Winning a Homebuyer Bidding War Play your cards right when you really want the house. You’ve found it: The home of your dreams (cue the heavenly angel voices and “Happily Ever After” banner waving in the breeze). But reality can hit hard: Your dream home happens to occupy the same happy heart space within, oh, roughly 20 other homebuying challengers wh…

Women Taking (Home) Ownership 100 years of progress in homes and mortgages. American women may have won the right to vote in 1920 with the ratification of the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, but it took another 54 years before they could claim independent access to credit, including home loans. When you consider the changing financial influenc…