The Unique Real Estate Blog

With the slow real estate market we are experiencing, you want to make sure that your house is as attractive as possible to potential buyers. You need to remember that when buyers visit your house, they are imagining what it would be like to live in your home.

For many people living in California a home equity line of credit, or HELOC, can help them through financially trying times. These are open ended or revolving loans that allow you to advance yourself money up to a pre-approved credit limit. In this fashion they work much like a credit card.

One of the topics I hear from day to day is that most people’s intentions are to invest in property as a replacement to retirement annuities although the majority of the time this never materialises. The money that was to be used for property usually ends up enhancing ones social life to the detriment of ensuring a satisfactory retirement plan.

One of the popular ways to save money on mortgages is to use what is known as the biweekly mortgage payment plan. With the biweekly mortgage payment plan, the borrower makes payments on his mortgage every two weeks, instead of once a month. The biweekly payment is one-half of the monthly payment. So, if you converted from a monthly plan to the biweekly plan and you had been paying $2,000 a month for your principal and interest, you would now be paying $1,000 every two weeks.

When it comes to putting your home on the market for sale, it is important that you have all of the proverbial pieces of the puzzle in order. In this regard, if you are a pet owner, there are specific steps that you will need to take in advance of putting your home on the market for sale. By following these steps, you will be able to best ensure that your home is in the best possible position to sell.

Are you having problem selling your house in today’s market? Are you fed up with your realtor? Or do you need the sell your home in the next 30 days?

Whether you are using a realtor or not, here’s the method I use to sell houses in under 30 days or less.

One of the more important questions many homeowners need to ask themselves when considering refinancing their mortgage is, should I do this now or wait? This dilemma often energizes the homeowner to research mortgage refinancing further or it makes them lean towards delaying it for the moment and concentrate on other areas of their finances.

What is a Subprime Mortgage?

While the word ‘prime’ normally refers to the base interest rate charged by major lenders across the country, a subprime mortgage refers to a home loan offered to a borrower that is higher risk than normal, not a lower interest rate.

10 essential holiday letting tips and advice in the best practices to maximize holiday property lettings.

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1. Maximize the properties key selling points

Every holiday home rental has its very own key selling points and these are most likely the very things that drew you to purchase the property in the first place

There are many homeowners who would like to sell their homes by themselves, thus saving money on commission. But who can you trust to tell you the truth about the how’s, the why’s, and the risks? Nine times out of ten, you really can’t trust someone who is trying to sell you something (that’s probably more like 99 out of 100, truth be told). The tough part is that those people are the ones who are most well-versed in real estate. At the risk of becoming unpopular with my Realtor peers, I’m going to follow my teacher heart and explain home sales to you honestly.