Home Equity
2021 Mortgage Interest Rate Forecast
The low-rate window is coming to a close!
Whether you're looking to buy your first home or refinance your mortgage, it's important to understand where the market is and where it's headed. Why? Because when you're up-to-date on market trends, you're better positioned to save money.By knowing when the time is right to secure or refinance a mortgage, you can lock in a low interest rate. With ...
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Mortgage Refinance
One Brilliant Way a Cash-Out Refi Can Pay the Mortgage
Boss-level home improvement: Build a tiny house on your property, and the renter pays your mortgage.
Mortgage Refinance
Cash Out Refinances Are Suddenly All the Rage
Historically low rates are driving more and more homeowners to tap into their home equity.
Getting Started
Shape Up Your Finances Prior to a Refi or Mortgage
Follow this 4-step financial fitness program so lenders will see you at your best.
Mortgage Refinance
Are You Sitting on Refinance Gold?
A housing market downturn is great news for refinancing homeowners.
Household Finances
Stop Wasting Money Buying Rental Car Coverage Twice
Insurance by your credit card, even if there's a flat fee, is bound to be cheaper than what's offered by the rental car company.
Mortgage News
Refinance Rates Freefall After Government Eliminates Universally Hated Fee
Refi fee costing homeowners thousands at closing is no more.
Home Buying
Advantages of Buying in an Older Neighborhood
A more walkable life in a place with character and trees can be yours when you buy an older home.
Household Finances
When to Review Your Homeowners Insurance Policy
5 reasons it might be time to review your coverage.
Home Improvement
How One Man Started a Real Estate Empire Without a Dollar to His Name
And you can too...
Green Living
How Green Energy Is Facing the Challenges
Popular and pollution-free energy resources need to scale up and spread out, as the green energy industry well knows.
Home Improvement
Replacing Your Roof? Why Not Go Solar As Well?
Combining both jobs can save you serious cash.
Energy Saving Tips
The 3 Biggest Energy Hogs in a Typical Home and What You Can Do About It
Electricity is America's number one power source, so where is most of the juice going in your home?
Solar Incentives
Energy Prices to Rise 5% by Next Year While Solar Gets Cheaper
Rate trends strengthen home solar's value proposition.
Green Living
Reap the Benefits of Off-Grid Living Without Going Hermit
As scientists increase their understanding of how nature benefits humans, we've learned how to bring the goodness to where we already live.
Solar Basics
How Much Solar Would It Take to Replace Your Energy Bill?
A simplified look at how powerful a solar energy system your house would need for you to replace your energy bill.
Solar Basics
Solar Panel Inspection and Permit Process
What to expect when the time comes to go solar.
Solar Basics
How Many Hours of Sunlight Do Solar Panels Need?
And how to calculate those peak hours.
Solar News
Tech Heavyweights Pledge Green Futures
This decade, the world's most valuable companies (all of them American) will be putting their money where their mouth is.
Solar News
Covid-19 Hastened Peak Oil, If It Isn't Already Here: Experts
The pandemic set oil production back two years while investments in alternative energy grew, leading some forecasters to predict an earlier arrival of peak oil.
