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Last week, I just visited my grandfather in Canberra. We haven’t met for three years because I have so many activities. I just joined my friend’s company as a businessman so I had no time to visit him. Thus, when I got a leisure time, I visited my...

Because they had a pre-approval letter from the bank, the seller decided to take a chance on them and agreed to go with no down payment if the buyers would pay any closing costs except for the seller’s title policy. The sale closed two weeks later,...

Older homeowners who have paid off their mortgages and are going into an assisted living center, moving in with family, or downsizing and don’t need their equity in a lump sum are good candidates for seller financing. You or your agent may have to...

Some important do’s are: Do keep the terms simple and make sure the monthly payment includes principal and interest, and that it pays off in a set number of years. In mortgage-speak, the loan amortizes. Do avoid balloon payments, whereby you make...

Although the loan programs we’ve discussed constitute the way the vast majority of homes are financed, there are other perfectly safe ways to buy a home that, in some cases, can allow you to avoid hefty bank fees and save thousands of dollars in closing...