For those looking to buy a new home in Illinois, price is nearly always a top consideration. Unfortunately, the desire to find a nice but affordable home can leave buyers vulnerable to real estate scams. Some scams have plagued property buyers for at least a century,...
If you’re a homeowner, foreclosure is certainly something you’d rather not consider. It could mean losing your home as the lender forecloses and then re-sells it to someone else. You don’t get to recoup the money that you’ve been paying on that mortgage loan...
Is a little white lie on your mortgage application really a big deal? Back in the free-wheeling heyday before the mortgage crisis of 2007-2008, a lot of less-than-scrupulous mortgage brokers may have turned a blind eye to application fraud (or even encouraged it), but...
