Home Mortgage

The key to being a good landlord — and making more money on your rentals — is to have a good working relationship with your tenants. Here’s how to balance taking care of your property with being respectful of your tenants and their personal space.

Find out if a condo's contents should be covered by the company insuring what's outside.

More and more landlords are requiring their tenants to have renters insurance.

If you're disabled and your landlord treats you unfairly, you can file a complaint.

If you are serious about buying a vacation home, learn first about these financing issues.

Before you decide to invest in real estate, make sure you know the true cost of owning and maintaining a rental property.

It's both a lease to rent a home and a deal to buy it, rolled into a single document, so it has more moving parts and quirks than either document individually. In other words, study up and get expert help

If you find yourself in a situation where you feel you need to break your lease, remember that it can be an expensive and difficult process. That said, sometimes it’s worth it. Here are the two main scenarios and how to deal with them.

Your typical apartment lacks instant-gratification niceties, but most come with at least one or two alluring perks of their own. Other perks, for various reasons, are more discreet: You have to ask for them.

Before moving into a cheaper house, there are some things you can do to cut that big mortgage obligation.

As of October 1, the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure Rule (TRID) requires lenders to provide consumers with more detailed rate and fee information, and to give them more time to review it before closing.

Paying for college? A refi, home equity loan and financial aid are among your options.

The answer to the common question, "does a mortgage refinance make sense?" largely depends on your goals for your new mortgage and how long you plan to stay in your home.

Refinancing can be a great way to help save you money, but it’s important to consider the costs and benefits of refinancing before you make such a large decision.

A professor says many forces should help keep mortgage rates in check next year.

If you have a vacation home or investment property with an older, expensive mortgage, consider a refinance so you can take advantage of historically low mortgage rates.

A recasting of a home equity line of credit or HELOC isn’t something that should sneak up on you, but it does.

Refinancing a mortgage might make sense if you want to shed PMI payments.

Refinancing your credit card or student loan debt can be a wise move -- unless one of these downsides sours the deal.

Billions of dollars in home equity lines of credit are coming due, and it’s creating anxiety in the marketplace.