Category: Home Buying Guides

  • Construction Loans – Understanding Pulls

    Although building your own home or tackling a large remodeling project can be difficult the more you understand about the process and the better you plan ahead will give you that margin to deal with the unknowns. You can think of it like planning a trip. You know where you are going to go and…

  • Justifying Remodeling Projects With Resale In Mind

    As homes are harder to sell and the cost of remodeling has increased the value of your next project needs to be weighed against the money you can expect to gain at time of resale. Even if you will be holding on to your home for 5 years or more calculating which project is an…

  • Understanding Flood Insurance

    Some people believe that they are not at risk because their homes are located away from beaches and rivers but most locations can be effected by localized flash floods and when large disasters occure along large or even moderately sized waterways damage can extend for dozens of miles. Flood insurance like earthquake coverage is a single…

  • Home Buying – First Right of Refusal

    First Right of Refusal is part of most contracts that allow rights to both the seller and the buyer to continue the negotiation process if problems occur they can also be used to reserve the right for a known person to make an offer at any time a property is sold. Lets look at some…

  • Determining the Sale Price of your Home

    Whether you are buying or selling a home there are some simple steps you can take to make sure the price is right. Many people will say location is everything and to a certain degree this is true. If you are moving into a heavily populated area there are definitely differences that can boost or…