Buying A Home
Our Home Buying Guide walks you through the process step by step, so you’ll never have to wonder what’s going to happen next. Start from the top, or jump in wherever you are in the process.
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1 Preparing To Buy A House
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2 Finding Your Home Buying Budget
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3 Hiring A Real Estate Agent
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4 Finding The Right Home
- Pros and cons of different types of homes
- Open houses: What’s their role in the home-buying process?
- Condo or house: Which should I buy?
- Warrantable & non-warrantable condo mortgage rules updated
- Multifamily homes: Make your house pay for itself
- Safe neighborhood: How to check it out before buying a home
- Considering a home with a long commute? Don’t drive yourself crazy
- Should climate change dictate where you buy a house?
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5 Making An Offer
- How to make a winning offer on a house: 7 Strategies
- Study: Three strategies that can make or break your offer on a house
- Understanding a real estate contract or purchase agreement
- What’s a contingency in a real estate purchase contract?
- Watch out for these pitfalls in your real estate purchase agreement
- Counteroffer definition: What does it mean when I get a counteroffer?
- How to get out of a real estate contract
- How do I finalize my offer to buy a home?
- What happens when my real estate offer is accepted? [Video]
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6 Ordering A Home Inspection
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7 Finalizing Your Mortgage
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8 Getting A Home Appraisal
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9 Closing On Your Home Loan
- How long does underwriting take? Is ‘no news good news’?
- Home closing: Avoid falling at the finish line
- Home closing: What you need to read, what you can skim
- Preparing for your real estate purchase closing
- Cash to close: What is it, how to pay it and how to avoid fraud
- What is “recording” when closing on a home purchase?
- Home closing: What happens on the day of funding?
- When is my first mortgage payment due?
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10 Getting Keys And Moving In
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