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Five Things to Do Before You Start Shopping for a New Home

You’ve decided you’re ready to start your home search and buy a new pad. Exciting, right? But before you start a weekly ritual of attending open houses, there are a few…

Five Best Houseplants for Beginners

Need a little green to spruce up your home? Here are FIVE great looking houseplants that are easy to find (and hard to kill). You’ll find varieties of these plants…

What to know about Closing Costs

When buying a home, your financial obligation includes more than just the down payment and monthly mortgage. You’ll also be on the hook for the costs required just to close…

How to Save for Your First Home

Saving for a down payment can seem daunting if you’re just getting started. Here are 4 quick tips you can use to set yourself up for maximum savings! Let’s GO!…

Seven Reasons A Home Hasn’t Sold

The house is ready, the paperwork is done, and the for-sale sign is in the front yard. Unfortunately… it’s been that way for months. Why hasn’t the house sold? There…

8 Ways to Make Moving Not Suck

By now, we all know that moving into a new home is... hard. But, hey, like anything else it's nothing that a little pre-planning and discipline can't help.

Five BIG Mistakes First-Time Homebuyers Make

Buying a new home doesn’t have to be hard. But it does take a fair amount of research, preparedness, and patience to do it right. As REALTORS®, our goal is…

Home Buying for Millennials: How to Avoid Buyer’s Regret

Raise your hand if this has happened to you: you’ve just bought something REALLY big, and REALLY expensive. You’re stoked. You’re excited. REALLY excited. And then you wake up one…

Mortgage Pre-Approval: Your First Step in the Home-Buying Process

  So, you’re ready to buy a home. Step one: talk to a real estate agent, right? Well, not quite. For most of us, the first step we need to…

8 Factors That Affect Home Values

Planning on selling your home? Then you’ve probably already spoken to a real estate agent about your home’s value. Curious about how they landed on that number? It’s not just…