Best Practices
How Your Credit Score Affects Your Mortgage Rate
If you’re like most borrowers, you don’t want your mortgage payments to be any larger than necessary. As a home buyer, you may be…
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Managing Your Financial Paperwork
While fighting off a rising tide of paper cannot solve all your financial woes, it can certainly make a difference. Being better organized means…
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Evaluating Insurance Coverage
There are a lot of different kinds of insurance. Smoke detectors and seatbelts, fire extinguishers and storm cellars, generators and evacuation routes are all…
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Homeowners Insurance on a Budget
If you’re like most home buyers, you’ve stretched your budget to the max. You’ve comparison-shopped every aspect of your move, decided to forego your…
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5 More Things to Know Before Buying Your First Home
In previous posts, we’ve offered some solid tips for first-time home buyers: Ten Tips for First-Time Home Buyers and Ready to buy your first home? What will the bank…
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5 Good Reasons to Refi
When interest rates are low, as they are now, you may hear friends and neighbors talking about refinancing. So what is refinancing, anyway, and…
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Building a New Home: How Much Will it Cost?
If a new home is in your future – or in your dreams – cost is certain to be one of your primary concerns.…
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3 Tips to Ease Stress for Home Buyers
The home buying process can be stressful, especially in today’s market. Because there is so little inventory in most areas, we call this a “seller’s”…
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Getting Organized at Tax Time
Preparing our taxes is a task we’ll all have to face at some point this spring. As you sit down to gather your financial…
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