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Buying a foreclosure or bank owned home often is appealing to buyers trying to stretch their dollars. It’s finding a good one can that can be a challenge. Many banks don't want to advertise their homes negatively as "bank-owned" because
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A study of 24 million credit files by national credit bureau Experian and consulting company Oliver Wyman has shown that home owners with high credit scores are 50 percent more likely to deliberately walk away from a mortgage than lower-scoring borrowers.
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Is the Foreclosure Slowdown Temporary? Legal entanglements and well-intentioned home-owner-assistance efforts have slowed the pace of foreclosures, but eventually many of these distressed homes will hit the market anyway. Some observers say these delays
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APR Predators and APR Demystified First, lets demystify Annual Percentage Rate (APR). APR was designed to allow consumers to use one standardized number to compare the real cost of each lender's interest rate and it works like this. If I lend you,
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Media reports continually suggest that housing market trends are downward. Consumers have to contend with various sources of information providing grim details about buying or selling a home in the current economic environment. As a consumer you are left
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Seven Golden Rules For A Successful Bid On a House First time home buyers are looking at a market that shows no mercy, is highly competitive and does not reflect the conditions of a so-called " depressed real estate market." It is not easy to
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The following post is long but filled with tons of info to help you with your home purchase in Colorado Springs. Ok, put those reading glasses on! The following are some helpful tips that will help you be on the look-out for potential problems in homes
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If you’re trying to sell your home, it goes without saying that you want to generate as much interest among potential home buyers as possible. So how do you make your house stand out — especially in this foreclosure-saturated market where
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Don’t miss out on this opportunity for an $8,000 tax refund if you’re thinking of buying a home this year. It’s not often that the Feds offer free money, and unlike prior tax credits, this one doesn’t need to be returned! The Feds
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This is the first of many blogs I plan to write about the $8,000 tax credit that isn't being talked about nearly enough! Did you know that if you haven't owned a home in Colorado Springs in the past 3 years, you could qualify for the tax credit?
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