The Costs of Not Selling Your Home With a Real Estate Agent

By Team Hochberg | August 11, 2017

We live in the DIY time where everyone thinks they can do anything they can find on youtube. As a result, many people are leaving money on the table when they go to sell their home without a real estate agent. You certainly CAN sell your home without a realtor, but why would you when…

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Self Employed: How To Get A Mortgage and Keep Doing What You Love

By Team Hochberg | August 11, 2017

People who are self employed aren’t doing it because it makes their life easier. Being self employed means more paperwork, extra steps, long hours, but it shouldn’t mean that you can’t get a mortgage. If you’re self employed, most of the time I’ll need a few extra bits of paperwork to get a mortgage, but…

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Credit Problems Make Your Entire Life More Expensive

By Team Hochberg | August 11, 2017

If you have credit challenges, it’s going to cost you in many areas of your life. That’s why it’s so frustrating when I give people a plan to enhance their credit, which I can do for anyone that calls me for free, and they don’t follow it. It’s their money, and ultimately all I can…

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Reverse Mortgage Loan Scam: Another Con Artist Takes Advantage of the Elderly

By Team Hochberg | August 11, 2017

About once a week I see a story about some con artist who is scamming people out of money under the umbrella of a reverse mortgage, and this week I found this story. So let me say, for the 100th time. These stories have NOTHING to do with Reverse Mortgage Loans. They have EVERYTHING to…

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How Much Does It Cost to Buy A Home?

By Team Hochberg | August 11, 2017

Whenever people call 855-563-2843 to buy a home, they almost always ask me how much it’ll cost to buy a home. The answer is always the same… It depends.   How much do you have to put down? It doesn’t have to be 20%! Are you interested in pursuing many of the grants and down…

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Everything You Need to Know About Your Credit Score

By Team Hochberg | August 10, 2017

You hear from my credit enhancement expert Gary Novel every single Saturday on my radio show on WLS. Gary offers a tip about your credit every time he’s on and those tips are vital information for consumers who are credit challenged. No matter where your credit score is, my team can give you a plan…

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The Housing Crash: Not Every Community Has Recovered

By Team Hochberg | August 10, 2017

I came across this article from the Chicago Tribune that I wanted to share with you. It provides data and insight to something you likely are unaware of. While most of the country has recovered, some communities are still dealing with the fallout of the housing fiasco that began to show in 2007. In the…

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