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Loan Scam Red Flags For Homeowners

By | March 12th, 2012|

As more homeowners are struggling with buying a home, selling a home, or facing foreclosure, they’re more at risk for a loan scam. Watch out for these red flags for home loan and mortgage loan scams.   If people are desperate, they will be willing to give money to someone that is selling an idea [...]

Desperate Homeowners Tricked by Home Loan Scams

By | March 9th, 2012|

Lots of homeowners are struggling through the real estate recession—their home values have been slashed, their mortgages are underwater, they’ve lost jobs, and they can’t pay their mortgages. Sound familiar? These homeowners are facing foreclosure or are attempting a last change loan modification—and they’re getting desperate. The next year doesn’t seem to be looking any [...]

Signs of Life from a Struggling Real Estate Market

By | March 2nd, 2012|

Despite a slight decline in property values month-to-month, industry experts are cautiously optimistic that the housing market will continue its slow recovery. Low mortgage rates, combined with positive outlook reports from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and improving unemployment numbers, lead many to believe we’re on the right track toward more Americans buying a home. [...]

Buying a Home: Are You Ready?

By | February 24th, 2012|

With spring just around the corner, millions of families will be surfing the real estate sites, looking for their dream home. They’ll educate themselves about local price trends, and they’ll review their financial situation to try to answer one question: “Is this the year to be buying a home?” However, they may be asking the [...]

Using An LLC To Buy Rental Property

By | February 23rd, 2012|

You may want to use an LLC to buy rental properties, it may be more cost effective to own in your own name with good insurance in your name. Q: I recently purchased a rental property in Illinois. The title is held jointly by my wife and me. We got an investment mortgage for 80 [...]

Buying or Selling Your Home? Local Real Estate Markets

By | February 17th, 2012|

Need another reason not to pay too much attention to the 2012 forecasts that you read in the news? Such forecasts are almost always national in scope, and there is no such thing as a national real estate market. All real estate is local. Relying on a national real estate prediction to decide on to [...]

Buying or Selling Your Home? Real Estate Price Predictions

By | February 16th, 2012|

Are you thinking about buying a home or selling a home this year? The experts might be able to help you anticipate what home market prices will be in the next spring and summer. However, unfortunately, a lot of those same experts have been very wrong in recent years, and in 2012 few are going [...]

Using a Reverse Mortgage to Purchase a Second Home

By | February 15th, 2012|

You can use a reverse mortgage to purchase and buy a second home, but you should also investigate the use of a home equity line of credit (HELOC) or a second mortgage. Q: We have a home that is fully paid for in Cape Coral, Fla. on the water. Both my wife and I are [...]

Should I Prepay My Mortgage?

By | February 14th, 2012|

You'll often hear people ask whether they should prepay their mortgages, and for many it makes sense to prepay. Q: I hear and see so many financial advisors and experts recommending that people pay off their mortgages by making an extra mortgage payment each year. The reality is that it would be easier for the [...]

Repaying the First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit

By | February 13th, 2012|

If you took advantage of the first time homebuyer tax credit on your tax return for 2008 filed in 2009 and sell your home, you may have to repay the balance of the tax credit. Q: I am 29 years old and my husband and I bought our first house in June 2008 using the [...]

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