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Homebuyers Keep Waiving Their Own Inspections Just to Win Brutal Bidding Wars, and Inspectors Say Foundation Cracks Are the Most Common Regret That Follows
Waiving a home inspection was once considered financial recklessness. During the height of pandemic-era bidding wars, it became a routine negotiating tactic, and it has not fully gone away even […]
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More Unmarried Best Friends Are Pooling Every Last Dollar They Have Just to Buy a House Together, and Real Estate Agents Warn the Paperwork Can Blow up Fast the Moment Money Gets Involved
Splitting a mortgage with a friend used to be a punchline. Now it is a strategy. As home prices keep outpacing wages, more unmarried adults are pooling savings with a […]
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Adjustable Rate Mortgages Are Roaring Back From the Dead as Desperate Buyers Gamble on Lower Payments, and the Mortgage Bankers Association Says This Comeback Has Not Been This Dramatic in Years
Adjustable-rate mortgages are having a moment they have not had in years. The ARM share of mortgage applications climbed to 8.0 percent in the last week of August, its highest […]
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Social Media Personality Bethany Michel Inherited Her Dying Father’s Home in a Fifty Five and Older Community and Has Spent Three Grueling Years Fighting Her Own HOA Just to Avoid Being Thrown Out
Bethany Michel was 22 when she moved into her father’s house in Jacksonville’s Arbor Mill neighborhood to care for him while he was terminally ill. He died in October 2023, […]
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Rapper Blueface Just Dropped $2.2 Million on a Sprawling Southern California Mansion, and Insiders Say His Rapidly Growing Family Finally Outgrew Every Home He Owned Before It
Rapper Blueface just closed on a $2.25 million home in Moorpark, California, and the timing was not an accident. The purchase came together, according to TMZ, just in time for […]
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This Hurricane Season Has Gone Eerily, Almost Unnervingly Quiet for the First Time in Sixty Years According to NOAA, and Insurance Experts Warn One Late Storm Could Wipe out That False Sense of Security Overnight
Five tropical storms. That is the entire tally for the Atlantic through the first week of September, and every one of them fizzled out fast. It is the slowest start […]
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Selena Gomez Just Sold Her Former Encino Estate, Once Home to Rock Legend Tom Petty, for $5.4 Million, and the Kitchen Was Actually the Secret Set of Her Own HBO Max Cooking Show
Selena Gomez has closed the sale on her longtime Encino estate for $5.4 million, a full $1 million under her original asking price, according to Hoodline. The deal closed September […]
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Nearly One In Five Companies Say Relocating Employees Turned Down A New Job Transfer Because Their Old House Would Not Sell In Time According To New Survey Data
Nearly one in five relocating employees who turn down a job transfer cite one specific reason: they can’t get their current house sold or off their hands. According to the […]
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Several Popular Smart Locks Are Failing Basic Break In Tests And Consumer Reports Says The Real Weak Point Is Almost Never The Lock Itself
Several of the most popular smart locks on the market are failing basic break-in resistance tests, and according to lab testing, the flaw usually isn’t the lock’s electronics at all. […]
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Smart Thermostats Promise Double Digit Energy Savings But A New Field Study Of Over A Thousand Real Households Found Almost No Difference At All
Smart thermostats are marketed with savings claims as high as 26% off heating and cooling bills. A field experiment covering 1,385 households found the devices produced no statistically significant energy […]