Mortgages
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What Is Mortgage Escrow? [Q&A]
If you’re using a mortgage to buy a home, your lender will most likely require what’s called an escrow account.…
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What Is The APROn A Mortgage? How Does It Work?
When you’re buying a home, sometimes the mortgage lender and the real estate agent seem to speak different languages. When…
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Who Pays Closing Costs? [Q&A]
In a real estate transaction, people naturally focus on the immediate upfront costs: the home’s purchase price and down payment…
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What Are Closing Costs? How Much Are They?
Closing costs are what you pay when you close a real estate transaction, whether you’re refinancing your mortgage or buying…
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What Are Mortgage Points? How Do They Work?
Buying a home is the most expensive purchase most of us will make in our lives, so of course anything…
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Buy A Cheaper House Or Build A Cheaper House?
Building a house instead of buying it allows you to customize it to suit your needs, among other benefits. However,…
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Cash-out Refinancing: How It Works?
Paying off your mortgage helps build home equity (one of the reasons mortgages are considered “good” debt). But you don’t…
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Mortgages Backed By Government Programs – You Should Know
A new home can be the biggest purchase of your life. Before you start looking for the right home, you…
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How To Get The Best Mortgage Rate? [Q&A]
With interest rates at staggeringly high levels (and no sign of falling significantly anytime soon), it seems impossible to get…
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