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Selling your home...beating the odds in a buyer's market: Home Improvements

If you're thinking of listing your home, bookmark our blog and don't miss this series. Over the past few weeks, we've introduce you to some statistics and tips to help you view your house not as your home, but as the future home of the buyer you need to attract. Our first topic was Pricing to Sell Your Home...then it was all about Curb Appeal. Now, we're talking about Home Improvements. So click here for the scoop!

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Introducing Market Insider, the FREE report that gives you valuable, customized, and up-to-date information on real estate trends in your local communities. Whether you're buying or selling a home, you'll have access to the data you need to make informed decisions in this ever-changing market. Create a customized Market Insider report on the areas you care about most, and then sign up to receive FREE monthly updates. Market Insider provides home listing and sale prices, community demographics, school ratings, side-by-side neighborhood comparisons, and more!
Whether you are looking to sell and want local market data, or are thinking about buying and want to explore different homes and neighborhoods, here is a great resource for you!
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The New Trend in Fixed Rate Mortgages...the 15 Year Loan

How would you like an extra $125,000?

Last week, interest rates dropped to their lowest point in 2011. We saw fixed rates as low as 4.375% for 30 years, 4.25% for 20 years, and 3.75% for 15 years. We also saw adjustable rates as low as 2.875%! The current trend in fixed rate mortgages is to pay a little extra and get a 15 year loan instead of a 30 year. What's the advantage? Let's take a look:

If you have a 30 year mortgage of $200,000 at 5% interest, your payment would be $1,074 /mo (Principal & Interest only). If you refinanced that to (or start off with) a 15 year mortgage at 3.75%, your payment would be $1,454 /mo (P&I). For a difference of $380 /mo, you could pay your mortgage off in 15 years instead of 30 and build equity in your home much faster...an extra $21,593 in equity in just 3 years and $37,613 in 5 years. Not only that, but by paying off the loan in 15 years instead of 30, you would save $125,000!!

Sound intriguing? Give us a call or shoot us an email and we'll refer you to a Lender that will help you take advantage of today's low rates!!