Basic Home Buying Skills Columbus OH

This article offers tips for responsible home buying, including emphasis on setting a budget, saving, knowing your credit report, and looking for expert help in the process.

Local Companies

Miller/Watson Architects, Ltd.
(614) 224-9743
161 N. Fourth Street
Columbus, OH
Allquest Real Estate Next Generation Realty
(614) 267-4733
3857 N High St
Columbus, OH
Real Estate Appraisal Group
(614) 538-1925
5310 E Main St
Columbus, OH
Brown Theodore A Rl Est Appsr
(614) 475-3518
110 Nob Hill Dr S
Columbus, OH
Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Brokerage Co
(614) 464-1400
21 E State St
Columbus, OH
David Ross Realty
(614) 263-3743
175 Orchard Ln
Columbus, OH
Wood David S Rl Est
(614) 481-5548
2470 Farleigh Rd
Columbus, OH
Morris Philip G Real Estate
(614) 224-2026
Columbus, OH
Roi Realty Services Inc
(614) 221-2500
555 S Front St Ste 350
Columbus, OH
Nowell Real Estate Co
(614) 258-2331
413 Saint Clair Ave
Columbus, OH

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The fundamentals still apply. It's time to get back to the basics of buying a home and not just because lenders are forcing your hand. It's the financially savvy thing to do.

by Broderick Perkins
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Deadline Newsroom - Lenders tightening their purse strings have sent a signal to potential home buyers to do the same.

There's really little choice.

Just as lenders more and more often make certain mortgage applicants are gainfully employed; are sure borrowers can actually afford to pay the mortgage during it's full term; and more carefully document that buyers have the cash to cover additional costs that come with home ownership, potential home buyers need to get their financial house in order.



"If people were really responsible for their own financial behavior that would have taken the power away from people who put them in these (risky) loans," says Shawneequa Badger, a real estate agent with Century 21-Alpha in San Jose, CA.

"The reason for all the creative financing was because people didn't want to do the work. Well, now it's time to do the work or cut your losses," says Badger and other agents who are stepping up to provide an approach to home buying that doesn't require classes in the school of hard knocks. ...

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Featured Local Company

Miller/Watson Architects, Ltd.

(614) 224-9743
161 N. Fourth Street
Columbus, OH
http://www.millerwatson.com

Miller/Watson Architects is an architectural design firm who specialize in built environments that celebrates the human spirit. Organized to provide services within the context of a contemporary vision of the historic atelier, the design studio becomes a place of dialogue and exchange, where all sorts of knowledge (artistic, technical, humanistic…) skills and attitudes are integrated in a multi-discipline approach to project resolution. The result is an award winning architectural portfolio as unique and individual as the client’s they serve. The work includes residential and commercial architecture, interior design, historic preservation, adaptive reuse, product and graphic design.