Credit Score FAQ, Part 2: How are Credit Scores Determined?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 02/04/2013
- Finance
What Factors Are Used to Calculate a Credit Score? To be right up front: the most important factor in determining a credit score is whether past or present credit has been or is being paid on-time. Late payment is the most common reason ...
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Credit Score FAQ, Part 1: What is a Credit Score?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 02/01/2013
- Finance
It’s hard to turn on the TV or log on to the web without seeing an ad about getting – and improving – your credit score. You know that three-digit number is all-important … but do you really know what it is and where it comes from? In the ...
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How Does Real Estate Valuation Work?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 01/30/2013
- Real Estate
The best approach to valuing real estate is to hire a real estate appraiser. Appraisers have a method to determine the best and closest fair market value of real estate property. One of their three approaches will be the right one for your ...
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How to Create a Chain of Title
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 01/25/2013
- Real Estate
The chain of title plays a significant role in the purchase and sale of real estate. A title company is responsible for tracing ownership and changes that establish a clean title for the buyer. Often, the trail could lead back to a ...
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Should You Buy or Rent a House? Pros & Cons
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 01/21/2013
- Real Estate
Should you buy a home? Or should you rent? The answer is….it depends. You need more than just a basic comparison between monthly mortgage and monthly rent to show you which would be best financially for you. Plus there are other reasons ...
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Who Owns the Land you Live on?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 01/16/2013
- Oil and Gas
The land we live on has been around a long time, so it’s only natural that various parcels of this land may have changed ownership several times. This ownership gets complicated when you consider that while one person or entity may own the ...
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What do Private Investigators Really Do?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 01/11/2013
- Legal
From Sherlock Holmes to Magnum, P.I, private investigators have long been a pop culture staple, and with good reason – few fictional characters this side of James Bond enjoy the mystery and intrigue these famous sleuths experience day in ...
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4 Appraisal Updates: The Changing Landscape of the Appraisal Industry
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 01/09/2013
- Real Estate
Would-be homeowners are more than familiar with the varied costs associated with the home-buying process. Between credit reports, document preparation, mortgage loans, homeowner’s and title insurance policies and land surveying, there are ...
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