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If you are about to venture into home buying, you're gonna need a few honest advice. Here are some of the most honest pieces of advice you're going to hear about real estate buying: Home Selling Tips: How To Market Your Home To Millennial Buyers
Millennials are one of the most interesting marketing targets for home sellers. This group of people are unlike your traditional home buyers as they tend to buy real estate in an entirely different manner. Typically, millennial buyers want to own homes for a shorter time and they also prefer metropolitan areas. Moreover, millennials are also interested in investing in real estate. Real Estate Tips: Typical Mortgage Modification Scams You Should Watch Out For
It's quite unfortunate how homeowners are being a target of scammers everywhere. As if these home owners aren't stressed enough in their foreclosure issues, scam artists still have these people as targets in their loan modification scams. These scammers are all over the web, and they even invade the public files just to get to their next victim. Mortgage Tips And News: What Are The Important Mortgage Documents You Need To Sign
US consumers are protected from being abused with fees through the two new regulations. The TILA (Truth In Lending Act) and the RESPA (Real Estate Settlement Procedure Act) respectively protects the consumers from abusive closing costs and inter-services referral fees. Home Buying Tips: How To Get A Mortgage As A Self Employed Individual
Self employed people have different issues to face when trying to get a mortgage. If you are a freelancer or an entrepreneur, you know that your income can fluctuate regularly and this can be an issue if you want to get a mortgage approval. But of course, there are still things that you can do to improve your chances at getting a mortgage. Here are some tips: Home Buying Techniques: How To Create Offers That Will Attract Sellers
Home buying is a long process that does not end in simply finding the perfect home to buy, because after you find that home, you're gonna have to convince its seller that your offer is the best one. The offers given to your choice of property may be more than one in number so you may need to compete with the other offers. Also, even if your offer is the only one the seller has, this is still no assurance that you will get the deal. This is why creating an effective offer is a crucial thing. Here are some tips for you to do this: Home Selling Tips: Dealing With Bidding Wars, Choosing The Best Offer
When the real estate market is on fire, there are some sellers who are lucky enough to get multiple bids on their property. If you are in this position, you'll find that figuring out which offer is the best is quite difficult. Refinancing Tips: How To Calculate The Net Benefit Of Refinance Transactions
Computing the net benefit of a refinance transaction may be a pretty tricky thing to do if you do not know what to compute. But here, we're gonna put our attention to the net benefit of the transaction from the standpoint of reducing your current interest rate. Although there could be many reasons for one person to refinance, the most popular one is to lower people's mortgage rate so as to save on the interest payments. 'CES 2016' News, Update: Highly Anticipated Cars To Be Showcased - Ford GT, Volkswagen, General Motors, and More!
The CES event has all kinds of expectations placed on its shoulders. Not only are we talking about smartphones, tablets, and TVs here, CES is also one of the best events to be introduced to the best cars of the year. 'Asus Zenfone Max' News, Specs, Price, Release: Pre Orders Start For The Zenfone With 5000 mAh Battery
The "Asus Zenfone Max" was announced last August and is now available in India for pre order. Online retailers have already listed the "Zenfone Max" with a price tag that could be converted to $150. The release date in the said country is listed as January 15 in Amazon. 'Huawei' Phone News, Update, Rumors: Company Posted A Teaser Ahead Of The CES Event, Could It Be The 'Honor X3'?
CES is nearby but this doesn't stop Huawei from giving us more hints as to what the company has in store for us in the coming months. 'Samsung Galaxy S7' News, Specs, Update: There May Be A Snapdragon 820 SoC Variant With Adreno 530 GPU
The New Year has just passed and 2016 wants to say hi with more "Samsung Galaxy S7" rumors. The last thing we have heard is that the next Samsung flagship will come in four variants, that is the S7 with the S7 Edge, and the S7+ with the S7 Edge+. The Plus phones will be six inch in size while the basic S7 will be 5.1" and the S7 Edge will be 5.5 inch in size. Mortgage Tips: What Is A Mortgage Insurance, And What Are Its Benefits?
A mortgage insurance or a private mortgage insurance is a kind of insurance that primarily benefits and protects lenders more than it does the borrowers. This insurance aims to protect the lender in case the borrower fails to pay the loan and the lender fails to recover the costs after foreclosure and property sale. 'Oculus Rift' News, Update, Release Dates: Touch Controller To Be Released Second Half Of 2016
Here's a new report from the much hyped Oculus Rift VR headset. According to Oculus' recent announcement, the Touch controller for the Rift VR headset will be delayed. The company said that instead of the scheduled release of first half of 2016, the controller will now ship in the year's second half. 'iPhone 7' News, Release Date, Specs: Apple Phone Rumors About A 256 GB Internal Memory Leaks, Alongside Massive Battery Sie Of 3100 mAh
It has been months since rumors about the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 Plus started to surface online. Although no concrete announcement has been made about the new flagships' features, we can just puzzle together the rumored news to come up with a solid spec sheet for 2016 release of the iPhone. 'Samsung TV' News, Details, Reports: 2016 'Samsung Smart TV' Will Come With IoT Support, Company Also Announced New Smart Remote
Samsung recently announced that their 2016 lineup of TVs will all feature IoT (Internet of Things) support and SmartThings platform integration. SmartThings is the open platform that allows for the management of smart devices and IoT services. To further elaborate, SmartThings allows people to manage, connect, and even control their IoT services and smart gadgets through their smartphones and SUHD TVs. 'Grand Theft Auto V' News, DLC, Update: There May Be New Single Player GTA 5 DLC, Plus Mario Kart Mod Details
Grand Theft Auto 5 new leaks suggests more info about a new single player DLC. According to Geek, the game will be getting a new single player DLC, although of course, this information isn't backed up by official statements from game developers.
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