One of the biggest misconceptions of home buying? The 20% down payment. Here’s how to buy with a lot less down. Buying your first home conjures up all kinds of warm and fuzzy emotions: pride, joy, contentment. But before you get to the good stuff, you’ve got to cobble together a down payment, a daunting sum if you follow the …
6 Simple Tips to Make the Home Buying Experience Fun, Profitable and Efficient
The home buying search should be fun. It should also be an efficient use of a buyer’s time, and rewarding in getting that perfect home. This may sound like a tall order, but it doesn’t have to be. Here are 6 simple suggestions to get home: Analyze your lifestyle Create a list that reflects the lifestyle you want. Will you …
Making Home Ownership a Reality
Coming up with the down payment has always been a difficult task for most buyers, especially young and first-time folks. This is especially true in today’s market where a variety of factors – including student loan debt averaging $30,000 for the 20-something market – have made this even tougher to accomplish. As a result, in recent years there’s been a …