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Should you rent or buy? Is it better to buy or rent in Omaha, Neb.?If you guessed buy, you'd be wrong. According to the new Trulia Rent vs. Buy index, it makes more fiscal sense to rent in this farm city due to the huge gap between rental and purchase prices.Until recently, the perennial real est...

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What's happening in the housing market? What's being done about it? Learn about the government's new HAFA program, providing foreclosure avoidance options including short sales and deeds-in-lieu of foreclosure. Here's the big picture, clearly explained.   Check out this video: http://www.nowuknow...

Know your rights as a tenant before signing a leaseBy Harvey S. JacobsJust because a landlord puts a clause in a lease doesn't mean the clause is legal, valid or even binding on the tenant. Attempts by landlords to enforce certain clauses may even subject them to triple damages and having to pay ...

Real Estate's Far Reach to Continue to Pinchby Conor DoughertyHighflying property prices drove the most-recent economic boom, and a collapse in real-estate values hammered it back down. Now, as the economy struggles to regain strength, real estate is expected to continue to act as a brake, rather...

Why Americans Get Ripped Off on Mortgage LoansBy James R. Hagerty You might think that Americans would have learned over the past few years that home mortgages can be dangerous products, to be approached warily, only after careful study and consideration. You would be wrong.Americans spend twice ...

Drowning in home debtBy Lisa Gibbs, A transfer in 2005 landed Air Force major Richard Hallbeck, his wife, and two kids in Southern California smack in the middle of the real estate bubble. Home prices in the area had doubled in the past five years and were still climbing. So the Hallbecks swallow...

In Sour Home Market, Buying Often Beats Rentingby David Leonhardt In much of the country, for much of the last decade, renting a home has usually been a better financial move than buying one. It's been true in Southern California, San Francisco, Phoenix, Las Vegas and large parts of Florida, the ...

Example #1On 4/22/09, I received an email about a client being LATE on her mortgage and wanted to know her options. We discussed Loan Modifications and Short Sales. She was turned down from her bank to do a Loan Modification so we entered into a listing agreement in May 2009 to do a Short Sale. ...