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Common VA Loan Questions
Common VA Loan Misconceptions We sit down with Ben Williams from Benchmark Mortgage to go over some additional common questions involved in VA Loans.
Land Contract FAQs – What do I need to know about Land Contracts?
Land Contract FAQs - What do I need to know about Land Contracts? What is a Land Contract? An agreement between a buyer (vendee) and seller (vendor) that states that a buyer is purchasing property, but will not receive the legal title until the debt is paid. The land contract must be in [...]
Tips for more secure Video Conferencing and working from home
Tips for more secure Video Conferencing and working from home. Video conferencing has increased in popularity to both simulate the familiar office experience, as well as educate our children while remaining safe from COVID-19. This new “virtual office” comes with many benefits from being able to communicate across the country and collaborate with others [...]
Real Estate Back To Work
Real Estate Closings & COVID 19 Governor Whitmer has issued Executive Order No. 2020-70. This order allows Real Estate professionals to begin working after the initial Stay At Home order. Specifically, under paragraph 10, section "h" it states the following... "Effective at 12:01 am on May 7, 2020, workers in the real-estate industry, [...]
COVID Update – use of electronic signatures and remote notarization
EXECUTIVE ORDER No. 2020-41 LANSING, Mich. -- Today, Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed Executive Order 2020-41, which will protect the health and safety of Michiganders by reducing unnecessary in-person contact, through the use of electronic signatures, remote notarizations, remote witness attestations and acknowledgments, and remote visitations. Executive Order 2020-41 is effective immediately and continues through May 6, 2020 at 11:59 pm. "It [...]
What are all these deeds?
The 31 Flavors of Title Deeds The transfer of property can be done in many ways, with many different documents. Anytime property is transferred the document used must be recorded at the local Register of Deeds office. Below we will go over some of the more common documents; sometimes called instruments. Warranty Deed [...]
Know when to sell your home
Did you know that there are certain days of the year that rank high in regard to selling a home? Some may believe that putting a home on the market any time of the year is a great idea. What if we had data that highlight the best days of the year to sell [...]
NAR’s Top-Level Domains Officially Released
The newest trend in Real Estate today is the .Realtor and .RealEstate Top-Level Domains. You may by wondering what a Top-Level Domain is, but I can assure you it’s not as complicated of a topic as it sounds. I’m sure you are used to seeing “.com” attached to the end of a website as with [...]
The 25 Most Popular Passwords of 2017
Every year, SplashData compiles a list of the most popular passwords based on millions of stolen logins made public in the last year. You can probably guess the top two choices: Based on more than five million leaked passwords, they are “123456” and “password.” There are also some new additions this year, including “starwars,” [...]