1. YOU SPEND MORE MONEY ON REAL ESTATE THAN ANYTHING ELSE On average, residents of California spend between 24 and 30 percent of their monthly income on Housing. Transportation comes in at a distant second to real estate, eating up between 13 and 16 percent of annual income (unless you’re an Orange County housewife living [...]
As the events of the last few years in the real estate industry show, people forget about the tremendous responsibility of financing a home at their peril. Here are a few tips for dealing with the dollar signs so that you can take down that “for sale” sign on your new home. Pre-Approval Sub-primes may [...]
Selling your home doesn′t just mean hiring a realtor to stick a sign out front. When preparing to sell, there are a number of steps you should take to ensure you get the best offer possible in the shortest time. Repair Just because you’ve gotten used to the cracks in the walls and the rattles in [...]