| How to Recognize Predatory Mortgage Lenders | Even though there are laws against predatory lending, it doesn't stop mortgage fraud or protect an innocent buyer from harm.
Nobody wants to overpay for a mortgage loan or... |
| How to Ask Your Parents for Money to Buy a Home | It's not always fun to ask parents for money, but sometimes it's the only way to afford to buy a home.
Especially in today's lending world -- with banks tightening mortgage... |
| What is Procuring Cause? | In an ideal real estate world, procuring cause never happens.
Procuring cause doesn't happen in an ideal world because in that fictional real estate society, every single home buyer will have... |
| Property Condition Isn't the Only Drawback to Buying Foreclosures | For novice home buyers, buying foreclosures can be riddled with pitfalls and drawbacks.
Not every successful bidder for a foreclosure property comes out ahead. Sometimes buyers end up dealing with mountains... |
| How to Get Cash for Keys During a Foreclosure | There are some tenants that you can just tell are angling to get cash for keys.
Those types are often snarly, combative and act as though the world owes them big-time... |
| Ways to Protect Your Earnest Money Deposit | In the initial excitement over making an offer to buy a new home, buyers often pay little or no attention to how their earnest money deposit is handled.
That lack of... |
| There Are Plenty of Places to Get a Mortgage | Way back in the old days, like the 1980s, home buyers didn't think twice about where to get a mortgage.
They went directly to a local bank for home financing.... |
| Real Estate Seminars Are Dog and Pony Shows | If P. T. Barnum were alive today, he would be promoting real estate seminars and hawking books and CDs on the seminar circuit.
Just when you think that all the... |
| RE/MAX Has Been In Service for 35 Years | If you think Zip Realty has a great cool site, you should check out the web site from RE/MAX.
Although Realtor.com is the most commonly searched web site used by buyers... |
| Beware of Asking Listing Agents to Show You Homes | Many homes buyers don't know what it means when they ask listing agents to show homes.
That's one of the reasons that listing agents advertise. To get calls from potential buyers.... |