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Buying Now Versus Buying Later
August 2, 2000 "Please settle an argument.  I believe that we should buy our house now, even though we have no money for a down payment, because our credit is good and we can get a 100% loan.  House prices have been rising in our area by about 4% a year.  My ... more...

The Fictitious Down Payment Scam
July 10, 2000, Revised November 17, 2004  ?I offered $289K for a house but was not able to make a down payment.  The seller?s realtor told me that so long as I could pay all the closing costs, they would find a way to contribute 5% toward a down payment.   ... more...

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Shared Appreciation Mortgage, SAMt
Shared Appreciation Mortgage, SAM A mortgage in which a borrower receives a below-market interest rate in return for which the lender (or another investor such as a family member or other partner) receives a portion of the future appreciation in the value of the property. May also ... more...

Equal Credit Oportunity Act
Equal Credit Oportunity Act (ECOA) Is a federal law that requires lenders and other creditors to make credit equally available without discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status or receipt of income from public assistance programs. ... more...

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Open the Cash Vault Inside Your Home
Believe it or not, many people do not understand equity and the power it provides.In its purest form, equity is money. With regard to real estate (specifically, your house or other investment property), equity is measured in terms of the value of the property minus what you owe. So, if your home is ... more...

Buying a House or a Home?
A house is just that, a house, until someone lives in it. That's when it becomes a Home. There's a big difference. At our house, we always say our home is "well lived in." And, with a family of six, four of them being between the ages of 9 and 15, this house has no choice! Our house, being in ... more...

How to Achieve Financial Freedom with Your Home
The secret disclosed on how you too could achieve financial freedom through property (and tell the pension companies just where to stick their measly, worthless pensions) Geoff Morris is a self-made property millionaire who made it in less than 18 months even with a hectic 'day job'. He has written ... more...

The Perils of the Property Ladder: Has Anyone Noticed the Silence?
There was a time when every conversation was focussed on property and every other TV programme was about property makeovers. Everybody wanted to get into property and those already on the ladder seemed fixated on becoming wealthy overnight. Remember those media-nominated millionaires who bought ... more...

Why Good Houses Don't Sell?
When a house doesn't sell as quickly as expected, it's easy (for the owner anyway) to lay the blame on a soft real estate market, or a lousy selling season. After all, neither of those things are the sellers faults, nor under the seller's control. The fact is, though, that 90% of the time when a ... more...

Uk House Price Increases Take A Summer Holiday
Property website Rightmove has released its latest house price index announcing a Summer sale for house buyers. The report shows that on average, house prices fell by 1% over the four weeks leading up to 9th July, indicating that the affordability gap between house prices and buyers ability to ... more...

A Log Home Story
Solving problems while maximizing valuesThis story has a few good lessons and observations that no doubt can be used by you to take advantage of hidden opportunities that often lie in plain view for all to see, however, most people have not been trained or instructed on how to recognize or find ... more...

Real Estate Investing - Maximum Leveraging of Your Money
At this moment, you have access to some amount of money, from the extremes of only pocket change to the reserves of Bill Gates or Warren Buffet.Suppose you want to invest your funds into some vehicle that will multiply the return.You look around for the Return on Investment of various investment ... more...

Learn How You Can Repair Your Credit & Get Out Of Debt Faster Before Buying Your New House!
Most people think mistakenly that if you have credit problems, you have to wait 7 years for them to go away. Well, that's not always true.Credit repair can help you...once you know how to do it. The time to clean up your credit and pay off your debts is RIGHT NOW, before you start looking for ... more...

Questions Investors Should Ask When Buying and Selling Investment Property
If you're a real estate investor, here are several questions to consider when looking at investment properties. Providing sound answers to these questions will greatly increase your profits:Why do homeowners sell for bargain prices?There are many factors that can prevent owners from being able to ... more...

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