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2014 

For any Henry County resident who has ever been stymied by seemingly arbitrary (or, put another way, nutty) lowering of his or her all-important credit score, next month’s beginning rollout of Fair Isaac’s new credit score model should be welcome news. It will be known as “FICO 9”—and promises to...
10/30/2014
Even before you are presented with the sheaf of paperwork that accompanies the signing of your first mortgage, if you are a Henry County first-time home buyer, you will have already learned about closing costs—the fees and charges that pay for various parts of creating the mortgage loan. Included...
10/28/2014
 The financial press has been on it for a while: in September, Bloomberg News was pointing out that FHA mortgages to borrowers with weaker credit scores had plummeted 19% in the previous nine months. Something, you could sense, was about to give—but, per Bloomberg, “Washington regulators and majo...
10/27/2014
A recent Zillow survey again confirmed that extensive renovations are usually not the shortest path to a sale. Across the board, experts agree: it’s still curb appeal and home staging—staging that highlight’s a home’s best features while downplaying its flaws—that often prove most effective. So, ...
10/26/2014
Your Henry County home listing is, hands-down, the most likely place prospective buyers will get their first glimpse of the home you are selling. Most serious prospects will go online as an early step in the process of winnowing candidate properties by area, asking price, number of bedrooms, etc....
10/23/2014
  Despite what just feels like the right answer, buying a home in Henry County can be significantly cheaper than renting one. It’s one of those rare cases where, if you stop and make common sense judgments about the factors at play, the ‘just feels like’ conclusion is the opposite of the one comm...
10/22/2014
Establishing the asking price for a Henry County home may not quite qualify as science fiction, but it can be a bit of an adventure in time and space—at least when it comes to establishing the Henry County comparables. The logic behind valuing a property by looking at recent Henry County comparab...
10/21/2014
There are currently 1027 active homes for sale in Henry County. The average listing price for Real Estate in Henry County during the month of October is $229,472. The median list price in October for single family residential and condo/town home properties in Henry County is $179,900. The typical...
10/21/2014
Despite what just feels like the right answer, buying a home in Henry County can be significantly cheaper than renting one. It’s one of those rare cases where, if you stop and make common sense judgments about the factors at play, the ‘just feels like’ conclusion is the opposite of the one common...
10/21/2014
Once you’ve made the decision to move—whether headed across the country or across town—you might think the automatic next step is to prepare to sell your current house. True, that has to get underway without delay…but there should be one intervening step—one which all too frequently gets short sh...
10/20/2014
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