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Pittsburgh Home Buyers Use The First Time Home Buyers Tax Credit

Pittsburgh Home Buyers Use The First Time Home Buyers Tax Credit

By jimdolanch on April 1st, 2010

Pittsburgh home buyers-if you are searching the Pittsburgh MLS for your dream home right now, you will want to try to find it before the end of April 2010, so you can take advantage of the First Time Home Buyers Tax Credit. The tax credit has already been extended twice, and so far I have [...]


Buying Pittsburgh Real Estate

Buying Pittsburgh Real Estate

By jimdolanch on February 11th, 2010

When you start the journey to Pittsburgh, PA home ownership, you have many options and choices to make-and sometimes it can be hard to tell which decisions are the best for you, your finances and your situation.
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First off, when you start browsing the Pittsburgh MLS home search through www.jimdolanch.com, you have the [...]


Buying Pittsburgh Real Estate

Buying Pittsburgh Real Estate

By jimdolanch on January 4th, 2010

Buying Pittsburgh Real Estate can be a valuable investment.  Unless you are living somewhere for free, you are paying rent-which we all know is just money down the drain-so if you are able to be approved for a mortgage, then the smartest thing you can do is put that money towards home ownership.
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Peters Township-Cheaper to Buy than to Rent

Peters Township-Cheaper to Buy than to Rent

By jimdolanch on October 3rd, 2009

In Peters Township, PA tt is cheaper to buy a home than to rent one! Learn how to start the journey to home ownership from expert Peters Township real estate agent, Jim Dolanch.


Peters Township Short Sales

By jimdolanch on August 3rd, 2009

Peters Township Real Estate has seen the same slump a lot of the nation is facing right now; however, we are starting to come out of that slump, which is great news for Pittsburgh home buyers and sellers! Even with with the good news, there is a group that still needs some assistance and [...]

Mortgage Rates Going Lower

By jimdolanch on March 19th, 2009

“Mortgage rates expected to slide with Fed’s new moves” was the headline of the L.A. Times late in the afternoon on March 18th. Then, this morning on Good Morning America, the possibility of interest rates as low as 4% were discussed. Finally, Bloomberg reported today that U.S. mortgage rates may fall to the lowest since [...]

What’s Up With The Mortgage Industry?

By jimdolanch on October 16th, 2007

For a Peters Township home buyers or sellers, every day we hear and read about mortgage companies closing their doors and certain mortgage products being eliminated. If you’re a home buyer, reading all these negative news reports is reason enough to make you concerned. Can a home buyer secure a mortgage is the question we [...]