How To Buy Your First Home In San Antonio
Acquiring your first house is a momentous occasion. San Antonio’s diverse neighborhoods and distinctive housing market can intensify the challenge of this pursuit. Nevertheless, through…
How To Buy Your First Home In Philadelphia
Buying your first home is a significant milestone, and it can be an exciting but daunting process. Philadelphia, with its diverse neighborhoods and unique housing…
How To Buy Your First Home In Phoenix
Embarking on the journey of finding that first home stands as a momentous occasion, a path brimming with both anticipation and uncertainty. The city of…
How To Buy Your First Home In Houston
Embarking on the journey to acquire your first home is an awe-inspiring milestone. The process can be both exhilarating and a tad overwhelming, especially when…
How To Buy Your First Home In Los Angeles
Embarking on your journey as a first-time homebuyer in Los Angeles is an exciting venture, but it can also seem a bit overwhelming. The city’s…
How To Buy Your First Home In New York City
Are you ready to take the plunge into the New York City real estate market and purchase your first home? Congratulations! Owning a home in…
How To Build Massive Wealth After Buying Your First Home
I previously wrote an entire post strongly encouraging you to buy a home if you can afford to. In my humble opinion, owning your primary…
6 Hidden Costs When Buying Your First Home
As a first time home buyer it is important to be aware of the very expensive additional costs that you will incur at closing. Many…
Should I Rent an Apartment or Buy A House?
Renting vs. buying a home is a common problem most first-time homebuyers face when deciding on their living situation. Many people find themselves asking the…
How to Prepare For Expensive Home Repairs
It’s no secret that owning a home is expensive. Heck, that’s why we created Kabinet. The benefits of homeownership far outweigh the minuses but we…
5 Reasons I Like Where I Live
Buying the right home goes far beyond the home itself. We were very lucky to buy a home we liked and stumbled upon a wonderful…
5 Things You Need To Know When Buying A Home With An HOA
In the interest of fairness, I must let you know that I no longer live in a Homeowners Association (HOA) community. An HOA is an…
How To Use A Deferred Interest Credit Card
If you’ve ever gone furniture shopping you know about Deferred Interest Credit Cards. Every store gives them a fancy name or passes them off as…
How to Save Thousands With The Mortgage Interest Deduction
Over the last two years home prices have increased like never before. Since the Federal Reserve’s change in monetary policy interest rates have followed suit…
Top 5 Pitfalls To Avoid When Remodeling Your Home
The home repair remodeling industry is fraught with pitfalls and minefields. The following are the five most important aspects to be aware of if you…
The Amazing Tax Benefit of Home Ownership- What is it and how does it work? (Personal Residence Exclusion)
You must understand this tax rule as a homeowner! Your home has one of the most far-reaching tax benefits in the entire Internal Revenue Code….
How to Sell Your Home For Sale By Owner (FSBO)- 3 Tips
Tip #1– Put your phones on silent the night before you list your property FSBO When you list your home FSBO your phone will be…
Selling Your Home – When is the best time to sell and how to know if you are ready?
Yes, it has been a very hot real estate market over the last two years – so you may be thinking it’s very easy to…
The future of the kitchen – is the oversized white/grey kitchen a thing of the past?
If you’re anything like us, you love the oversized white/grey kitchen that has become the staple of luxury homes over the last 10+ years. Through…
Open Floor Plan Homes- Should your new home be open floor plan? An Honest Review
After watching HGTV for years it was only natural to have a fondness for open floor plan homes when searching for our first home. These…
5 Tips For Newlyweds Moving Into Their First Home
Moving into your first home as a newlywed couple can be an exciting and overwhelming experience. It’s a new chapter in your life, and you…
Top 5 Signs You Are Ready to Buy A Home Now | Kabinet
Sign #1 – You’ve saved up enough money for a down payment I’m not going to shock you when I say buying a home is expensive(!)…
Getting Outbid on The House of Your Dreams? 3 Important Tips to Get Your Offer Accepted!
The pandemic changed the economy forever and no sector more so than real estate. These changes have been fascinating to observe as the entire world…
5 Questions You Need To Ask Your Mortgage Broker
We are The Essential Homeowner App! Create your fully free account now and see why it’s the app you always needed! If you are a…
29 Tips for Home Loans and Buying Real Estate by Chicago Mortgage Broker Chad Masters
1: The difference between retail and wholesale. Retail equates to banks, credit unions and direct lenders (some big direct lenders would be Quicken, Guaranteed Rate, Fairway,…
Sold Your Home for a Fortune in 2021? Where Should You Move Next?
A common theme for our blog articles is that the Covid 19 real estate market is crazy! From bidding wars to waived inspections and a…
Sell or Remodel? What Makes More Sense With Inflation?
The effects of inflation are being felt by nearly everyone in every place across the globe, but especially here in the United States today. Whether…
