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When it comes to making changes to your home in Fort Wayne, there are some home improvement projects that add value, in case you want to sell. It’s okay to add a swimming pool, or new windows to the entire house, or even upscale landscaping, but you won’t get the money you spend back out in […]

What a great way to avoid probate. Own assets with your spouse as joint tenants with right of survivorship. As Elaine Bedel, President, Bedel Financial Consulting writes in Inside Indiana Business, “It is very common for spouses to title property that they own together as “joint with right of survivorship.” When one passes, the other […]

Recently we wrote about FICO in Low FICO Credit Scores. FICO credit scores run from 300, considered the highest risk of default, to 850, the lowest risk. Now, Bernice Ross

Neil Terc at INMAN reveals how we can help our customers and clients. The 10 Home Buying Secrets for Hispanics can help us here in Fort Wayne understand how to do a better job

Of the Four Ds, Death in a family, Debt, Divorce, and Down-sizing, divorce dominates reasons to sell a house.  Many people when confronted with the prospect of divorce want to know how assets will be divided. How they will maintain their standard of living? Who gets the house? How can we sell the house fast? […]

As for the Fort Wayne economy and real estate for 2016, what should we expect next year? Douglas M. McCoy writing for the Indiana Business Review says, “Consumer confidence, job growth and low interest rates are the primary drivers that bring potential homebuyers to the housing market. Considering these factors, along with an important projected […]

Sara Wagner at Wane.com wrote, “Wednesday afternoon, the Federal Reserve announced it is raising rates, its short-term interest rate, by a quarter to a half percent from essentially zero. It hasn’t raised rates since 2006 when the financial crisis started, and those have held steady at nearly zero percent since 2008. “Local financial expert Greg Reynolds, president of Reynolds […]

When you know that you are going to be inheriting a house, nothing has to be done immediately. You and siblings will have a lot of different emotions and memories about the home. Think about what the home means to each of you. Some may want to sell and split the proceeds immediately. Others may […]

Last week we covered downsizing and looked at the trend to Tiny houses. If you have downsized already, and your new home feels small, try hiring an interior designer for ways to make your house look and feel bigger. We thought we might look at the things interior designers do to make small houses look […]

Of all the reasons to sell house Fort Wayne,  the Four Ds dominate. The four Ds are Death in a family, too much Debt, Downsizing in Fort Wayne after the kids leave home, and Divorce. We hadn’t thought too much about downsizing in Fort Wayne until a friend’s mother decided to sell the big house after her husband […]