Buying a home can be nerve wracking, especially if you’re a first-time home buyer. Not only is it probably the biggest purchase of your life, but the process is complicated and fraught with unfamiliar lingo and surprise expenses.
To make the first-time home buying journey a little less stressful, 25 tips to help you navigate the process more smoothly and save money.
This excerpt from USA today, please click below to read full article:
Prepping and staging a house. Every seller wants their home to sell fast and bring top dollar. Does that sound good to you? Well, it’s not luck that makes that happen. It’s careful planning and knowing how to professionally spruce up your home that will send home buyers scurrying for their checkbooks. Here is how to prep a house and turn it into an irresistible and marketable home.
This excerpt from the balance.com
Eat-in kitchen with stainless steel appliances and double sink open to Family room. Family room has gas fireplace and skylights for extra lighting. Tiled foyer, separate dining room and formal living room. Spacious bedrooms, bathrooms have tile flooring and surround, partial basement. New roof, two car attached garage with auto door opener, rear concrete patio, large fenced-in backyard. Holly Height Elementary School, easily accessible to Routes 49 and 55.
Give a call today and ask to tour home #72. 856-364-0772
Home prices continued to rise in December due in part to the continuing trend of high demand and a shortage of homes for sale on the market. The S&P/Case-Shiller 20-City Home Price Index rose 6.3 percent from December 2016 to December 2017.
Well maintained two story home on private wooded lot in Palatine Lake Village. Eat-in kitchen with stainless steel appliances, granite countertops, tile backsplash and tile flooring. Kitchen open to living room with brick wood burning fireplace. Separate dining room, formal living room and half bath on first floor. Spacious bedrooms including master bedroom with sitting area and walk-in closet. Master bathroom has double vanity and stall shower. Full finished basement with built-in bar and half bath. Large rear deck, ceiling fans, insulated garage doors, securtiy system, electric dog fence, natural gas heat and hot water. Homeowners association includes use of the in-ground pool, clubhouse and tennis courts. Pittsgrove School System. This home is eligible for 100 PERCENT FINANCING through the USDA Rural Development Loan Program, no down payment required. Convenient access to Routes 40, 55, 47, 77 and 25 minutes to the Delaware Memorial Bridge. Give us a call today and ask for a private tour of property #71.
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Four New Jersey housing industry professionals were arrested in New Jersey last week for perpetrating a $5 million mortgage scam.
Real estate investor Victor Santos, builder Arsenio Santos, real estate settlement attorney Fausto Simoes, and mortgage loan officer Raquel Casalinho were charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud. According to the Department of Justice, between September of 2007 and November of 2008, the four co-conspirators and others fraudulently obtained mortgage loans with a total value of more than $5 million.
This excerpt from Mortgage Professional America.
Every summer, families across the country decide if this will be the year they sell their current house and move into their dream home.
Mortgage rates have hovered around 4% for all of 2017, forcing buyers off the fence and into the market, resulting in incredibly strong demand RIGHT NOW!! At the same time, inventory levels of homes for sale have dropped dramatically as compared to this time last year.
To read more please click the link below. This excerpt taken from keeping current matters.
Planning to buy a house soon? Will this be your first time navigating the home-buying process? If so, you’re probably wondering what you should be doing right now, before you actually start the process. Click her to read more
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