jay silver: A Buyer's Market Can Be a Great "Trade-Up" Market - 06/17/08 07:10 PM
If you wanted to sell your home and trade up to a more expensive one, but wanted to wait for a "better market" you might want to take a look at this PDF to see what you might be missing out on...
Acceptance: the date when both parties, seller and buyer, have agreed to and completed signing and/or initialing the contract.
Adjustable Rate Mortgage: a mortgage that permits the lender to adjust the mortgage's interest rate periodically on the basis of changes in a specified (0 comments)
1. The kids have all graduated from college. You and your husband finally have time to yourselves...then they move back home!
2. You have three spare rooms in a four bedroom house.
3. You have to shuffle your cars each morning to leave for work.
4. You spend (0 comments)
Myth #1: You should always price your home high and negotiate down.
Truth: Pricing too high can be as bad as pricing too low. If you list too high, you'll miss out on buyers looking in the price range where your home should be. Offers may not (0 comments)
Every once in a while I'll drop a page from my journal into my blog. I'm working on writing things down more. People say it's therapeutic. :-)
Not much to do with real estate. I think that sometimes we need to slow down and keep our eyes open to what's (2 comments)
It's always a treat to see a new cafe open its doors, especially when it's only a few blocks from my house! Back in March the Blue Saucer Cafe threw their proverbial hat in the ring and started slinging shots for the Maple Leaf/North Seattle masses. Actually, I don't know if the (0 comments)
jay silver: Media, Shmedia! You Can Still Buy a Home With Little or Nothing Down! - 05/05/08 12:46 PM
You've watched the news and read about it in the papers. You know, the "credit crisis" and how buyers need 20 percent down in order to buy a home? And even if you found a buyer with 20 percent down, lenders aren't making loans anyway. So, why bother, right? Wrong! We're right smack (0 comments)