Buying your first single-family home is both fun and scary. Looking through all of the new single-family home listings each week and having a legitimate reason to get out and tour all of the open houses is both enlightening and enjoyable. However, the large amount of money involved in the purchase of your first home is enough to give most first-time buyers a panic attack. Thankfully, if you are concerned about making the right choice and buying the right single-family home to meet your family's needs, then there are many common first-time home buying mistakes you can educate yourself about and thus avoid, including: [Read More]

The most common times of the year for people to house shop are during the spring and summer, and people do this for many reasons, including to move during the summer months when their kids are not in school. While you could buy a house during this time, there are some benefits you may experience if you choose to buy a house in the winter months instead. House prices generally drop [Read More]

If you have to put your home on the market and the housing inventory in your price range is already flooded with similar listings, you will have to enlist the help of a professional real estate agent. You don't want your house to be a property that sits on the MLS with no action. Instead, you want to have the expertise needed to get the house sold. Talk with the real estate agent about these different things. [Read More]

People generally assume that if there is a business on a property, it is commercial property, and if there is a residence or house on the property, it is residential property. Yet, what makes one property residential and another commercial, especially if these types of properties for sale are side by side, or they occupy the same property space (i.e., apartments or house attached to a store)? It is the zoning of a property that makes it this or that. [Read More]