Today’s Wiki Wednesday Feature: Pros and Cons of Selling Your Home Without an Agent

OK, now here’s a twist: real estate agent Lydia Player of Virginia Cook Realtors down in Dallas, TX, writes a Real Estate Guide article about the Pros and Cons of Selling Your Home Without an Agent. Lydia writes a thorough, well thought-out [...]

Today’s Wiki Wednesday Feature: Who Will Take Care of Abandoned Foreclosure Pets?

(Photo courtesy EForeclosureMagazine.com) 
In the past few months, we’ve blogged about some unimaginable stories that have emerged from the foreclosure crisis, from a family forced to live in a camper to people who’ve lost their homes and all of their possessions. Add another heartbreaking story [...]

Today’s Wiki Wednesday Feature: How Important is a Home Inspection?
If you are buying a home, getting a home inspection is perhaps one of the single-most important “checks” you need to conduct to make sure the home is safe and secure. If you are selling a home, however, is having an inspection as important? Some people [...]

Today’s Wiki Wednesday Feature: Selling Your Home When You Have Young Children
Considering how volatile the market is right now, sellers are doing everything they possibly can to make their homes more appealing to potential buyers. Buyers, on the other hand, can afford to be choosy.
Thinking about putting your home on the market? Consider the target [...]

Today’s Wiki Wednesday Feature: Determine Whether Your Loan Officer is Reputable
Once you actually find a home to buy, the last thing you have time and energy to vet is whether your loan officer is reputable. Just show me the money, honey and let’s get on with it.
It turns out, however, that this is the [...]

Today’s Wiki Wednesday Feature: A Little Trick to Find a Bargain
While doing my weekly pass through the Real Estate Guide, I stumbled upon an article with a title that instantly caught my attention: A Little Trick to Find a Bargain. What could that be about? Ever the bargain hunter, I was intrigued.
It turns out that [...]

Today’s Wiki Wednesday Feature: Owning vs. Renting a Home

The mortgage crisis has sent the real estate industry into a tailspin with lots of potential buyers standing in the wings, waiting for the bottom to appear. In the meantime, we all need to live somewhere. What’s the option if not buying a home? Obviously, renting. Today’s Wiki Wednesday [...]

Today’s Wiki Wednesday Feature: A Rare Economic Time — Low Rates and Low Prices
Regardless of how bad the real estate market is for people who are selling — or, trying to sell their homes — the flip side is that buyers are in the catbird seat, shopping and choosing homes with the confidence of a [...]

Today’s Wiki Wednesday Feature: Homeowners Insurance

If you own a home, you are no doubt familiar with the world of homeowners insurance. But do you know exactly what your policy covers — and doesn’t cover? The recent catastrophic flooding in the Midwest serves as a reminder that it’s extremely important to check your policy and understand [...]

Today’s Wiki Wednesday Feature: Foreclosure Fraud

Double whammy: Not only are you in danger of losing your home to foreclosure, but you desperately relied on the services of a “foreclosure rescuer” to help keep you afloat during this mortgage crisis. Within months, you realize that your “rescuer” is actually a fraudster. So not only do you [...]

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