Building Your Dream Home: Part 3 - Finding Your Land
You have made the exciting – and brave – decision to build a new home. You have a solid design concept with all the financial ducks in a row. Yet this home purchase begins with a land purchase.
July 20, 2020
July 18, 2020
Building Your Dream Home: Part 2 - Initial Steps
Those interested in building a home best follow a certain order to end up with the home purchase they envision and simultaneously avoid surprises. The concept must be clear, i.e. about the configuration, dimensions, aesthetics and offerings of the new dwelling.
July 16, 2020
Building Your Dream Home: Part 1 - Build vs. Buy
Today we begin the first of our six part series on "Building Your Dream Home". Part 1 tackles the 'build vs. buy decision'. Over the next 12 days we'll share key steps in the process as well as share decisions to be made and tasks to be accomplished, from inception to completion.
July 14, 2020
Today's Smart Homes
Time was when a dead bolt represented the latest thing in home security; when automatic garage doors were futuristic luxuries. Yet each of those innovations grew familiar and home owners realized the many things such innovations could not do.
July 10, 2020
Alternative Lenders
The word "alternative" can mean different things in the world of home loans. It may simply refer to a funding business that does not operate out of a brick-and-mortar facility; instead, lending is conducted entirely online.
July 04, 2020
Paying Down Your Mortgage
A mortgage is either a tool to obtain financial security and prosperity…or it is a burdensome budgetary albatross that demands feeding month after month. The role of the home loan is really a matter of how a household manages debt and orders priorities.
June 12, 2020
Re-Assessing Your Homeowners Insurance
A house is also exposed to damage or destruction due to weather, faulty wiring, personal carelessness and the like. For this reason, we have insurance. Is this coverage, though, the right kind…and is it enough?
May 19, 2020
The iBuyer Phenomenon
Even the process of selling a house can now be hastened and simplified because of applied computer capacities. In fact, this latest electronic phenomenon in real estate conveyance is growing in usage and might just change the nature of the business for many years to come.
May 17, 2020
Technology's Impact on the Mortgage Process
From the start of the application process to the final settlement, hi-tech computing and telecommunications make the entire proceeding go faster and be more responsive to borrowers, at least compared to 20 years ago.