, a kitchen just larger than a card [...]
Modified on February 4th, 2013 - 9 Comments
Filed under: Real Estate
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Giving Distressed Homes New Leases on Life
As with so many other things, the world of real estate tends to move in cycles. For proof, just look at the markets for single-family homes and apartments.
It wasn’t that many years ago that every American was buying a home. If you didn’t own a home, people demanded to know why. What were you waiting [...]
Modified on June 10th, 2012 - One Comment
Filed under: Real Estate
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Should You Buy a Home Now?
This is a guest post from Sarah Gilbert.
The story of one mortgage
I got my mortgage statement in the mail a few weeks ago. I bought my Portland, Oregon home 10 years ago on a busy street in an up-and-coming neighborhood with what I thought was a super-low interest rate: 5.25%. It was a five-year ARM, [...]
Modified on May 16th, 2012 - 15 Comments
Filed under: Mortgages, Real Estate
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How to Find the Best Rental Property Manager
If you need to move but don’t want to sell your home, you have other options. The rental market has been heating up, and rents have been keeping up with (if not outpacing) inflation, rising almost 3% annually around the country. Renting your home instead of selling it may be a great way to make [...]
Modified on April 27th, 2012 - 10 Comments
Filed under: Real Estate, Saving & Investing
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Why I’ll Never Be a Landlord
Over the weekend, I had an epiphany. My wife and I were talking about our investments when I lamented that I wish I had the temperament for investing in rental properties, but… I just can’t handle dealing with other people’s incompetence.
And there, in a single sentence, I summed up the conflicted feelings about real estate [...]
Modified on April 15th, 2012 - 21 Comments
Filed under: Real Estate, Saving & Investing
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Why You Should Consider Becoming a Landlord
My job is requiring me to move to a new town. So, my wife and I are faced with what seems to recently be the newest typical American family dilemma. What should we do with the home that we bought almost four years ago? While it can be hard to figure out whether to buy [...]
Modified on April 1st, 2012 - 15 Comments
Filed under: Mortgages, Real Estate, Saving & Investing
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Bank of America Turning Mortgage Holders into Renters
The latest news on the mortgage front is that Bank of America is testing a new program where they turn (former) homeowners into renters. Yes, really. It’s called the “Mortgage to Lease” program and it aims to convert those who are behind on their mortgages into leasees.
When I first hear this news, I was blown [...]
Filed under: Debt Reduction, Mortgages, Real Estate
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More Thoughts on Renting Your Fun
I’ve written in the past about how I think you should own your investments and rent your fun. I mostly think about this when it comes to vacation properties, but it can be applied equally well to things like boats and other major “big boy toys.”
Over the weekend, we nailed down our Spring Break plans. [...]
Modified on March 12th, 2012 - 7 Comments
Filed under: Real Estate, Saving & Investing, Travel
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