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Listing Your Home Soon – Tips to Get You Started
Whether you’ve sold one home or ten homes, there are things that you need to know before listing your home for sale. The home selling process is one that could be as smooth as freshly poured blacktop or it could be one with twists, turns an...
New Mortgages Allow Renters To Buy With Tiny Down Payments
The down payment has been a big obstacle in recent years for renters looking to buy their first homes. A new mortgage offering aims to ease the burden. Home Partners of America, a rent to own company, is offering a new mortgage product to...
What To Expect When Visiting Chip And Joanna Gaines’ Magnolia Market
Chip and Joanna Gaines haven't just taken over the airwaves on their uber-popular HGTV program, Fixer Upper. They're taken over the city of Waco with their Magnolia Market at the Silos. Those of us who live in Texas within a few hours' driv...
Servant Leadership: What’s in It for Them?
Every human being makes up each morning thinking that they are the center of their own personal universe. Do you think that sounds cynical? Well let’s play through the following scenario. You are driving to work listening to the rad...
4 Key Questions Renters Must Ask Themselves Before Buying
Will I live there in 3 years? Renting has one advantage over buying - mobility. Otherwise you should be buying in most markets, but can you ask yourself if you'd want to be there 2 or 3 years from now. In some real estate markets the aver...
Fannie Mae just made getting a mortgage easier for some student loan borrowers
In an effort to reach out to homebuyers and owners juggling student loan and mortgage payments, Fannie Mae announced several new policies that ease some of the challenges these people face. There are three major changes that are expected...
What Happens if I Have a Bad Home Inspection?
Selling your home can be a stressful situation. It’s more about the unknown that bothers most sellers than actually moving and packing. One mystery that has to be addressed fairly early in the transaction is the home inspection. I equat...
Housing’s spring selling season is in full bloom
Springtime is always a pivotal time for the housing sector as it accounts for an out-sized portion of sales activity. Sellers don’t want prospective buyers tramping snow and mud through their homes in the winter, and buyers often don’t...