I recently read your column in the Chicago Tribune, and I’d like to share my experience of selling my home on my own. I had an appraiser come to my home. He was hired by the buyer’s mortgage company.

In today’s housing market, more people are teaming up to buy property. Friends, siblings, cousins—even parents and adult children—are pooling their resources to afford a home, splitting the down ...

A skilled real estate agent can help you sell your home, likely more quickly and for more money than if you tried to do it on your own. On the other hand, most agents charge a commission based on the ...

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