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8 Expert Tips For Anyone Navigating Today's Absolutely Bonkers Housing Market

Should You Ask Your Parents to Cosign Your Mortgage?

By Daniel Bortz

11 Hidden Costs of Buying a Home Every First-Time Buyer Should Know

What I Wish We’d Done Differently When Buying Our First Home

By Matt Christensen

Closing on a House? These 10 Factors Will Speed — or Slow — The Process

By Lilian Ogbuefi

How to Secure a (Much) Better Rate for Your Next Mortgage

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How to Ask Your Parents For Money Without Feeling Like a Child Asking for a loan from your parents is never easy. But it can be made simpler if you follow this advice.

Mortgage Rates Are Nearing an All-Time Low. Is It Time to Refinance My Home? It's definitely a good time to consider it. But here's what you really need to be asking yourself.

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15 Things Everyone Needs to Know Before Buying a First Home What you need to know to avoid buyer's remorse.

8 Pieces of Financial Advice New Parents Should Follow Taking the right steps now can help eliminate money worries down the road

Are New Parents Better Off Renting? It’s easy to assume owning a home is better for your family. But the financial benefits aren’t always what they seem.

The 7 Awesome, Terrible, Bizarre Neighbors You Meet in the Suburbs From the Interchangeables to the Humblebrags, here are the new neighbors you'll meet when you move into your first home.

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