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How much work should you do on your house before selling?

For home owners, one of the toughest questions to answer is the amount of time and money that you put into your house before selling it.  For those living in their house for years and set to make a large sum or profit, there is little doubt that minor work on [...]

Should you wait to buy a house until you are completely secure where you are?

In the majority of cities throughout the United States, there is little doubt that most housing markets are in favor of the buyer.  As a buyer, you have a lot of people that need to sell or have a strong desire to sell.  And with the amount of empty houses [...]

Should you upgrade your house to help sell it?

There was a recent Wall Street Journal Article that talked about if you should upgrade your house and if it would be worth doing.  With the way the market is looking right now in a lot of areas throughout the country, it definitely is a dangerous gamble.  There are [...]

The good and bad of a Homeowner’s Association

For those who have looked for a house or own a house, many have either good or bad feelings about a Homeowner’s Association.  There are advantages and disadvantages of being in an HOA so I thought I would talk more about why you would look for one in a home [...]

Foreclosures and Bargains: Is it possible?

If you have had a chance to watch any of the real estate infomercials over the past years, many times the people on the videos talk about foreclosures. They mention that they get the greatest deal from a foreclosures because the banks just want to get rid of them. [...]

The advantages of renting vs. buying a house

One of the things that I feel I got into when my eventual wife and I lived in an apartment is that I thought we were just throwing away money.  Yes, the rent did cost us $790 and we were not building up any equity.  As I had read in [...]

The difference in a minor bathroom remodel

When my wife and I moved into the house were are currently at, I was happy just to be living in a house.  There were obviously some things that we wanted to do over time and luckily, I have been able to start tackling these things.  One of the biggest areas was [...]

Is this spring the time to buy real estate?

Business Week has put an article together talking about this spring being the time to buy a house and to get into real estate.  While there are some aspects of that I agree with, could this be Business Week just trying to help push the market positively?  I really can’t [...]

Problems with realtors in your search for a house

I will be honest and say that my interactions with realtors during the housing search was someone limited.  We worked with two during our house search and when looking back, there definitely would be some thing that I think we would do differently.  What I did beforehand was interview and [...]

Money & Fitness Question of the Day - Living Situation

With the gloomy forecast of the housing market, the question today revolves around your living situation.

What type of residence are you living in now (House, apartment, condo, etc.)
Has the housing market affected you in anyway in terms of your current property or potential to get into [...]

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