How To Buy a House With No Money Down
By Kathleen Willcox Apr 25, 2023 While a 20% down payment is a benchmark everyone would like to strive for, it certainly isn’t the norm. According to a recent report from the National Association [...]
What Is a Seller’s Market? A Tough Road for Homebuyers
By Daniel Bortz Apr 20, 2023 (Travis Dove for The Washington Post via Getty Images) Simply put, a seller’s market is a market where there are more homebuyers than sellers. [...]
40 Ways to Go Greener at Home (Besides Just Recycling)
Tsh Oxenreider Sep 22, 2020 Continuing our series during this final year of AoS of the top 12 published posts of all time (measured in simple traffic numbers), this one is [...]
Feeling Taxed to the Max? Check Out These 9 States Boasting Zero Income Taxes
By Meera Pal Apr 12, 2023 (Getty Images) Tax day—April 18—is right around the corner. And if you’re like many homeowners, you’re facing shelling out big bucks for property taxes, [...]
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Home Sellers Today
By Tara Mastroeni Apr 11, 2023 (Getty Images) Selling your home isn’t as easy as it used to be. Now that the red-hot market is cooling off, sellers need to reset [...]
How to Deal With Noisy Upstairs Neighbors: 8 Fiercely Clever Tricks
By Jenny Lelwica Buttaccio Mar 7, 2023 (Getty Images) Shortly after they were married, Brittany H. and her husband moved into an apartment in Chicago’s Irving Park neighborhood. With Victorian houses and [...]
Buying a House With Cash? Cash Buyers Can’t Forget These Expenses Either
By Cathie Ericson Apr 11, 2023 (Realtor.com) Buying a house with cash will make you feel like a million bucks. Maybe you came into a large inheritance, or you’re just really good [...]
A Brief History of Opening Our Homes to Total Strangers
By Rachel Stults Apr 3, 2023 (H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images) It’s April, and that means homeowners across the country are throwing open their doors for strangers to enter their homes, test [...]
On the House: What First-Time Home Sellers Need to Know to Be Successful This Spring
By Clare Trapasso Apr 5, 2023 (Realtor.com / Getty Images) Q: What are some tips for homeowners who hope to sell their homes this spring? This month, we’re mixing it [...]
Own a House for $99 a Month? The New, Improved ‘Tiny’ Movement That’s Helping Homebuyers Save Big
By Kimberly Dawn Neumann Apr 6, 2023 (Photo courtesy of Eclipse Cottages / Realtor.com) In her mid-50s, Laurie Granbeck decided she wanted to downshift to a more relaxed pace of life. So [...]
