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Buying A Home Series: Step Three – Interview Loan Officers

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There’s a lot of stress that is involved in buying a home but ultimately there are two groups of people that can help navigate or create a nightmarish situation.
Real Estate Agents & Loan Officers
We’ll cover agents throughout, hopefully, if you are reading this you’ll be using the Jarvis Team at Keller Williams to help you [...]

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Buying A Home Series: Step 2 – Setting Up Your Budget

Home Buyer Budget January 30, 2010

Believe it or not, most home buyers never even consider their budget.   Most home buyers do what we did with the advice my Mother gave me.  Take your income and multiply by 3 and that’s the home you could buy.  So if you make $50K you could reasonable afford a $150,000 home.  There’s different variations [...]

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Buying A Home Series: Step One – Pray

December 22, 2009

You might not agree with me, but I think the first step in the home buying process is prayer.  You definitely should be saving and budgeting, etc, which are next steps actually but prayer should be at the start of your day and I believe at the start of your purchase.
Before I jump in, if [...]

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From Businessweek: If You Don’t Buy A Home, You’re Broke or Stupid

http://www.gahomesdigest.com/images/rate-chart-bsnweek.jpg December 14, 2009

Believe it or not, this is the title of the article.  I’ve never said this and don’t agree with what I believe to be a salacious title, but I do agree with the jist of the article.  Rates are low, prices are at an all time low.  There are several great reasons NOT to buy, but hundreds [...]

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Most People Who Bought In 2009 Expect 10%

Real Estate Buyer Trends November 18, 2009

According to a recent NAR survey, 73% of all buyers expect a 10% or more appreciation in the next 5 years.
The survey asked 1004 buyers about their thoughts on their purchase.
Here’s the highlights:

1 out of 8 buyers are planning on buying for investment.
25% of buyers are buying or plan to buy foreclosure (THIS MEANS THAT [...]

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Buyer’s Delight – Tax Credit Additions | Extensions

Home Buyer Tax Credit November 9, 2009

If you were buying a home and rushing to close by Nov. 30th, you can now breathe a sigh of relief.  Let’s go over what’s happened and the rationale.

First Time Home buyer tax credit of $8,000 extended to April 30th, 2010 – NEW WRINKLES

If you are under contract by the 30th, you can still get [...]

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Georgia Home Buying Guide Intro Video

November 5, 2009

Be sure to check back for the next update in this series and process!
<<Table of Contents>>                                                  <<Step One>>

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Buying A Home Series: Intro

Path to Home Ownership November 4, 2009

Over the next few weeks I’ll be covering how the Jarvis Team walks a buyer from being interesting in purchasing a home to the actual purchase.  After 7 years of helping buyers almost exclusively, we’ve seen that for most buyers the process is very similar.
There are several steps. Along the way I’m going to include [...]

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TAX CREDIT – LAST MINUTE CRAM GUIDE

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Got a lot of folks asking me a bunch of questions about the $8000 First Time Home buyer tax credit, so I thought I might try to answer it here.
Only 2 Weeks?  I though it was until Dec 1st.
Right! Unless you have cash, it’ll likely take your lender about 30 days to work through [...]

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Broward County Residents Top List of Relocating Buyers

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As a Relocation expert for over 7 years I have always tracked where folks from other states move to and county growth etc. Outside local moves from say Decatur to Lawrenceville which make up the majority of the buyers in Gwinnett County, moves from Florida, New York and California have always topped the [...]

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