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How Will Gasoline Prices Affect Real Estate?

June 20, 2022June 20, 2022 Staff Writer affect, business, city, condition, cost, courage, DIT, dollars, estate, expense, gasoline, health, healthy, home, Home Office, house, how, ice, journal, life, management, market, office, pan, prices, pro, Productivity, property, question, real, real estate, Reason, remote, rent, sense, side, time, trend, VA, will, work, worry

You don’t usually equate gasoline prices and real estate. However, recent prices have people taking a closer look at the relationship.

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7 Questions to Ask a Potential Contractor

June 14, 2022June 15, 2022 Content Feed art, ask, bathroom, build, business, cat, change, communication, community, contractor, dollars, foreclosure, hacks, home, homeowner, imported, kitchen, land, offer, plan, potential, pro, professional, property, quality, question, questions, Reason, remodel, rent, research, review, search, sense, Skill, skills, tea, time, tips, trust, update, views, work, writing

Avoid a renovation nightmare by researching a few different contractors and setting up an interview with each of them. Here are seven interview questions to ask a potential contractor to ensure you hire the right pro!

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Are Closing Costs Tax Deductible?

June 14, 2022June 15, 2022 Content Feed Appraiser, are, buyer, buying, change, closing, cod, company, costs, credit, deal, deductible?, dollars, energy, Escrow, estate, fun, home, house, imported, insurance, life, money, mortgage, Ownership, problem, professional, property, question, questions, real, real estate, rest, sales, score, search, seller, selling, sense, tax, tax professional, taxes, time, train, Wealth, work, zone

Are closing costs tax-deductible? Before answering that question, it’s a good idea to understand what closing costs are and what is typically included in them.

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How Closely is Inflation Tied to the CPI?

June 14, 2022June 15, 2022 Staff Writer art, away, buy, cash, closely, cons, could, cpi?, DIT, dollars, drive, estate, existing, family, for, grocery, grow, have, holiday, home, homeowner, homeowners, homes, house, housing, how, ice, inflation, invest, labor, Lid, living, local, may, near, new, news, not, one, owner, people, power, price, prices, pro, purchase, real, rent, rental, sale, Sell, selling, sense, show, shows, side, simple, some, that, things, tied, time, times, VA, value, weekend, were, what, win, you

We hear a lot about inflation and how it plays with the CPI. However, it may not as simple as people make it out to be.

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Is Flexibility Good When Buying Homes?

June 12, 2022June 12, 2022 Staff Writer buy, buying, change, confidence, cost, decision, DIT, dollars, equity, flexibility, good, home, homeowner, homes, interest, invest, knowledge, Lid, life, listing, market, mortgage, moving, new home, perception, price, pro, quick, Reason, rent, research, rest, search, Sell, selling, sense, simple, tax, time, VA, when

Flexibility has normally been seen as a good thing in life. Does that still apply to buying homes in this hectic market?

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6 Ways to Try and Lower Your Property Taxes If They Seem High

May 28, 2022May 28, 2022 Content Feed agent, alternative, automatic, bathroom, change, couple, courage, credit, dollars, email, estate, freeze, fun, goal, Google, high, home, house, imported, lists, location, lower, meet, mind, money, moving, neighborhood, Ownership, Pet, plan, Planning, professional, property, real, real estate, research, review, routine, sales, search, seem, selling, sense, taxes, time, tips, try, value, ways, your

The U.S. Census Bureau reports that American homeowners pay a median annual property tax of $2,471 — that’s no chump change.

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Save Money on Groceries

May 25, 2022May 25, 2022 Staff Writer budget, buy, cash, cat, Coffee, cook, dollars, food, garlic, groceries, grocery, home, house, kitchen, leftover, leftovers, location, mayonnaise, Meal, meat, money, onion, Pet, plan, quality, recipe, salad, sandwich, sauce, save, saving, sense, shopping, snack, snacks, sugar, Taste, time, tips

Saving money is hard. Saving money on groceries is no exception in this era of rising food and fuel costs.

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Optimism Could Outpace Rising Interest Rates

May 14, 2022May 14, 2022 Staff Writer advice, are, art, before, best, business, buy, buyer, could, does, dollars, estate, finance, find, for, from, have, here, historic, historical, history, home, homebuyer, homebuyers, house, housing, how, ice, interest, loan, loans, long, low, market, may, mortgage, new, news, not, one, Optimism, outpace, plan, plunge, pro, pros, rates, ready, real, refinance, rent, rest, right, rising, sense, show, shows, side, some, spring, tea, that, this, time, today’s, trend, were, what, where, you, your

Interest rates are on the rise. That’s not news. However, what might surprise you is how buyers still feel about the market.

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Don’t Forget to Budget for Closing Costs

May 14, 2022May 14, 2022 Content Feed agent, attorney, budget, buy, buyer, buying, closing, cost, costs, dollars, don’t, dream, estate, expense, for, forget, hacks, home, ice, imported, insurance, land, local, market, mind, mortgage, Pet, plan, potential, prep, prices, pro, professional, purchase, question, questions, real, real estate, rent, saving, Sell, selling, sense, time, tips, wait, work, writing

When buying a home, it’s important to have a budget and make sure you plan ahead for certain homebuying expenses.

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Americans See Real Estate as a Better Investment Than Stocks or Gold

May 14, 2022May 14, 2022 Content Feed americans, appreciation, art, belief, believe, better, build, buy, buying, confidence, dollars, estate, fear, foreclosure, gold, home, homeowner, housing, ice, imported, interest, invest, investment, market, mortgage, Ownership, pan, prices, pro, question, rates, real, real estate, rent, rest, saving, savings, Savings account, see, sense, simple, slow, stocks, than, Thought, time, VA, value

Some question American confidence in real estate as a good long-term investment right now.