Category: Home Ownership
When you go to buy your first home, the topic of private mortgage insurance (aka PMI, or lender’s mortgage insurance) will assuredly come up. It’s a dirty little three-letter …
This is the second in a series of posts that aim to dispel or reinforce common personal finance cliches. The first looked at the commonly used phrase, “A penny …
It is human nature to want to simplify topics and concepts that are complex, layered, and sometimes difficult to understand. It’s a complicated world out there and we are …
Having lived in two college towns (one as a student and one currently for employment), I can attest that they are great places to take up residence. If I …
We’ve all dreamed of building our own home (read: having someone else build it for us) at one point or another. After all, a home is a very personal …
Tiny Home Movement is Growing Rapidly Admittedly, I haven’t made the leap from a regular-sized home to a tiny home just yet. But that hasn’t stopped me from strongly …
This real estate capital gains article has been updated with information for the 2023 & 2024 tax years. When you are about to sell your home, one of the …
Kiplinger recently ran an article that shed some really great light on whether it makes more sense to buy a home or rent an apartment. I’ve never addressed this …