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10 Real Estate Tips for Home Sellers

When you bought your first home, you probably felt a mixture of excitement and worry, and you might have even wondered, “What have I gotten myself into?” However, those feelings disappeared as you settled in and began to call that house home. Whether you’ve lived in this house for a few years or a few […]
11 Things Most People Forget To Do When Selling Their Homes

You’ve decided to sell your home, hired an excellent real estate agent, and are hard at work making repairs and changes to ensure that your property stands out. Preparing to sell your home is a time-consuming process. There’s a lot to consider before listing your home for sale, from home repair tasks to having your […]
Landscaping Tasks To Take Care Of Before Putting Your Home On The Market

When it comes to selling your house, first impressions are everything, so make sure you make a good one. When potential buyers visit a house, one of the first items they would notice is the landscaping. It’s important to make thoughtful decisions when focusing on outdoor home and yard renovations to help improve home value, […]
4 Best Ways to Increase the Value of Your Home To Sell Fast

If you are planning to sell your home, this is the perfect time to do it. There is low inventory in the housing market, thus increasing buyer competition. Houses are selling in a hot market. Regardless of the pace and opportunity for potential buyers, there are always steps you should take to prepare your home […]

10 Real Estate Tips for Home Sellers When you bought your first home, you probably felt a mixture of excitement and worry, and you might have even wondered, “What have I gotten myself into?” However, those feelings disappeared as you settled in and began to call that house home. Whether you’ve lived in this house for a few years or a few […]

11 Things Most People Forget To Do When Selling Their Homes You’ve decided to sell your home, hired an excellent real estate agent, and are hard at work making repairs and changes to ensure that your property stands out. Preparing to sell your home is a time-consuming process. There’s a lot to consider before listing your home for sale, from home repair tasks to having your […]

Landscaping Tasks To Take Care Of Before Putting Your Home On The Market When it comes to selling your house, first impressions are everything, so make sure you make a good one. When potential buyers visit a house, one of the first items they would notice is the landscaping. It’s important to make thoughtful decisions when focusing on outdoor home and yard renovations to help improve home value, […]

4 Best Ways to Increase the Value of Your Home To Sell Fast If you are planning to sell your home, this is the perfect time to do it. There is low inventory in the housing market, thus increasing buyer competition. Houses are selling in a hot market. Regardless of the pace and opportunity for potential buyers, there are always steps you should take to prepare your home […]

What Is Annual Percentage Rate (APR)? Annual Percentage Rate or APR is the rate of interest charged on a loan, a credit card, or a separate credit line per year. It is a proportion of the overall balance to be charged. When you borrow money, all interest you pay raises your buying costs. Credit cards are a form of credit and […]

10 Great Real Estate Tips for Home Sellers Whether you decide it’s time to sell your home you’ve lived in and loved for a decade or for only a couple of years, you might experience a roller coaster of emotions. So, here are 10 great real estate tips that will help you get started. Tip #1 Finding the Best listing agent Absolutely […]

MUST-HAVES to Make Yours The Best Home on the Market While we are in a seller’s market and homes fly off the shelves, this does not guarantee that your house would sell easily. That is why having your house sell is a big challenge nowadays. In reality, a house that needs repairs & improvements might spend a longer time on the market, and because of […]

Mortgage 101: What Is A Stated Mortgage? A stated mortgage used to be more common and at one time most of them completely vanished from the lending landscape. A ‘stated’ mortgage simply means the degree of verification the lender applies when reviewing a loan application. A stated loan is one where certain aspects of the information listed on the loan application are […]

Want To Attract Sellers? Focus On The Kitchen The kitchen is one of the most important rooms in a house when it comes to home value and appealing to buyers while trying to sell. For this reason, it’s important to pay special attention to your kitchen when preparing a house to sell or building a house for the first time. The following is […]

How To Get Your Landscaping Ready To Sell Your Home Your front yard is the red carpet inviting buyers into the beauty that is your home. If it’s rugged, messy, and unkempt, buyers will take one look and then keep on driving to the next property on their list. Don’t let that happen by making your front yard luscious and as amazing as the inside […]

Five Questions Your Loan Officer Is Certain To Ask You Whether you are purchasing your first home, refinancing a current home loan or buying your tenth investment property, a loan officer is certainly going to task you with collecting what seems like a mountain of paperwork that will go along with your loan application. If you know what these things are in advance, it can […]

Remodeling Your Home To Make It More Comfortable As You Age As you get older, you may find that your home needs to be remodeled a little bit to accommodate lifestyle changes or accessibility needs. Studies have shown that over 40% of homeowners plan to stay in their homes into their 80’s. Because of this, it’s a great idea to gradually adapt your home as you […]

Moving? Avoid These Pitfalls No matter how close or far your upcoming move is, one thing stays the same. It is stressful. Less than reputable movers can give you bait and switch price quotes, you might pack stuff you have no intention of keeping, making packing more difficult, or you may not leave yourself enough time to get everything […]

The Differences Between a Hard Credit Pull and a Soft Credit Pull There’s lots of information about you listed inside your credit report. Of course, most of the information pertains to your credit history. In fact, nearly two-thirds of your credit score is made up of payment history along with comparing current account balances with credit lines. For consumers who want to improve or repair their credit, […]

Great Vegetables For Your Winter Garden Even if you think you may have missed the window planting a winter vegetable garden, the good news is the weather in the Silicon Valley is so great that it’s not too late! Here are some great vegetables you can plant now that will keep your home garden plentiful over the winter. Beans Beans of […]

Want a Healthier Lifestyle? Try These Five Tips As the New Year beings, we all have a vision of us being our best selves and want to know how to be healthy, but at times it can seem like an unattainable goal. Where do you even start? Do you need to overhaul your entire life in one shot? The answer, happily is no. […]

What to Do When Your Spouse Has Bad Credit When a couple decides to buy a house together, it’s a very important step in their life journey. There’s lots to do from gathering all the paperwork, to applying for a preapproval, to shopping for a new home, and plenty of stuff in between. It’s certainly a big decision, especially for a couple buying their […]

Keeping Your Home Safe From COVID-19 There are a continuing growing number of cases of COVID-19 in our nation and every state is making policies to distance ourselves from each other in public spaces. But how can people make sure that everyone in their home is taking the best possible action to protect themselves from the virus and delay further spreading? […]

You Can’t Outsmart The Market Are you getting ready to refinance your mortgage, but are waiting for rates to fall just one more time? If you are, you aren’t the only one. Many consumers begin following the market news and do tons of research trying to determine exactly the perfect time to lock in their lower interest rates. The truth […]

Adding a Little Luxury to Your Home Expensive homes tend to sell better and seem more attractive to people overall. People love luxurious touches that speak of elegance and impeccable taste. This, of course, is great for very expensive homes, but is it possible to achieve this on a budget? Indeed it is. There are many ways you can make affordable changes […]

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