I bought my first home decades ago using my no-down GI Bill when I was a beginning reporter for the Associated Press – wondering how in the world I was going to come up with the $311 a month for a two-bedroom, one bath bungalow that’s close to 900 square feet. Fortunately, small homes appreciate…
The only ways to improve that is for builders to put up more homes or the investors to begin selling them.
Renters who want to be homeowners consider the biggest challenge to grabbing that rung on the American Dream ladder is coming up with the money for the down payment. That renters down payment challenge assessment from the Zillow Aspirations Report shows that 70 percent of respondents cited coming up with the down payment more difficult…
Are investors hurting first time buyers? Someone in my tribe just sold the family home and had to find a place to rent in Las Vegas — like NOW. I helped find that narrow list of houses that fit all the requirements — pets, storage, price, location — and it was frustrating ot only having…
Las Vegas is a fairly safe place as metro areas go, but it’s worth shoring up security and safety at home to lower the likelihood of losing life or property to bad guys. Whether you buy or rent a house in Las Vegas, consider at least some of these options for protecting your house from…
Las Vegas is a relatively small city for a metro area as well known as it is internationally, both in population (slightly above 2 million) and land mass. An advantage of that, compared to bigger, older or denser areas like Phoenix or Los Angeles, is that it’s relatively easy to get around. That means your…
Owning your own home as long been – and still is — the American dream. It offers stability, asset appreciation and a feeling of familial comfort. It’s your nest to do with as you like. But it’s not for everyone, and it’s not for many people at certain points in their lives. Sometimes there are…
By Hal DeKeyser Southern Nevada more and more is becoming a place where out-of-state businesses want to relocate and operate, and the Las Vegas commercial leasing in the second quarter of this year is an indication of that, according to the Palmeri – Wainwright tenant representative team of Cushman & Wakefield/Commerce’s Las Vegas office. That’s…
If you’re 62 or older and own a home here, you may be eligible for a reverse mortgage in Las Vegas as a way to add monthly income to your household. But it isn’t free, and you should know what you’re getting into: * A reverse mortgage, like its name, is the opposite of a…
By Hal DeKeyser Walk in more than half the new model homes for sale in Las Vegas these days and you’ll more and more find a feature that didn’t exist in houses in the Southwest a decade ago: Drop zones. If you grew up in the North or Midwest you may well have had what…