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Three Home Trends for the 2022 Market
Posted at: 1/10/2022 5:06 PM
Trend #1: Multi-purpose rooms! People are wanting to spend more time at home and that doesn’t appear to be ending anytime soon. Any rooms or open spaces that you can use in a variety of ways will hold a higher value to potential clients. The larger the room or space, the more uses you can find which drives more value. Some examples of those spaces are: home office, game room, spare bedrooms, home gym, craft room, a study, or a finished basement. If you are currently viewing homes to buy, make
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Your Most Valuable Home Buying Resource (And Beyond!)
Posted at: 7/5/2018 2:26 PM
Making the choice to purchase a home is the decision to pave a better future for yourself. It’s a decision that’s equally exhilarating and terrifying. Your home is a long term decision and one of the biggest transactions that you will ever complete. Purchasing a home is much more momentous than purchasing a car, planning a wedding or even selecting a university. Your home is that special place where memories will be made, and loved ones cherished. When it comes to making a purchase that is going
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Posted at: 7/3/2018 2:44 PM
Buying a home is the biggest transaction of your life. A home costs at least triple the amount of a car and a mortgage lasts five times as long as an auto loan. As one of the biggest purchases of your life, choosing the right team has never been more important. Most homebuyers know that they need to choose a real estate agent, preferably one who is knowledgeable in the area that they are looking in, but many forget that they also need to choose who is going to finance their loan. This is a proce
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Posted at: 6/7/2018 1:25 PM
Your first home purchase is a whirlwind of emotion. Time stands still but moves too fast at the same time. It’s just as scary as it is exciting. You’re itching to get into your own home. You can see the welcome mat and your name on the mailbox. You have high hopes that things will go as envisioned. What you don’t realize is that when you choose the wrong lender, dreams don’t always come to fruition. I’ve had the privilege of helping people achieve their home ownership dreams, even after they we
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Rebuilding Your Credit After Bankruptcy
Posted at: 5/14/2018 3:29 PM
The dust has settled after your bankruptcy: now it’s time to start rebuilding your credit. This is something that takes time to do, especially in the early months-even years that follow. The key factor in building your post-bankruptcy credit is to add positive data to your credit report; it’s going to outweigh your past negative events. One of the first steps that you can take to add positive data on to your credit report is to open a secured credit card. A secured credit card is a card th
