Since the real estate market has long since cooled off, you’ll more likely to find your competitive home sellers offering a seller’s warranty. But what exactly is a seller’s warranty, and how can it help?
In short, a seller’s warranty provides added assurance that any repairs to major appliances, plumbing, and other home systems will be covered by the seller within a specified time period after the home is purchased, excluding a typical deductible of $50-60. Seller’s warranties are always offered by builders of new …

Home Warranty Lifesavers
You’re away on vacation, enjoying the peace and quiet. Unknown to you, the compressor motor on your refrigerator at home suddenly burns out. Within hours everything in your refrigerator begins spoiling. Everything in your freezer melts. The refrigerator starts leaking a gooey mess all over the floor. You come home two weeks later to a horrible stench that can only be described as…indescribable. At least you have insurance that will pay for a new refrigerator…or do you?
If an appliance breaks down – no matter how expensive that appliance …

This time last year I was in the process of purchasing a home after years of being “a renter.” My landlord had just given me a friendly ultimatum: Buy the house we were currently living or move by the end of May so he could sell it. I didn’t want to inherit all the costly repairs I knew we’d have to face if we stayed there, so we looked for a home we could call our own that was in better shape than the one …