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Life happens. Sometimes when it does, it’s your credit that suffers and it can be a challenge to find a lender to give you a break. We’ve...

The journey to finance or refinance a home too often feels overwhelming, time-consuming, and an experience that most of us would choose to...

Bonfires, colorful leaves, football games, apple picking, pumpkin carving, sweaters… all these things and more make fall a treasured time...

Have you heard of bike-sharing and car-sharing? These aren’t taxi rides and they’re not even crowd-sourced rides like Uber. Bike sharing...

Homeownership is exciting, but it does come with its share of responsibilities, too. The trick is to find ways to make tasks and less time...

Private Mortgage Insurance (or PMI) really gets a bad rap. A lot of people think about PMI the same way that they think about income taxes...

We've been going through a lot these past few months as my son, Noah was seriously injured in an accident. My family and I were also...

Are you considering selling your home soon? If you are, you should consider staging it. Staging a home means decorating and furnishing it...

You are likely paying for your city and county trail systems – many are maintained with tax dollars – so why not USE them? Multi-use trail...

So, you’ve decided that you are tired of renting that small apartment when you can get a nice home for close to the same amount of money...