3 Reasons To Attend Your Own Home Inspection As a home buyer in Montgomery County , you can get a feel for whether a home's systems and appliances are in working order. However, you can't know for certain until after the home's been inspected. This is why real estate agents recommend that buyer...

01/31/2013

Simple Fixes To Help Your Home Sell More Quickly

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Simple Fixes To Help Your Home Sell More Quickly If one of your New Year's Resolutions is to sell your Montgomery County home, there are a few simple steps you can take to help prepare it for showings. With a prospective buyer in mind, take a tour of your home, making a list of the good, the bad,...

01/27/2013

Tips For Selling Your Home In The Colder Winter Months

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Tips For Selling Your Home In The Colder Winter Months Real estate agents in Montgomery County will tell you that it can be harder to sell a home in the winter. The days are colder and shorter, leaving less time to show a home to potential buyers. The good news, though, is that most buyers looki...

01/23/2013

Selling? Improve The Appearance Of Your Home's Bathrooms

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Selling? Improve The Appearance Of Your Home's Bathrooms Full-scale bathroom remodeling can be expensive and, in today's Montgomery County housing market, you won't likely get all of the money back that you put into it at the time of sale. Knowing that bathroom projects tend to have a low return ...

01/22/2013

Improve Your Credit Score To Get Better Mortgage Rates

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Improve Your Credit Score To Get Better Mortgage Rates For home buyers in Montgomery County and nationwide, credit scores can change low mortgage rates and alter home loan approvals. Borrowers with high credit scores get access to lower mortgage rates, for example, and can find the mortgage appro...

01/20/2013

What To Do When Your Home Doesn't Appraise At Its Purchase Price

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What To Do When Your Home Doesn't Appraise At Its Purchase Price Experienced home sellers in Montgomery County know that reaching a sales agreement with a potential buyer can be just the start of the negotiation process. There are often inspection issues to resolve, among other items. One particu...

01/16/2013

27 Months Of Consecutive Job Growth Helping Home Prices Rise

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27 Months Of Consecutive Job Growth Helping Home Prices Rise The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Non-Farm Payrolls report for December exceeded Wall Street's expectations by 5,000 net new jobs, showing 155,000 positions created in December. The December tally raised the economy's 12-month total...

01/14/2013

Choosing "Green Homes" in Montgomery County PA

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Choosing "Green Homes" in Montgomery County PA "Green" homes can be great for the environment and can save you money over time. For environmentally-conscious homeowners wanting to minimize their footprint and their energy bills, there are four areas upon which to focus. In-Home Energy-Efficiency...

01/13/2013

Post-Fiscal Cliff, Mortgage Markets Turn Attention To Jobs Data

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Post-Fiscal Cliff, Mortgage Markets Turn Attention To Jobs Data Mortgage rates moved higher Wednesday up congressional leaders voted to avoid the "Fiscal Cliff". Mortgage-backed securities (MBS) fell as investors bid up stock prices. Confidence among investors and consumers typically causes mort...

01/07/2013

How To Make An Emergency Preparedness Kit For Your Home

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How To Make An Emergency Preparedness Kit For Your Home After Hurricane Sandy hit the East coast we all realized that a natural disaster of dynamic proportions could hit a lot closer to home than we perhaps had thought. Some natural disasters can be forecast -- hurricanes, snow storms and, in som...

01/06/2013