Your Rights as a Contractee
You're mentally prepared to renovate your home, and know what you want
and the price you'd like to pay. But what are your rights as the contractee
(also known as the homeowner)? Barbara Buchholz has the answer.
Negotiating Strategies In A Buyer's and Seller's Market
Negotiating takes on a different tenor depending on the state of the current real estate market. Margaret Crane provides advice to both sides of the negotiating table, with tips and suggestions for buyers and sellers.
Buying a Fixer-Upper
Why do people buy fixer-uppers?
They're looking for a real estate investment: Buy a home that needs work, throw some time and money into it, and then sell it for a profit. Jim Sulski overviews the pros and cons.
If you're not a curtain person, take down your living and dining room drapes and convert them into pillow coverings or even a special tablecloth.
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How to Negotiate as a Buyer or a Seller Ilyce Glink is the bestselling author of 100 Questions Every First Time Home Buyer Should Ask,
and is the Managing Editor of Right at Home Daily.
Handy tips and tools formatted for your printer or PDA.
Fall Maintenance Chores
Owning a house, as any homeowner will tell you, is a never-ending job. A new repair job seems to come up just as you finish
one. But an ounce of prevention is truly worth a pound of cure. Jim Sulski has a list of maintenance chores for fall that will help keep your home in shape for the season.
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