The advent of spring has unleashed a new lease on life for the housing market. Sales are up. Inventory is down. Prices – which have been hovering at the bottom for a while – are now slowly rising. So are bank-issued mortgages.
We paid off our mortgage. Even though the credit union verifies that the balance is zero, they say it will take 14 weeks to remove the lien. This seems like a huge amount of time. Is this typical?
Willingness to undertake a home remodeling project might depend heavily upon where you live – because where you live plays a major role in how much that remodel might cost.