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Author: Derin Tolu

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Derin Tolu

Rent Vs. Buy

Americans’ Expectations Align to Encourage Home Buying More consumers may be looking to purchase homes with a shift in several key housing market indicators, according to Fannie Mae’s March 2012 consumer attitudinal National Housing Survey. More Americans now expect both…

Tree Trouble on Property Lines

When a tree is planted between property lines, disputes may arise, and an otherwise neighborly relationship may be strained. Or perhaps a tree fell, and now no one knows who should cover the cost. From dangerous tree removal to the…

California Foreclosure Reform Update

From Housing Wire By Jon Prior • April 18, 2012 • 12:34pm Seven bills reforming some foreclosure rules passed committees in the California state legislature this week. The bills were introduced in February. One set of bills extends protections to tenants, giving…

How to adjust your underwater mortgage

Bakersfield’s real estate bust was certainly one of the worst in the country, and because of that, many homeowners have faced real challenges when evaluating the mortgage on their home. To a lesser extent, there was also plenty of pain…

How Interest Rates impact the housing market

borrowing power

Here in California, buying a home or other property is a factor of loan affordability. Today, we see a lot of “cash buyers” in the market – but that simply means that they have already arranged financing. In this borrowing…

Aiming to sell takes focus

When selling a home in an unfavorable market, it can be hard to face some facts. Most likely, your home will not command the price you want. It might be hard to cut your losses and move on. And you…

Goodness in Skydiving and Real Estate

Century 21 real estate agents have recently been on adventures to expand their personal courage and promote local charities. It is partially personal mission and partially component of the Century 21 mission of “Smarter, Bolder, Faster.” Recently, the Arroyo Grande…

How to Avoid a Kitchen Extension Disaster

An open kitchen is a hot home feature right now, and homeowners all across the country are extending their kitchens to include a living space. Unfortunately, many are seeing disastrous results due to poor planning and other complications. Kutchen Haus…

Who is tracking you online – home safety update

Ever visit a website looking for something, for example houses? Then every other time you searched for something else, Zillow, REALTOR.com, Trulia or some other real estate brokerage website shows up first in your search rankings! Some say “pretty cool……