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- Buying a House: Know Your Country?
- How to Avoid Houses with a Flood Risk
- What is a Mortgage Servicer?
- How the Pandemic is Affecting Housing Prices
- Why Move-In Ready Homes Sell Faster
- What’s Your Homeowner Personality?
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How to Avoid Houses with a Flood Risk
The average American can expect to move 11.4 times during his or her lifetime according to the US Census. You probably moved while living with your parents. Once you finish school, you get to pick where you live. This decision is getting more complicated. Global warming is increasing the flood …
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What is a Mortgage Servicer?
You search for the lowest mortgage rate. You spend weeks giving your mortgage lender the required documentation. You get through your closing and think you're done. About a week after closing, most buyers get a letter from their lender introducing a mortgage servicer who you're to mail your mortgage …
How the Pandemic is Affecting Housing Prices
Now that we've survived the first six months of the pandemic, life is resuming ... in new ways. We're able to control some changes like where we buy groceries and when/where to eat out. Other things we can't control like housing prices affected by steep rises in key building materials like lumber, …
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Why Move-In Ready Homes Sell Faster
Moving is pretty stressful so most home buyers want a house that is move-in ready. So what does this mean? In the strictest sense, a house must have a certificate of occupancy or CO issued by a local government agency saying a house is ready to be occupied. COs work for new construction …
What’s Your Homeowner Personality?
Identifying Your Homeowner Personality Here's how you can identify your homeowner personality. In fact, how you deal with homeowner tasks will be similar to how you handle other responsibilities. Proactive or Reactive - Do you like getting out in front of problems to take …