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Veterans Aid and Attendance Benefits: Are You Eligible? November 11, 2009 is Veteran's Day. Right at Home would like to remind wartime Veterans and surviving spouses of deceased wartime Veterans about a special monthly benefit called Aid and Attendance.What is the Veterans Aid and Attendance Bene...

Renters get relief from foreclosureBy Marcie Geffner A new federal law offers renters more protection from eviction if their landlord loses the property through foreclosure. The law has some fuzzy requirements, but should be a boon to renters who otherwise might have been evicted with little or n...

A look behind the lack of affordable family housingElizabeth Razzi Families are being priced out of the Washington area housing market. Or at least they're being driven to the far edges of the metro area and forced into long commutes to and from employment hubs. That's the message in a new report...

Homeowners Walking AwayBy BOB TEDESCHI A RECENT study suggests that most homeowners have qualms about abandoning a mortgage that they can afford to pay, even if it straps them to an investment that's unlikely to pay off anytime soon.But if the house has lost significant value, or if many neighbor...

Top 10 Money Tips for Womenby CNBC Staff When it comes to women and finance, sometimes there's a disconnect between what women know and how they act, their ability as achiever and their financial underachieving, and between the power they have within reach and the powerlessness that rules their a...

7 Questions You Must Ask Before Buying a Condo You've found your dream condo, and you're ready to relax among the mango trees and swaying date palms. Hold everything. To keep from getting stuck with a lemon, you've got to do some homework. Here are the seven most important questions you need to a...

Is it time to dump your ARM?Some 1.5 million adjustable-rate mortgages reset soon. If yours is one of them, you need to decide whether to lock in your rate and refinance into a new loan.By Beth Braverman If you are among the 6.5 million homeowners who took out a low-rate adjustable-rate mortgage ...

Home-Buyer Credit Is Focus of InquiryBy JOHN D. MCKINNON WASHINGTON -- The Internal Revenue Service is examining more than 100,000 suspicious claims for the first-time home-buyer tax break, another sign of potential trouble for the soon-to-expire program.The measure, adopted in February as part o...

Doubling Down On the Wrong Housing PolicyBy Charles Lane The New York Times reports that a schoolteacher in Colorado recently got talked into buying a $134,000 fixer-upper with only 3.5 percent down. To afford that smidgen of equity, she liquidated her retirement savings. The bank rolled closing ...

7 steps to a great foreclosure buyBy Tracey C. Velt 1.  Getting a good deal on a foreclosed homeForeclosure. It seems half the country is in it and the other half is trying to make a killing on it.The number of foreclosed homes staggers the imagination and with more adjustable-rate loans about to...