The Most Affordable Ways to Get Your Home Ready For Market
So you wanna sell your house? Great. You don’t want to do anything to prepare it for showings? Not so great. One of the biggest myths right now is that this market will allow for any home to be sold for any price in any condition. Just list it and sell it over the weekend. […]
Out With The Old, In With The Bold
White and gray everything has been the dominating color scheme over the past several years, and honestly, we’re exhausted of it. We get it; it’s easy to style with accents and it looks clean, but at this point it’s uninviting, overdone, and sterile. Not to mention, an all-white kitchen is a terrifying place to cook! We […]
Jenn’s Homeiversary: A Reflection On My Best Impulse Buy To Date
The title of this is not clickbait. I did, in fact, become a home-owner on impulse 6 years ago today. Now, one might think that this is irresponsible. Because why would someone just make an in-the-moment decision to say “well screw renting. I’m gonna buy a house instead”, and then just do it without months […]
Debunking The 20%
Recent conversations with our millennial peers has helped us understand a huge misconception towards the home-buying process: 20%. I’m sure you’ve heard that the way to buy a home is to spend 20% of the sale price as your down payment. And this definitely was common practice, up until 2005. That number was such a […]
Highest Does Not Equal Best
Who has heard someone say “Well I don’t want to buy right now because I don’t want to get into a bidding war”? Maybe the person you’ve heard saying this was the same person reading along right now (I’m lookin’ at you, my friend). And I have one follow-up question for this objection– Why? Price […]
“Now What?” pt. 3
3. Time to get out there! Welcome back to our third and final point in our “Now What?” series, where we begin to break down the basics to the beginning stages and steps to home-ownership. If you’ve missed the first two, be sure to go back and read through to catch up as we have […]
“Now What?” pt. 2
Welcome back to the “I want to buy a house, now what?” series! In our last article, we went over the importance of speaking to and selecting a lender as your very first step in the home-buying process. If you have not yet already, go back and read part one before continuing on. All caught […]
“Now What?” pt. 1
For this week’s article, we’re taking a little bit of a different approach than what we had normally intended. Instead of presenting the weeks topic question to you all and writing based on the responses we would receive, we’ve decided it was important to address the number one most frequently asked question we hear whenever […]
No Problems, Just Solutions.
What you are about to read is inspired by the responses we’ve received from asking this question: What challenges do you think millennials face in the housing market compared to earlier generations? It comes as no surprise that this generation has faced a lifetime’s worth of experiences in our 23-41 years on this earth. I […]