Jan 27th 2011 10:14AM
With the housing market on the slow path to recovery, many brokers continue to offer low-cost refinances -- a mortgage payment revamping that covers closing costs -- to sweeten the deal for homeowners. According to mortgage broker Kirk Tatom of Dallas-based Tatom Lending, a low-cost refinance also referred to as a... Continue Reading »
Sep 2nd 2010 3:53PM
Patty Robinson got a great deal on her townhouse in Charlotte, N.C. It needed some updating, but she didn't mind investing in new carpeting, paint and window treatments, because that would make it feel truly like her own. She planned ahead and was careful to take a detailed inventory of her belongings so that she would... Continue Reading »
Jun 29th 2010 7:19PM
#postcontentcontainer, #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-0{width:300px;height:250px;background:black url(http://pthumbnails.5min.com/3114706/155735263_3_300_250.jpg) no-repeat center center;} Eddie Kim's parents made savvy residential real estate purchases in New Jersey 15 years before the housing bubble burst, so he... Continue Reading »
Feb 23rd 2010 4:30PM
Homeowners are often a sunny (we won't say "irrational") lot that tend to believe their homes are more valuable than they really are. Year after year, in survey after survey, they make it clear that they regard a two-room shack as a Swiss chalet, their mini-McMansion a bottomless piggy bank, and their remodeling spend as... Continue Reading »
