5 Rules for Buying a House (And How to Bend Them) There are five basic house-buying rules you should follow -- but there are times and ways you can bend them.
Home Loans: Look Before You Leap Every prospective homeowner should remember the phrase, "just because a lender will give you the loan, doesn't mean you...
4 Steps to Getting Back on Your Feet After a Storm If your property is damaged during a hurricane or other natural disaster, follow these steps to help get back on your feet.
12 Key Tips for Hiring Contractors and Builders Here are 12 tips to help you avoid costly mistakes when choosing and working with contractors and builders.
How to Manage Rising Home and Mortgage Prices Housing prices and mortgage interest rates are rising, making it more expensive than any time in recent memory to buy a home.
Ways to Save Big on Your Home Loan When buying a home, you shop around to get the very best value. But have you done the same legwork for your home loan?
What's Your Home's Price Tag Right Now? As the housing market bounces back, you may be wondering: What's my residence worth now?
Home for Sale: 7 Tips to Do It Yourself Selling a home on your own can yield significant savings in real estate brokerage fees. But it can also be a tricky process.
Is a Refinance the Right Decision? Once at rock bottom, interest rates have ticked up slightly. But the prospect of refinancing is still attractive.
What Can You Do When You're Upside-Down? Your PCS orders have arrived, but you're upside-down on your mortgage. Now what?
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...