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Syndicate your listing with major websites in seconds!!
By creating a Website, a Slide Virtual Tour, a Panoramic Virtual Tour and a Mobile Phone Website with a text message code for a property, you have multiple cutting edge commercials to showcase your listing. As a professional marketer, it is now important to market the Single Property Website, Virtual Tours and Mobile technology anywhere … Read more
Home prices rise, snapping 8-month drop streak
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The downward cycle in home prices broke in April after eight consecutive months of decline, according to a survey released Tuesday. According to the S&P/Case Shiller 20-city index, prices rose 0.7% compared with March, although they fell 0.1% when adjusted for the strong spring selling season. Prices were down 4% year-over-year. … Read more
Secrets to getting a mortgage with so-so credit
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Getting a mortgage can be tough these days — even people with near-perfect credit have been rejected for loans. But for some lucky borrowers, things aren’t as bad as the doom-and-gloom crowd says. At a recent press conference, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said lending standards for mortgages have tightened so … Read more
Basics of Buying a House
Instead of making you read this whole website just to get the general idea of how the process works, here’s a short summary of everything that follows. Should I buy or keep renting? In most cases it’s better to buy instead of rent, and to buy as soon as you can afford to do so. … Read more
Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI) What it is, how to cancel it
When your down payment is less than 20% you usually have to pay for Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI). This protects the lender in case you don’t make your house payments. This doesn’t mean you can blow off making your house payments — if you fail to pay, the bank will still repossess your house. The … Read more
Down Payment Gifts for FHA Home Loans
Have you heard about using down payment gifts to buy a home? Discover the details of how they work for your mortgage down payment and what loan programs will allow them. Using down payment gifts for your mortgage down payment is the beauty of the FHA 203(b) mortgage. It will be like catching money falling … Read more
The Down Payment
Nobody pays cash for a house. Instead, you pay for most or all of it by getting a loan from a bank, called a mortgage. You will also probably make a down payment of 3 to 20% of the sale price, though sometimes it’s possible to pay nothing down. Since everybody wants to know how … Read more
How much home you can afford?
As you know from the basics page, to buy a home you need both the down payment and the monhly payments. So you’re probably wondering, “How much do I need to make the monthly payments?” But we’ll answer this question from the other direction: We’ll find out the most expensive house you can buy given … Read more
Upper West Side Condo Votes to Ban Smoking
NEW YORK CITY’S smoking ban spreads from bars and restaurants to parks and beaches Monday, and now one condominium on the Upper West Side has taken the step of prohibiting residents from smoking inside their apartments. Enlarge This Image Andrea Mohin/The New York Times CRACKING DOWN Gideon Stein helped marshal the votes for a smoking … Read more
