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If you find yourself checking real estate listings during your free time, even though you’re perfectly content in your present home, you probably have the itch to invest in real estate. While full-time and retired workers rent homes to tenants as a part-time investment, others rent out a hefty number of homes as a full-time business. With whichever road you decide to take, the process does not happen overnight. Here are some tips to read up on before beginning a possibly life-changing investment. (…more…)

Motivated sellers know that putting time and energy into preparing a home to sell can more than pay off in the end. Getting things clean, organized and up-to-date is all part of the process. But what many sellers may not know is how important the specifics of these changes can be.

How can you know what updates to make? When you replace things-from carpeting to kitchen appliances-should you go with top-of-the-line or more moderately priced?

The most important thing to remember is to make decorating decisions that emphasize your house, not your style. (…more…)

One way Buy Owner helps you maximize your home’s marketability is through technology, from our high-traffic Website and talking yard signs to professionally created virtual tours: 360-degree online showcases of your home, complete with recorded audio descriptions. A recent article by June Fletcher of The Wall Street Journal draws attention to the importance of technology in home sales and [...]

 At Buy Owner, our mission is making home ownership more affordable for you. By cutting out commissions and giving you control of your home sale, we reduce costs and save you money! And Buy Owner savings aren’t just for sellers! When you’re buying a new home, we want to help you make the process as [...]

 With wedding season coming to an end, many newly wedded couples are finding themselves with the question of where to live next. Whether they are coming from two separate homes or from a shared apartment, most couples want to make a significant improvement to correspond with the important change they just made in their lives. [...]

It often seems that the general thought on home improvements is, “Don’t pay someone for something you can do yourself.” In some cases this may be true. However, there are certain home improvement projects that should, contrary to popular belief, be left up the professionals. Home improvement projects typically fall into one of these categories: [...]