Less conventional paths to ownership: house hacking, co-buying, multi-family, and creative financing.
House hacking is one of the most powerful strategies available to first-time buyers, and one of the least understood. The concept is simple: you buy a…
Buying a home with someone you're not married to, whether a friend, a sibling, a parent, or a romantic partner, is more common than it used to be. Rising…
Most first-time buyers default to searching for a single-family home or a condo. It's what they picture when they think about buying. But a small and…
Rent-to-own is one of those homebuying concepts that sounds appealing in theory but gets complicated quickly in practice. It promises a path to ownership…
If you already own a home and want to buy a new one, you face a timing challenge that doesn't exist for first-time buyers: how do you buy before you've…
Self-employed borrowers can absolutely buy homes. But they face a different and often more complicated path to mortgage qualification than W-2 employees,…
When buyers are struggling to save enough for a down payment, retirement accounts often come to mind. You may have $30,000, $50,000, or more sitting in a…
Buying a home remotely, in a city or state you don't currently live in, has become more common in recent years. Remote work eliminated geographic…
