Step-by-Step Home Buying
- Don't Buy a Car - or Did You Already?
- Things Not To Do Before Buying a Home
- Reasons to Delay Buying a Home
- Are you Buying a House? Or a Home?
- Why Buying a Home is a Good Idea
- The Business Cycle and Buying a Home
- Why Search for A Realtor?
- Looking Ahead - Buyer's Remorse
- Comparable Sales and Your Offer Price
- Factors Affecting Your Offer Price
- Offering to Purchase Real Estate- the Basics
- Writing Offers - Property Safeguards
- How Financing Affects Your Offer
- How FHA and VA Affects Your Offer
- Agreeing with the Seller on Some Services
- The Home Inspection
- Buying a Home for Resale Value - Location
- Buying a Home for Resale Value - the House
- Did You Make a Huge Mistake?
Buying Hints & Insights
- Preforeclosure flipping: The key to real estate riches
- When Your Home's Value is Less Than the Mortgage
- Should You Buy a Home in Today's Market?
- The Home "Wealth" Effect
- Closing at the End of the Month.
- What is the Multiple Listing Service?
- How the Lockbox Helps Buyers and Sellers
- Location, Location, Location - Means...what?
- When Market Value Outpaces Appraised Value
- What Goes With the Home When You Sell or Buy?
- Negotiating Contingencies in Real Estate Contracts
- If you bought cars the way you bought houses
- Asking the Seller to Pay Your Closing Costs
- Where is an Agent's "True Value"..?
- The Earnest Money Deposit
Submitted by Professionals
- Real Estate Lament
- A Broker's Responsibility
- Buying Homes in California
- How do I Prepare for Closing?
- Buying Bank Owned Properties
- Buying Your Country Dream Home
- Negotiating the Real Estate Contract
- Choose Agent Carefully Before Buying Home
- Buyer's Brokerage -- Boon or Bane?
- So You Want to Buy a Home?
- Your Escrow and YOU
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Moving Resources
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Property Search
There are over a million homes for sale at any given time. Most national sites only have a partial or outdated listing of those homes - but they don't tell you that. We do. So, "property surf" on a local site with MLS access. Our Property Search Directory contains such local sites.
On-Line Listings
Some local agents put their listings online and these listings often contain more information than the MLS database. It might be fun to cruise through those sites, if only you knew where they were. Use our Property Search Directory.
Find an Agent
Looking at property online is fun for awhile, but sooner or later you get bored and need to look at the real thing. We suggest you use care in hiring an agent as this is the largest purchase of your life. Looking online is a good place to start.
Housing Market & Appreciation
Once a month we analyze the current housing market and prepare quite a few graphs on housing appreciation in different regions of the country.
Ask the Experts
You email us a question - we answer it, usually the same day. Some we answer directly, some we send to local experts.
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