August 2011

Tweet We’ve all been trying to predict the arrival of the housing recovery, but the truth is that the bottom has been a long, deep and slippery one. If you finally bought a place, you’d be buying lower and at more sensible terms than most – if not all – of those “house poor” friends [...]

Tweet A fender bender isn’t the only kind of accident that can raise your auto premium. Forget to make a credit card payment, and it might cost more to insure your ride. Most auto, homeowner and other property insurers use a credit-based insurance score to determine how likely it is you’ll file a claim, according [...]

Tweet In order to answer this question for you, we first must understand the three most important words in real estate: Long-term ownership. When we buy property, whether as a personal residence or for investment, we do it in hopes that we are financially better off down the road than we are today. The chance [...]