Home Ownership

Saving Money on Home Renovations

April 26, 2012

It’s Springtime DINKS and that means very soon many of us will become overwhelmed with the need to buy a new home, upgrade our current home, or redecorate a room in our home.  Spring Fever is starting and it’s time for new beginnings. Today’s post is inspired by many hours of watching the TV show [...]

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Is everything better in the suburbs?

April 12, 2012

Good Morning DINKS.  My boyfriend Nick and I are a city couple. We currently live on the 21st floor of a high rise building in the downtown core of our city.  Since Nick and I are both from out of town when we first moved here 11 years ago we decided that living downtown would [...]

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Is Your House a Home or an Investment?

February 13, 2012

Good Morning DINKS.  As winter is winding down and spring is approaching a lot of clients are coming into the bank for their mortgage pre approvals.  Clients want to guarantee their potential mortgage rate for the next 3 months while they search for their dream home, or at least while they search for their next [...]

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Weekly Roundup: Home Renovations and DIY Projects

September 9, 2011

Happy Friday Everyone.  Today we are discussing home renovations.  We recently explored the world of real estate investing and flipping home in a DINKS Reality post called “Flip This House” Are any of our DINKS readers House Flippers? Whether you are flipping houses for a profit or you are just trying to spruce up your [...]

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DINKS Reality: Flip This House

May 17, 2011

The television channel A & E has a show called Flip This House which chronicles the experience of flipping houses for a profit. There are four main families/couples on the television show Flip This House.  Armando is the cheap businessman from Texas, Brian and Peter are best friends from Atlanta, Than and Paul are best [...]

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Realtors Should Rent

April 19, 2010

Did that get some attention? I hope so. The conclusion that realtors should rent comes directly out of urban economics, an understudied and ignored branch of modern economics. But while it is a cute fact you’d expect to see in Freakonomics- it wasn’t there. I wanted to take some time to explain this counterintuitive fact, [...]

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Interest Rates Soar

April 15, 2010

As our country seeks financial progression, higher interest rates are inevitable. In case you weren’t aware, we’re already experiencing some drastic increases. According to mortgage company, Freddie Mac, the fixed average mortgage rate is now 5.21 percent… after being 5.08 percent last week! So if you’re looking into buying a place, it might make sense [...]

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