Working as a self-employed business owner or an independent contractor can have enormous advantages. The ability to go your own way and earn money based on your experience and talents is certainly appealing, as is the chance to work from just about [...]
Buying a home is a complicated process, and it’s easy to become stressed over all the details you need to think about. However, preparing properly before you start browsing listings can remove a lot of the hassle and worry. Here are seven of the [...]
Posted on December 21st, 2020 If you’re an existing homeowner, get excited, very excited. A new forecast from Zillow says home prices are going to rise 10.3% from this November until November 2021. That’s on top of the already stellar growth [...]
When 2020 began, it already promised to be a memorable year. With Trump entering the home stretch of his first term and a crowded field of Democrats still vying for the chance to challenge him, it seemed like politics would dominate the next 12 [...]
If you are in the market for a new home, you are probably doing your research to find a loan that works well for you and your family. You may want to consider a jumbo loan, depending on the type of home that you are looking at. What is a jumbo [...]
Achieving a high FICO score is advantageous in lots of ways. While a perfect score of 850 may not be possible, why not aim for a score above 670? Although lenders use different norms to assess credit applications, a score of 670-739 is acceptable to[...]
Several factors drive homebuyers and homesellers to move: affordable home prices, more job opportunities, a lower cost of living, or the need for a change of scenery. During the pandemic, swaths of Americans have been moving for these exact reasons, [...]
Like many Americans, purchasing a home may be one of your goals in your life’s journey. After all, nearly 65% of people own their homes. As part of the home search process, you will likely need to get pre-approval for a mortgage so that you can [...]
If 2020 has shown anything, it’s that there’s no going back to life as it was prior to the pandemic. Ten months of health scares and business closures have permanently altered many people’s priorities when it comes to where they want to live. [...]
While the housing market began rebounding in May with record sales well into the fall, the rental market wasn’t so lucky, according to RentCafé’s year-end analysis published on Thursday. In addition to a condensed rental season, rental activity [...]