01.04.2009
Buying a home can be stressful. Buying your first home can be even more so. You may not know where you start. You may not understand all the lingo. You may not be able to differentiate between marketing ploys and practical procedures. You may not know what you’re looking for in a house or where you’d like to start your search. You may not know how much you can afford. As a recent first-time home buyer myself, I ran into a lot of the same issues. Having learned a great deal through my experience, I’ll offer what I can to other first-time home buyers: Continue reading »
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10.04.2008
Unless you’ve lived under a rock over the last year, you’ve heard our economy is in a heap of trouble mainly due to mortgages our country’s homebuyers can’t pay for. And if you actually have lived under a rock, I salute you for not being part of the problem.
So who’s to blame? Oh, there’s plenty to go around alright. Jimmy Carter? Ronald Reagan? Bill Clinton? George Bush? Franklin Raines? Jamie Gorelick? Chris Dodd? Barney Frank? Phil Graham? The plethora of banks? Wall street? Predatory lendors?
Let me share a reader’s comment I found online while reading Bankruptcy, not Bailout, is the Right Answer that I believe encompasses the mindset of many American citizens:
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