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4 Things Real Estate Agents Want You to Know About Waiving a Home Inspection
Source:Apartment Therapy --- If you’re financing a home (translation: you’re not an all-cash buyer!), your lender will require you to get an appraisal to make sure the home is worth the price you’re paying for it. An appraisal is different from a home inspection,...
Reinventing The Construction Workforce
Source: Forbes --- When most people think of construction, they think of excavators, bulldozers and a lot of dirt. They don't think about virtual reality, lasers, laptops, robots and autonomy — technology that's more often associated with futuristic portrayals of...
Real-Estate Frenzy Overwhelms Small-Town America: ‘I Came Home Crying’
Source: The Wall Street Journal --- Dominic Pollock, still in his work boots, stood on the lawn of a 1960s-era three-bedroom house for sale in the former steel town of Bethlehem, Pa., 60 miles north of Philadelphia. It was listed at $250,000. “I really, really like...
How the 2021 home-improvement boom became another division between boomers and millennials
Source: Business Insider --- The other side of the housing boom is here: home-renovation projects. As Americans were left with more time on their hands and more time in their houses, they began fulfilling their wildest HGTV fantasies. Home improvement and repair...
Former MBA chairman pleads guilty to bank fraud and money laundering
Source: MPA --- After months of protesting his innocence, a former chairman of the Mortgage Bankers Association is headed to prison for defrauding two warehouse lenders by selling more than $14 million of their loans “out of trust.” Ronald McCord, founder of Oklahoma...
For Low-Tax States, Four People Move In For Every One Person Who Leaves
Source: Redfin --- The trend is reversed in high-tax states, where an average of 2.5 people leave for every one person who moves in. One in five homebuyers cite lower taxes as one reason for their decision to move to a different area. For states with the lowest taxes,...
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