Should You Rent or Buy a Home?

If you guessed buy, you’d be wrong. According to the new Trulia Rent vs. Buy index, it makes more fiscal sense to rent in this farm city due to the huge gap between rental and purchase prices.
Until recently, the perennial real estate question of whether to rent or buy was dead…. Read More

Restore Order to Your Garage

(Money Magazine) — No room in your garage … for your cars? Welcome to the club. A quarter of Americans with two-car garages can’t park in theirs, and another third can squeeze in only one vehicle, according to the Department of Energy. Getting a grip on the jumble of yard tools, … Read More

Creating Curb Appeal

First Impressions are everything and this is never more true than with a home for sale.  Creating a great first impression is easy if you follow these simple tips.

Clean it up, it’s not always what you add but what you take away that makes a good first impression.

Remove any tree limbs near or … Read More

Foreclosures plateau – finally. Repossessions soar

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The foreclosure plague may have finally reached its peak in April 2010 — but don’t expect delinquency statistics to plummet anytime soon.
The total number of foreclosure filings — notices of default, auction notices and bank repossessions — fell by 9% from March to April, and 2%… Read More