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Mortgage Management
- How do I calculate my prepayment savings?
- How prepaying your mortgage affects your credit score
- You've paid off your mortgage loan. Now what?
- 3 tips for cutting your mortgage costs in 2012
- Do-it-yourself refinancing
- Should I continue to prepay my mortgage or refinance?
- Should I pay off a mortgage early?
- How do I remove or add a name to a home loan?
- Mortgage Myths Could Be Costing You $25,000
- Is lending to your child worth the risk?
Trade up/Vacation/Second Home
- 4 tips for holiday homebuyers
- Are "Hard Money" Purchase Loans Making a Comeback?
- Why are mortgage rates higher for investment properties than for second homes?
- Buying real estate for your IRA
- Can you make a living flipping houses?
- Exchange Your Real Estate: Why Pay Taxes? by Ken Harney
- Gay and gray: New housing opportunities for gay seniors
- How to Buy and Finance Investment Property
- Why mortgage lenders hate unique homes
Maintaining/Improving Your Home
- Should You Stay or Go? Renovation vs. Relocation
- 3 hot home renovations
- 3 reasons you shouldn’t hire friends or family
- 4 easy home improvements save energy and money
- 6 techy upgrades for your home this year
- Can't move? Improve! Get the most bang for your buck with these renovations
- Energy Efficient Mortgage Programs
- Flooding: The most common natural disaster in America
- Homeowners: Don’t do that, do this
- Not all green home improvements make cents
- ‘Granny pods' can be an alternative to nursing homes
Selling Your Home
- Seller's remorse? How to back out of a home sale contract
- Selling solo: 5 facts for selling your home on your own
- 3 things homebuyers should never say to a Realtor
- 5 outside-the-box secrets to help sell your home
- 9 ways to ace your home inspection
- Neighbors preventing the sale of your home?
- Selling your home fast: dos and don'ts
- Cheap, quick fixes to help sell your home
- Divorce your house when you divorce your spouse
- It’s not you, it’s your house: Homebuyer turnoffs, inside and out
- 5 tips for first-time home sellers
- How to get top dollar for your home
- Avoid capital gains tax with a 1031 exchange
Loan Modifications/Workout Solutions
- What is the Home Affordable Modification Program?
- Can mortgage lenders hold your insurance money hostage?
- Dial ‘M’ for mortgage help
- House lost value? Get a property tax do-over
- After foreclosure, boomerang back into homeownership
- How to get a mortgage post-bankruptcy
- 4 ways to prevent mortgage-relief scams
- The Pros and Cons of Walking Away from your Mortgage
- Deed in Lieu: Is it for You?
- Rebuilding credit following a foreclosure
Renting your home
- Renting out a house with a mortgage
- 6 steps to making a vacation home pay
- How to turn your home into a short-term rental
- Live-in landlords turn homes into cash
- Why is my lender asking for so much documentation?
- Is renting out your home worth it?
- Occupancy fraud: Risks not worth the rewards
- Caddyshack? Not when a PGA Tour pro is the renter