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Searching For Your New Home Alone? Really? Think it Over ... Pt. 1
Searching For Your New Home Alone?  Really?  Think it Over ... Pt. 1                     Are you presently contemplating ... or actively seeking ... a new home to buy?  If so, you are not alone ...        An article offered on May 5th, 2011 on  SmartMoney.com (written by Annamaria Andriotis) states that the above is indeed true.  More Americans ARE presently out looking for homes to purchase. YOU are not alone in your housing search.             But the article goes on to state that you may also be a portion of another growing statistic ... homebuyers actively searching for their new home without the aid of a real estate agent.            Now, before I go any futher, I want to offer-up some facts regarding my own personal mortgage lending business ... and from where it is derived.  I believe this information will provide some validity and credibility to the information and suggestions I offer here later.                 I, and most mortgage lenders, will not deny that real estate agents play an important part in the introduction and securing of business clients.  The AMOUNT of business that is done as a result of real estate agents' referrals can only be an individual mortgage lender's accounting.  That accounting ... more

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