Six Tips To Selling In A Down Market
Selling in a down market is always difficult. Here are six tips to help you sell your home successfully during the hard times.
The Simplest Guide to Successful Selling
You are ready to sell your investor house and collect the benefits. Hopefully. But your profits are razor-thin, so you don’t want to involve a broker who will reduce the...
Sound Familiar? House Flippers Hit A Snag
Uh oh. Haven’t we seen this movie already? As many of you undoubtedly know, much of the housing “recovery” has been concentrated in what is euphemistically referred to as “cash...
Move Fast to Sell Your Home Before Thanksgiving
Some buyers preferred the more laid-back, relaxed environment of the holidays because they have few competing buyers for properties they are interested in touring and possibly placing an offer to...
Flip-flopping on Flipping
A recent report contends that short-term investor profits from home flipping are declining. I view this as good news, at least in my opinion.
Is Housing Market Following Stock Market Pattern?
The stock market crashed. Is the housing market next? That’s not my opinion. And if you asked me, I would say I don’t know if that will happen.
Do You Have Enough Personal Liability Insurance In Your Homeowners’ Policy?
Homeowners insurance protects you and your family for both your house and personal property in the event of property damage or loss of personal items. Typically, homeowners’ insurance policies have...
For Women Only
If you ask me why I think this blog is for men, I really don’t have an easy answer. Maybe because I think of do-it-yourself men wearing tool belts strapped...
PrimeRates Market Talk: Slow Start As Lack Of Data Continues:
Still no end in sight in the latest Washington standoff. Futures are down a bit as the prospect of no official data makes analysts antsy–what to blame (or credit) the...
5 Tips to Winterize Your Home
Completing projects to winterize your home can pay off in a number of ways. Not only will you also be able to keep warm in the winter but you can...
Tighter Rules for Reverse Mortgages Goes Into Effect
Beginning October 1, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) has put into effect major changes to the agency’s reverse mortgage program also known as the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program....
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Close to Repayment
Fannie Mae posted record second quarter profits. Those profits resulted in a dividend being paid back to the US Treasury.
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In This weeks market talk Jack Boylan discusses the weekly goings on in the market including whats happening in Europe and China
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Ex-Fed Official: Sorry About All That Quantitative Easing Stuff
an Ex-Federal Reserve official, Andrew Huszar, has come out against the endless Quantitative Easing programs.
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PrimeRates Market Talk: Jobs, The Fed And France
About that government shutdown… Jobs surprised on the upside in a big way this morning with the October number beating the estimates by a whopping 100,000.
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Investing in Real Estate With No Money
If you want to invest in real estate and have no money saved or set aside, sell your snowmobile or your jet ski or your sailboat.
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Can Regular People Still Buy A Home?
The answer to that question is yes…but. After the housing bubble of 2008, housing prices plummeted, especially in certain overheated markets (i.e. Las Vegas, Miami, etc.).
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