First up today will be an update on my efforts to remodel my home. My loan of choice was a HELOC - particularly since I had so many banks soliciting me via email to give me one!. However, I recently hit snag with this and today I will share that and some insights into how you can avoid the same problem and still achieve your goals. Good information to help you decide on a HELOC or REFI.

We will also discuss the recent increase in lending rates and the increase in mortgage applications.

Finally, lets talk a little about the cities where homes sold the fastest this winter.

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The headlines continue to sell us the idea that there is going to be a huge boom in millennial buyers in 2017. I continue to be skeptical about that. With all the tidbits we have discussed over the last few weeks, it is clear that there are lots of challenges to millennials. Today, I share a little more research I did to try and get a better handle on how many Millennials are having a tough time with debt. The results were interesting. Either way, Millennials will need a place to rent or to buy. As a real estate smarty pants - this is info you want to know! Of course, the next thing you would want to know is what are the hottest cities for millennials in 2017 - so we will cover that too!

We are also going to talk about an amazing story of a mother who built her own home - with only google and youtube to educate her on how!

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We are going to talk about a few things today. First, when is the right time to list your home? We will talk about how to figure that out for your specific situation, but in general, experts are saying you will get better results by listing early in 2017.

Mortgage rates have continued their 3 week dip. This is great news but we also have seen 10 year treasuries increase recently - that may spell a increase in interest rates.

Also, the headlines are telling us that housing starts are up at the end of 2016 - but is that really the good news folks seem to want to believe?

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Today we are going to run down the home improvements that are likely to give you the highest return on investment for 2017. We will examine both the midrange and high end improvements. Once we have checked that out, we will take a look at the home improvements that offer the lowest return on investment. 

Of course, as always, we will lay on some rebelbroker mojo to make this info more useful and consider how seriously to take these numbers and what there best use might be.

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It turns out that the department of education DRAMATICALLY under reported the number of college graduates that have defaulted on their student loans. This will potentially have a huge impact on what we can expect from these folks in terms of their decision to attempt to buy a home. Since this is data covering 7 years, this means that this is already out in the real world and if the trend continues, could hold buyers back for a very long time.

We will also talk about possible changes to the upcoming reduction in FHA mortgage insurance that we talked about on this show a while back.

Finally, homebuilder confidence took a bit of a dip. We will consider that and some other info that may give us a clue on what to expect in terms of new construction in 2017.

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The good folks over at homeunion.com have released their list of the SFR rental markets by their yield. This is a great number to check because they are also focusing on investors yields in the first year after the investment. 

Even more interesting are the worst performing metro areas - which might just shock some of you!

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2016 saw a big increase in the number of homes that fell out of escrow - or went back onto the market after accepting an offer. We will talk about how to prevent becoming one of those homes. We will also talk about the opportunity that is presented by going after some of the properties that have contributed to this home sale fail rate.

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While millennials have tended to take center stage in terms of who will be the biggest buying group - we need to keep in mind the baby boomers.

Baby boomers continue to be a growing segment of the buying community and in some areas they dominate the market. Knowing the features that will attract the baby boomer buyers will help you market to this growing demographic. However, do you need to do this at the expense of how much millennials will be drawn to your property? In todays show, we are going to look at how we can absolutely appeal to baby boomers without losing ANY of our appeal to other potential buyers. In fact, some of the suggestions in todays show will improve the desirability of your property across the board - if you do it right!

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The folks over at wallethub have come up with their list of ranking over 100 communities based on anticipated job growth in 2017. We will run down the top 10 and get calibrated to the prices and rents in those areas to see if any of them feel like a great place for that next - or even first - investment!

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So the mortgage insurance rates got cut again. Of course nobody seems to want to talk about what the money is for, or why the rates were raised a few years back. Why cover all those pesky facts that we seem to refuse to want to learn a lesson from. It's just nuts. In todays show we are going to dissect this move and explain why on EVERY.SINGLE.LEVEL it is stupid and good for nobody. Yeah, not even good for the folks who will want to do an FHA loan as a result. Frankly, it just makes me want to live in a cave and let the stupid just fester.

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