Today’s housing market is tough for hopeful homebuyers. The combination of high prices and high mortgage rates means that many potential buyers find themselves priced out of the market altogether — or ...

If you look hard enough, you may see some similarities in the conditions leading up to the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis and the current 2023 real estate crisis. OK, I’ll admit that the two are not ...

On a January 2026 episode of The Dave Ramsey Show, a caller named Trina presented a plan financial advisors hear too often: using creative financing to flip land while carrying $44,000 in debt on a ...

“Creative financing on steroids” best describes some of the mortgage programs you will learn about in this column, courtesy of a mortgage expo I attended recently in Irvine. Because this expo wasn’t ...

Since March 2021, the Federal Reserve has raised rates 11 times, causing higher financing costs for everything from credit cards to home loans. And if you’re in the market for that first home, you’ve ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Real estate investor Zeona McIntyre couldn't always qualify for a mortgage. In her 20s, when she was ...