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The U.S. unemployment rate is at a 50-year low, and consumer confidence remains high. However, if you follow national news, you’ve probably heard speculation that we could be headed toward a recession. Global trade tensions and a slow down in the GDP growth rate has sparked volatility in the stock market, leading to economic uncertainty. [...]
Mortgage rates have dropped to their lowest level in 16 months! If you remember, interest rates climbed consistently throughout 2018 until the middle of November. During that time, a lot of buyers lost purchasing power and the housing market saw a slight stall as buyers pulled away from the market. If you were in the [...]
So you've decided you are really ready to find your dream home. You are looking at houses online and you're ready to make that jump to see homes in person. Who do you call? And what role does a Realtor(R) play? What should you be looking for in a Realtor(R) or lender? How do you [...]
If you are a college student (or perhaps a recent college grad) and you are dreaming of the day you can own your own home, but worried about how your student loans might affect you, here's some great information... 46% of all Millennial homebuyers in 2017 purchased their home while still paying off their student [...]
Realtor.com shared '5 Habits to Start Now if you Hope to Buy a Home.' Below are the top three from their list with a brief description. #1 - Automate Your Down Payment Savings One way to jump start your down payment savings is to automate your checking account to automatically save a small amount of [...]
In my spare time.... I like to do home improvements and renovations (on my own home or on my rental properties when they are vacant). Usually those renovations are planned, but in this particular case, we are undertaking a major task that we did not anticipate needing to do. I could go into the long [...]
It's so frustrating when I'm working as a buyer's agent, and I'm looking at a listing in the RMLS and many of the fields are left blank. The other frustration is the lack of 'commentary' provided. While the RMLS does limit the number of characters we can use to describe the home, I do my [...]
