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Efficient Expenditures, Return on Investment, and Making a House a Home
While homebuyers’ purposes for purchasing a home always fall on a spectrum somewhere between purchasing a home to live in for the rest of your life to a home that you will sell in a few months for a profit, every rational person should operat...
Budgeting For Your Home 101
Regardless of how money-savvy you think you are, buying your first home will test everything you thought you knew about keeping your financial house in order. While the same rules apply, budgeting becomes a bit more complicated – you need to ...
Rental Properties and Efficient Spending
People purchase homes for a myriad of reasons, but they all fall somewhere on the spectrum between living in the home year-round on one end, and a pure investment property on the other. If you are looking at a property as an investment, that pu...
YOUR BEST FRIEND MIGHT BE VERY EXPENSIVE: TAKE STEPS TO AVOID THAT
While they may be “man’s best friend”, dogs can have a negative impact on the value of your home; especially if they happen to have separation anxiety. There is a hidden cost having dogs in a home you own, far beyond what the actual cost ...
Designing While Keeping it Green: A Cheat Sheet
Unless you’ve been living under a rug, you are aware of the recent global strike for climate change; well over a million people have gathered to protest multiple government’s inaction on the issue of climate change. This article is not abou...
Autumn Design Trends: The Time is Now
Autumn has officially arrived, and the weather will theoretically change; sunsets will certainly come earlier, and the weather will certainly “cool down” (in Los Angeles, “cooling down” doesn’t mean it will be cold). Ultimately, peopl...
Fed Cuts Rates .25% in the Face of Global Uncertainty: It’s a Good Time to Buy
Amidst a global economic slowdown, the Federal Reserve voted to reduce interest rates by .25% on Wednesday; this is the second time in two months that they have done so. This vote was a notable because of the wide range of opinions held by the ...
HOW TO CAPITALIZE ON LOW RATES AND REFINANCE LIKE A PRO
If you’re a homeowner that still has a mortgage on their home, like most homeowners, you have probably been keeping an eye on the record low interest rates. The reason you should be following the rates is because low interest rates typically ...