Tag: Real Estate Tips
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Can I Find My Property Line With My Deed?
Need to check your property lines? Will the deed tell you what you need to know? Your deed shows you the legal description of your property. But when accuracy matters, you’ll need a surveyor to stake the land and confirm the location of your property boundaries. Let’s take a look at what the deed tells…
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Which Is the Better Starter Home: House or Condo?
You’re shopping around for a home of your own, in an area where houses cost close to half a million dollars. Along the way, you’ve found a nice-looking condo complex, with available units from $260K. You could buy a condo now, build home equity, then make a larger down payment on a house later on.…
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First Home Struggles: Parents Find New Ways to Help
Getting on the homeownership ladder has never been more challenging. Prices have soared in the past five years; wages haven’t. In expensive housing markets, young adults are approaching midlife with many resigned to renting forever. Parents, in-laws, grandparents or close friends may want to help young adults become deed holders. But they, too, are daunted…
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Live and Learn! What I Wish I Knew as a Real Estate Buyer
It’s always nice to learn from others’ mistakes and revelations, before we’re in the position to deal with similar situations ourselves. In this spirit, here are a few things first-time deed holders say they wish they knew before buying.
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Buying My First Condo. Can I Avoid Special Assessments?
You might be considering a condo as a way to break into the housing market. Or you might be downsizing, and opting for a compact lifestyle. Maybe you just want to live in a community with great amenities. You could even be planning to buy a condo to rent out. You know about the monthly…
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Divorced and Looking (For a House)
If you’re newly separated or divorced, you could be shopping for a home. Letting go of the home you shared with your former partner leads to a series of steps: from the deed you shared, to a new deed. A deed to a home of your own. Here, we spot the issues for the newly…
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What Makes a Good Real Estate Agent and How Do I Find One?
Industry pros think home prices could easily rise 2%-5% this year, judging by the Spring 2024 home buying rush already underway. If you want to take the best advantage of a promising market, you might be thinking of hiring an agent. Anyone selling or buying a home can benefit from a good agent’s support. The right…
