Should I Refinance My Mortgage?
Refinancing depends on a number of factors, including how long you plan to live in your home, how much interest you expect to pay, and how soon you will be …
Real Estate
Real estate refers to the buying, selling, and renting of properties such as homes, commercial buildings, and land. It is a complex and dynamic field that involves a wide range of topics, including property value, zoning laws, financing options, and market trends.
In this category of posts, we will explore various aspects of the real estate industry, providing readers with valuable information and insights to help them navigate the process of buying, selling, or renting a property.
Whether you are a first-time homebuyer, a seasoned investor, or simply curious about the real estate market, this category of posts has something for you.
15-Year vs. 30-Year Mortgage: What’s the Difference?
Homeowners tend to flock to thirty-year mortgages. After all, that is the standard, with 90 percent of borrowers choosing the thirty-year option (according to the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Company, …
5 Best Tips to Save for a Down Payment
When you’re buying a house, part of the money will come from you and the rest will come from the bank. The part that you’ll come up with is called …
How Much Mortgage Can You Afford?
When it comes to taking on a mortgage, you need solid information in your corner. Lenders will offer you the largest possible loan based on how your finances look on …
5 Simple Ways to Make Money From Real Estate
Investing in and owning real estate can be both satisfying and profitable. Prospective real estate owners, unlike stock and bond investors, can use leverage to buy a property by paying …
How to Make Money on Foreclosures?
A house goes into foreclosure when the owner can’t make his or her mortgage loan payments. The house gets repossessed by the lender and put up for sale at an …
How To Make Money Flipping Houses? Explained!
House flipping skyrocketed after 2008, when millions of homes went into foreclosure and investors scooped them up for pennies on the dollar. Then, within a few years, came the resurgence …
4 Best Tips To Fix and Flip Houses
House flips are more likely to fail (be unprofitable) than succeed, especially for beginners. Renovations always take longer to complete and cost more than expected, which can leave investors in …
10 Best Tips to Make Money From Rental Properties
Rental properties are one of the most stable ways to build wealth over time. By combining an asset with strong appreciation potential with a steady income stream, this investment offers …
Rental Expenses That New Landlords Don’t Realise
Most new landlords don’t realize the wealth of expenses linked to rental properties; they assume the expenses are limited to what they can deduct from their own homes. But one …
5 Best Ways to Verify Your Tenant
Good tenants can make your landlord experience smooth and profitable; bad tenants can destroy property, skip out on rent, and make you wish you’d invested in the stock market instead. …
What Does a Property Manager Do?
Property managers handle all the heavy lifting and day-to-day tasks of being a landlord so you don’t have to. Specific responsibilities will vary depending on the type of property you …
How To Start A Real Estate Holding Company
One of the strongest tools in a real estate investor’s kit is the holding company, a special legal structure that shields your personal assets (your house, car, bank accounts, etc.) …
5 Ways Real Estate Make You Rich
Investing in real estate offers you a set of key advantages that you won’t get with any other asset class. They’re what make real estate investing IDEAL (an acronym that’s …
Five Factors That Affect Real Estate Market
Like every other type of investing, real estate investing is affected by a variety of factors. Some of these have a direct and obvious effect; for example, rising interest rates …
How To Build Your Credit?
Most people don’t think about their credit scores until either they’re ready to buy a house or they’ve been declined for a credit card or loan. That’s a mistake, as …
Tax Benefits of Owning A Home
One of the great benefits of buying a house is the tax advantages extended to homeowners by the United States government. Under our tax laws, homeowners do not pay income …
How Does a Mortgage Work?
Houses are expensive, and most people do not have $200,000 in cash, which is the median U.S. price. Many banks will finance a house, and there are government-backed programs that …
When Should You Buy a House?
We would all love to go back in time and buy a house when prices were at the bottom; however, we cannot travel back in time, and no one knows …
Which is Better: Renting or Buying?
Most people assume buying a house is better than renting one. Most would also assume I’d always recommend buying. After all, I own 16 rental properties, run a real estate …