All posts tagged home ownership
Infographic: Alternatives to foreclosure
If you are a struggling homeowner, you don’t have to wait until your lender lowers the boom, nor do you have to walk away because you think your equity-depleted home will never regain it’s value. The recent “Con artists leeching [...]
Mortgage co-signing pros, cons
If you are unable to meet mortgage lenders' tight underwriting guidelines, teaming up with a co-signer can be a solution. Co-signer vs. co-borrowers According to the Federal Housing Administration
Triple-dip could pile on housing doom and gloom
In a mashup of three recent housing market reports, home ownership has suffered its greatest bust since the Great Depression, 10 million more foreclosures may be headed for
Homeownership possible within three years after foreclosure
Losing your home can be devastating to your credit, not to mention your psyche, but you can buy again within as few as three years after a foreclosure
It’s housing, stupid
Focus like a laser beam on housing. Just writing down all of California's underwater mortgages to market value would pump more than $20 billion into the state, create more
Voters united over homeownership
The message American voters recently sent to legislators in Washington D.C. is pretty clear: "Don't make home ownership any more difficult than it already is." Voters who are homeowners
Housing to take center stage in 2012 election
Housing-related tax breaks are as American as apple pie and politicians who want to cut the tax perks that come with housing may want to consider another line
Rate of homeownership nears 11-year low
Revealing the lingering effects of the housing market's hangover, the level of homeownership in the second quarter this year sank to its lowest rate in nearly 11 years. In
Site to See: HouseLogic eases home ownership logistics
Houselogic.com, the newest and perhaps most engaging portal for housing information, is a unique compilation of interactive resources no homeowner should be without. A National Association of Realtors' (NAR)
Property tax assessment too high? Quick! File for a review
Take a good hard look at your property tax assessment. If your home has lost value in recent years, there's a chance you should also be paying a smaller
Beware bogus ‘Property Tax Reassessment’ letter
Some San Jose, CA area homeowners, and likely homeowners elsewhere, just received a dubious "Property Tax Reassessment" mailing from a company looking to net $179 per mailing. It and
No place like home for saving
There's no place like home to save on the cost of living. Home is, after all, also where many cost of living expenses have risen, according to the Center
Homeschooled homeowners surviving crisis
If the experts have said it once, they've said it a thousand times, but they can't say it enough. Home ownership doesn't come with a manual. It's up to you
Consumer Alert: Property tax reduction offers
Larry Stone, Silicon Valley's tax assessor, is warning homeowners to beware of companies seeking cash to help homeowners lower their property tax. He says a local company, asking for
