Home buying 101
Escrow? Jumbo loan? PMI? Before your head is swimming with these house-buying terms, get a quick vocabulary lesson in some real estate and mortgage terms.
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For $100 and a sweet 500 words, this mountain home could be yours "Obviously the goal is to pay off the mortgage" RED FEATHER LAKES - Sometimes all it takes is a little imagination to sell a home. via Fort Collins Coloradoan
Contractor barred from business An Angola contractor who allegedly took advance payments from customers and then failed to complete the promised work has agreed to stop operating a home improvement business until he repays
Get Top Dollar for Your Home With interest rates still low and a lean inventory of homes available, it's a good time to sell your home.read more...
State pension plans seeking returns in mortgage market (The State) The subprime mortgage crisis has yielded at least one benefit for states: Mortgage-related investments have become so cheap that they are luring some pension funds to buy. Retirement systems in
First-time buyers have to spend half their salary on mortgage payments (The Observer) First-time housebuyers are being forced to spend almost half of their take-home pay on mortgage repayments, compared with a little over a third of their income three years ago.read more...
Two years after Isabel, some are still struggling to rebuild Two years ago tomorrow, Debbie Allen returned to her house the morning after Tropical Storm Isabel hit to find it under water.read more...