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If you've been thinking about investing in real estate, getting your finances in order before you start searching for properties and scheduling appointments will save you from money headaches in the long run.

There’s a reason why people love looking at photos of homes for sale — it’s rare that we get to see a place look it's very best, and scrolling through gorgeous room after room helps serious buyers see themselves settling down in those very rooms.But as any…

One excellent way to improve your financial profile is to buy a home of your own. But we won't lie: It's a long and potentially incredibly stressful process, especially when it comes to the dollars and cents of securing a mortgage loan.

Establishing yourself as a community and working together with your neighbors is one of the best ways to increase feelings of safety while actually reducing crime in your area. Here's how to get started.

If you've never fixed and flipped a home before -- but you've watched enough HGTV think it looks like fun -- then you might not think you need a real estate agent to help with the process. What can an agent tell you that you don't already know?

Open houses are a real estate tradition, and sometimes (in an era of hot home sales and strong seller’s markets, especially) they might be a buyer’s only opportunity to walk through the house they end up buying. As a seller, the pressure is on to ensure your home…

Style is as individual as human beings are, but we can generally agree that there are some style trends that should be left in the past. Before you jump on the latest home decorating bandwagon, consider how these trends fared.

It's that time of year again -- when agents start taking stock of their business over the past several months and start deciding what next year is going to look like. Some agents thrive on business planning and don't need to be nudged to work on an outline for their…

Millennials who want to invest in real estate have it harder than many other generations. Real estate prices are at record or near-record highs in just about every major market in the country, and even though employment is good, wages still haven't kept up with the home…

When you’ve indulged in aspirational dreams about your real estate career, you may have envisioned yourself as the head of an office full of sharply dressed agents and their streamlined, uber-efficient assistants. Most agents probably don’t daydream about hiring a…

It hasn’t been standard practice to have multiple generations living underneath a single roof until relatively recently; our homes have traditionally been designed to accommodate two generations at a time, maybe three. But four is a stretch, and five can be downright…

How to understand the difference between a buyer's and a seller's market!