You’ve weighed the benefits, considered your options, and made your choice. Congratulations! Buying your first home may be the biggest decision of your life. The process of buying...
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Your First Home in Alameda: Before Hiring a Realtor
You’ve done your homework; checked your credit report and calculated how much house you can afford based on your income and the money you have available for a down payment. You have...
Home Safety for Pets: Fido-proofing your home
You’ve made sure to carefully dispose of anti-freeze and other chemicals that could poison your pet. You’ve cut mistletoe and “icicle” type tinsel from your holiday...
Peachy Alameda; a brief history
In 1853, W.W. Chipman and Gideon Auginbaugh planted peach trees on the land that thirty years later would become the City of Alameda. Just a year after the peach orchards were...
Just How One Defines Mortgage Delinquencies
Even if the payment is settled a day after it’s due, it’s still considered late. Although there are cases when late payment is inevitable, lenders and banks have different...
Useful Tips to Avoid Foreclosure
Paying your mortgage for years and losing it in a heartbeat is not easy. But with the downturn of economy and people losing their jobs left and right, things like this is bound to...
Lenders Often Help, Seriously
Most homeowners worry that a few months of non-payment to mortgage will make lenders come crashing through the doors of their home to get their keys and kick them out of the house....
Foreclosure Assistance: How to Find Prevention Resource Center
No one gains from a foreclosed property. Banks and other lending institutions never get to increase their profit by foreclosing a lender’s home so they offer proper foreclosure...
Tips on How to Deal with Mortgage Payment during Financial Trouble
Lenders never want to foreclose. Even if it seems that lenders are notorious in foreclosing homes especially in times of recession, the truth of the matter is, they see it as a last...
Foreclosure Prevention and Assistance from Alameda
The effect of recession has reverberated even in the most important sector of business – the real estate. The line up of real estate in the brink of foreclosure has urged the local...