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What Is Required For a Room To Be Considered a Bedroom?…
What is a bedroom, legally and what is required to consider a room in your home a bedroom? Things are not what they appear, a room with a bed in it is not necessarily a bedroom. There are many features required to call a room a bedroom. If you are buying a home or...
How To Find Out If Your Home Appraisal Is Fair And Accurate…
Homeowners often spend a lot of time and money improving their home over the years. So, when it comes time to sell, they’re hopeful that it will appraise for more than they purchased it for and invested in it. When these appraisals come back low, many times they are...
Home Buying Tips – When is the Right Time to Buy a Home?
The best time is buy a house is when there are fewer buyers than sellers which will result in lower housing prices. In the real world though, families need to buy houses for many different reasons and a lot of those reasons can’t wait for the most optimum time...
Selling a House Series #4 – Fixing Up The Inside and Outside of Your Home
So you want to sell your home! You have already got your house for the market, found a realtor, and came up with the right listing price, so now it’s time to fix up your home to make it look great inside and outside. This “Selling a House Series” is made with...
You Inherited A House, Now You’re Ready To Sell It. How Will Your Profits Be Taxed?…
When you sell your home and make a profit, you are required to pay a capital gains tax. But is this true when you sell a home you inherited from a relative that has passed away? You might be excited about inheriting property but when it comes down to it, dealing with...
Buying a House Series #8 – A Thorough Home Inspection is a Crucial Step To Buying a Home!
So you fixed your credit score, saved enough for a down payment, know what you can afford, selected a real estate agent, and found a home you like, made an offer that the seller accepted, and had the house appraised! That’s a bunch of work but now it is time for...
Buying a House Series #7 – The Bank Will Need to Appraise the House You Want to Finance
So you fixed your credit score, saved enough for a down payment, know what you can afford, selected a real estate agent, and found a home you like, and made an offer that the seller accepted! That’s a bunch of work but just because the seller accepted you offer...
4 Things You Should Know When Selling Your Home To Friends Or Family…
If you have friends or family looking to buy, you might think selling your home to them might seem like the easiest way to get the deal done – I mean working with those we love should be less complicated than wheeling and dealing with a complete stranger,...
Frequently Made Mistakes Made By People Handling a Deceased Relatives’ Estate…
As if losing someone we love isn’t hard enough, having to handle their estate just adds to the pain. On top of dealing with all of the emotions, you then have the overwhelming task of dealing with selling your loved one’s home and sorting through any property or...
Selling a House Series #3 – How to List Your Home For the Right Price
So you want to sell your home! You have already got your house for the market and found a realtor to work, so now it’s time to you list your home for the right price. If you ask too much, your home will not sell. If you ask too little, then you will be cheating...