Buying a Home

I haven’t really talked about this publicly before, but we had to win a bidding war to buy our house last year. To make matters worse, it was right before the onset of the pandemic, making everything that much more stressful. Luckily, we succeeded and my family now enjoys living in a bigger, newer home. […]

Many people will tell you that you can’t really time the housing market. However, I can tell you that buying our home last year at the onset of the pandemic was one of the worst times. Dealing with the limbo period known as escrow – the waiting period while the buyer’s money is held by […]

With record low interest rates and a once in a lifetime (hopefully!) pandemic forcing so many to stay home, the past year was the perfect time to become a homeowner for the first time. Or just to move into a new house. Now though, home prices are sky high and the market is red hot […]

Buying a home is the biggest financial commitment most people ever make. It therefore demands careful consideration from every possible angle to know roughly how much it costs to build a house. Yet, many people ‒ and especially first-time buyers ‒ concentrate solely on the prebuilt and resale home markets. Doing so overlooks a potentially […]