An open house is the cheapest inspection you will ever get. The listing shows you the house at its best; twenty minutes on site shows you the rest. Here is what our agents check first.OutsideWhere does the water go? Look at the grading, the gutters and the...
Mortgages are simpler than the paperwork suggests. Three choices set your payment: the rate type, the term and whether you buy the rate down. Everything else is detail.Fixed or adjustableA fixed rate never changes — you know your payment for thirty years. An...
“Eco-friendly” appears in a third of the listings we see, and in most of them it means a bamboo floor. Buyers increasingly know the difference, and so should sellers. Here is what genuinely changes the running cost — and the value — of a home.The big threeInsulation...
