Thierry Roche - All Northern Virginia Homes For Sale
With over 25 years in real estate, Thierry shares his unique real estate strategies and techniques for saving both buyers and sellers huge amounts of money.
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2010
Your choice of lender has a big impact on your Fairfax VA home’s mortgage interest rate. You can either go for mortgage bankers or mortgage brokers. And though they both advocate having the best program and products for you, which should you pick? As an insider, mortgage bankers are my preferenc...
10/29/2010
Getting the best interest rate on your Fairfax VA home mortgage can save you almost $100 to $300 off of your monthly payments. Interest rates are basically determined by two factors: credit score and choice of lender. Here’s how to improve your credit score and thereby get you a better interest r...
10/29/2010
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After a distressed Fairfax VA home has gone through short sales or foreclosure auction but still remains unsold, the bank will take it back themselves and foreclose it. It will then become an REO sale; REO meaning Real Estate Owned, or in other words, bank-owned properties. The bank assigns real ...
10/29/2010
Three Strategies to Get the Best Deals on Foreclosed Fairfax VA Homes (part 2): Foreclosure Auctions
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After Fairfax short sales, the second strategy involves foreclosure auction. This happens when the bank itself takes the Fairfax foreclosure back from the seller. This might be the most hazardous time to buy Fairfax VA homes for sale since you won’t be allowed to see or inspect the property at th...
10/29/2010
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Talking about foreclosure can fill up an entire book by itself. However, there are three types of foreclosures you should be aware of when buying this kind of Fairfax VA homes for sale. The first is called a short sale. Fairfax short sales occur when the property seller is still residing in the h...
10/29/2010
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In buying Fairfax VA homes for sale, another opportunity to save on closing costs is in the home and land survey recertification. The lender requires all buyers of Fairfax VA homes to get a survey which can run from about a couple hundred dollars to as much as a couple thousand dollars. Some surv...
10/29/2010
Most people buying Fairfax VA homes for sale know about the down payment required for the purchase. However, there are some who are unaware of the additional closing costs involved, which can amount to as much as 3% to 4% of the sales price, making it a considerable expense. There are 2 good ways...
10/29/2010
In Part One, we showed that a standard 30 year mortgage of $200,000 at 6.5% amortized for Fairfax VA homes would mean paying $255,090 in interest, plus another $200,000 which is the original principal amount that you borrowed. In order to save thousands of dollars, you can actually pre-pay small ...
10/29/2010
For those buying Fairfax VA homes for sale, this mortgage strategy will save you tens of thousands of dollars on your mortgage, build your net worth and equity faster, and pay off Fairfax VA homes in half the time. There are a handful of ways to do this, but there’s only one right way. This littl...
10/29/2010
If you're in the market for Fairfax VA homes for sale, don't let national real estate market news weigh heavily in your decisions. Especially now that the media has been trumpeting about the drop in home values nationwide, it's really not as relevant as you might think, since real estate trends a...
10/26/2010
