Ignoring all the key things to fix when you’re selling your home is the quickest way to scare off prospective buyers. You don’t want cracked tile or leaky faucets to keep you from selling your home at a good price. If you do not fix problems now, they will just come up after the home [...]
Here's a question every homeowner should ask: "What are the best ways to build home equity?" Americans continue to see real estate, and building home equity, as the best long-term investment, but not everyone understands the best ways to build home equity. Annual Gallup polls show that real estate, or building home equity, continues to beat out [...]
Planning for the future before you buy a home can be challenging, especially if you’re a first-time homebuyer in your late 20s or early 30s. Looking for a home in a good school district with multiple bedrooms may seem premature, especially if you’re single, but thinking ahead could pay off down the road. After all, [...]
Sheri Koones, Miki Cook, Carl Seville and Marcus de la Fleur joined Ilyce to discuss how green building can be sustainable for the Earth and your pocket book on the Ilyce Glink Show on April 20, 2014 on WSB Radio. Ilyce's show always contains various forms of personal finance advice but she invited four engaged and intelligent professionals to [...]
On this week’s show, I had four experts join me to discuss how green building can be sustainable for the Earth and affordable for you. Green building has become deeply associated with high costs. So experts, Sheri Koones, Miki Cook, Carl Seville and Marcus de la Fleur explain why it becomes so expensive and strategies [...]
What home feature do buyers desire the most? A laundry room. Although laundry is decidedly not an exciting chore, having a laundry room is a home feature buyers desire. They consider it the home feature buyers desirable the most, according to a recent survey from the National Association of Home Builders. Ninety-three percent of buyers [...]
Home closing costs can be a huge headache, but if buyers and sellers know about how much they should expect to pay it’s much easier to plan ahead. There are many types of closing costs, and not all of them apply to every deal. Fees may be higher or lower depending on the particular home [...]
Are you paying too much in property taxes? Chances are your answer is yes. Well, there are three steps you can take to reduce your property taxes. Most homeowners feel overburdened by ever-rising property tax costs and want to take steps to reduce property taxes, though not every homeowner’s taxes are as oppressive as others. [...]
Mortgage lenders recommend spending between 28 and 36 percent of your gross monthly income on debt payments. While this is considered to be perfectly affordable, it’s stunning that one-third of the homes for sale right now are unaffordable by historical standards. More than half the homes on the market in seven major American metros are [...]
Engagement ring or down payment? Apparently young women are increasingly opting for the latter. According to a survey of 1,000 people from ERA Real Estate, half of young women would rather have their mate propose with a plan to put money toward the down payment of a house than an engagement ring and 60 percent would [...]
