Dementia and Real Estate: Caring for Dad in home. How can one reader keep her father in her home while still living independently with her family? Q: My parents own a five-acre parcel of land. My father is ill with dementia, and is living there alone. My mother assists him from a home she owns [...]
Building your retirement home. How to go about selling your current home and renting while your retirement home is built. Q: We live in Alaska. We have property in Washington that has a large shop on it and we also want to put a house next to it. We are selling our Alaska home and [...]
How to make a family mortgage work with a construction loan to ensure the complicated building process doesn’t exceed the loan amount. Q: In regard to your article "How to become a mortgage lender for your children" in the Washington Post, can a family mortgage also be accomplished on a construction loan? Can you refer [...]
The real estate outlook for 2013 continues to look muddled: While new home sales increased in 2012, the economy still struggles. Each week, pundits step forward to proffer yet another prediction about where the housing market is going. Since 2006, when the housing market began its descent into madness, all we’ve heard that the residential [...]
