Are you a homebuying newbie? Check out these tips on how to start down the road towards buying your first home.

We face enormous societal pressure for buying a house: it seems to be the major goal for just about every family. And those houses that we’re supposed to buy seem to all look pretty similar: a single family home with a nice back yard in the right neighborhood and with the right appliances. But [...]

I went out to dinner with my grandparents this week. Today, they live in a six bedroom house (it seems huge, but it’s just enough to bed down all the aunts, uncles and cousins when everyone comes to town). But they started out, about two miles down the road and fifty-five years earlier in a [...]

Right now, a lot of home owners are struggling to handle their mortgages: we’ve all heard the stories of rising foreclosures. But Bankrate.com has put together an excellent resource for homeowners trying to figure out the procedures for dealing with their bank and learning just what they need to do to keep their homes by [...]

How many times have you driven past a fixer-upper and said to yourself, “I bet I could get that place cheap! And then I could slap a coat of paint on it, do some repairs, and have a real nice house?” I do it all the time. I like the thought of turning a so-so [...]

Last week, two of my friends closed on their first home. It’s a beautiful house, great neighborhood, big yard. It’s everything they could ask for, but that perfect home is coming at quite a price.
My friends decided that now was the ideal time to buy, because home prices have dropped significantly in our area. Their [...]