This week’s episode includes what’s going on with mortgage rates, rent vs buy reports and credit tips to help you with holiday shopping.
If you or anyone you know are considering buying, refinancing or selling a home, please contact me! I am always happy to help.
Mortgage Market Update for the Week of November 18, 2024
November 18, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Should You Wait to Buy A Home?
June 29, 2023 by Leave a Comment
If you’ve been considering buying a home or if you’re a real estate agent who is working with clients who are on the fence about buying; please check out my latest resource page: Should You Wait to Buy a Home (mortgageporter.loans)
I have prepared various scenarios that compare renting to buying a home as well as a report on the cost of waiting.
Of course, I’m more than happy to prepare scenarios to help you decide if you should wait to buy a home now or rent. Please reach out to me if I can be of any assistance!
Reason to stop paying rent #7: You have a pet
April 24, 2018 by Leave a Comment
I love my pets, Rocko and Hitch. We have had pets before we had (our now adult) children. I totally understand someone’s anguish when they are trying to deal with where they are going to live when they have pets.
This morning, I was catching up on Facebook and in our local neighborhood group for West Seattle, a neighbor is worried about if their landlord is getting ready to sell the home they are currently renting. [Read more…]
How to Buy a Home with your Roommate
July 19, 2016 by 2 Comments
Fannie Mae’s HomeReady mortgage allows a home buyer to qualify using “boarder income”. What does this mean? Remember our favorite roommates Laverne and Shirley?
Is Renting Getting too Expensive? Consider buying a home
October 30, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Zumper has released their fall rental report revealing that Seattle has the 10th most expensive rents for a major city in the nation for one bedroom apartments. Zumper reports that the average rent in September for a one bedroom in Seattle is $1600. That’s up 0.6% from the previous month and up a whopping 7.1% compared the last quarter. Zumper reports that a 2 bedroom apartment averaged $2200 for rent in Seattle. In May, I wrote about how a 2 bedroom in Seattle was averaging $1907 for rent.
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