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Mortgage Management
- How prepaying your mortgage affects your credit score
- 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?
- What Happens to your Mortgage in a Divorce?
- How do I remove or add a name to a home loan?
- Is lending to your child worth the risk?
Trade up/Vacation/Second Home
- Can You Use Your IRA to Buy Real Estate?
- Investing in Real Estate Now
- Buying a Home as an Investment Property
- Hard money loans: great option when buying a fixer upper
- 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
- Why mortgage lenders hate unique homes
- 4 tips for holiday homebuyers
Maintaining/Improving Your Home
- Homeowner's Maintenance Checklist: Monthly, Yearly and More
- Is Flood Insurance Included in a Mortgage?
- Should You Stay or Go: Home Renovation vs. Relocation
- 3 hot home renovations
- 3 reasons you shouldn’t hire friends or family
- 6 techy upgrades for your home this year
- 4 easy home improvements save energy and money
- Can't move? Improve! Get the most bang for your buck with these renovations
- Energy Efficient Mortgage Programs
- 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
- Selling Your Own Home: Pros and Cons
- Seller's remorse? How to back out of a home sale contract
- What can go wrong at closing?
- 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
- Price Your Home to Sell Fast at Maximum Dollar
- When it's Time to Lower the Price on Your Home
- Cheap, quick fixes to help sell your home
- It’s not you, it’s your house: Homebuyer turnoffs, inside and out
- 5 Essential tips for holiday home sellers
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
Taxes and Homeowership
- How to Lower Your Property Taxes
- Tax incentives and issues for homeowners
- How does a refinance in 2018 affect your taxes?
- Avoid capital gains tax with a 1031 exchange
- Use your home to pay your tax bill
- Can I separate tax and insurance payments from my mortgage payment?
- How long do I have to own or live in my home to qualify for the capital gains tax exclusion when I sell?
- Will Congress phase out the mortgage interest deduction?
Loan Modifications/Workout Solutions
- How to Lower Your Property Taxes
- What is the Home Affordable Modification Program?
- Dial ‘M’ for mortgage help
- 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