Tag Archives: first time home buyer

Friends Don’t Let Friends Use Zillow, Trulia and Yahoo Real Estate to Find Homes for Sale

If you live in MN and you want to use one of these sites to find your next home, you should know that approximately 20% of the homes for sale are not being shown to you.  Because these sites are riddled with data inaccuracies, Edina Realty decided to pull their listings from these third party [...]

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First Time Home Buyers, Now that You’ve Opened “The Box”

As a First Time Home Buyer it is like opening up a new IPad you just received from Santa.  You are excited to open the box, fire it up, but once it is out of the box you don’t even know what you don’t know about your new IPad.  The same generally apply’s to First [...]

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FHA Loan Limits going DOWN in the Mpls/St Paul metro on October 1st!!!

Well… as we all know our economy is looking SO GOOD that it may make lots of sense to LOWER the current FHA loan limits in less than a month right? Here in the Mpls/St.Paul MSA borrowers purchasing power with FHA loans is being reduced by almost $50,000 very soon. The loan limit for MOST [...]

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Should I Stay or Should I Go Now?

Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? The million dollar question, should I stay, and continue renting, or should I go, and become a homeowner?    Sometimes, I think first time homebuyers are looking at this question as a million dollar question, and really, it is not. Are we at the bottom of the declining [...]

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