Friday, April 11, 2008

5 Tips for Buying a Home in a Down Market

The subprime mortgage bust has scared a lot of people away from the housing market. The nightly news is filled with images and stories of everyday Americans who are losing their homes because they made greedy and uninformed decisions, they were taken advantage of by predatory brokers, or a combination of these situations. However, the news isn’t all bad. This decline in the market has dropped prices and made housing affordable to many fiscally responsible renters who never considered home ownership to be an option.

If you find yourself house-hunting, make sure that you follow these five simple steps to take advantage of this downturn in the market; if you don’t, you could be the next sad story on your local news...more [Bankaholic.com April 10, 2008]

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It's so sad to hear that the house that we been dreaming of might be lost.


-Ella