• Nearly 1 in 6 homeowners 'underwater'
• Reaffirming a mortgage
• Pick-a-payment loans turn poisonous
• Beware the $7,500 'tax credit' (it must be repaid)
• Converting home to rental filled with potential for rewards, risks
• The puzzle of home price indexes
• When to walk away from a mortgage
• Property taxes trip up naive homeowners
• Top lenders' mortgage aid procedures
• Loan-to-value ratio key to escaping PMI
• Don't fall for this (prepay) mortgage pitch
• Homeowners who just walk away
• As housing falls, short sales becoming common
• Cheap, unconventional housing alternatives
• Saving a home in bankruptcy
• Modifying a mortgage isn't easy. What you need to know
• Use DIY method of extra loan payments
• Last resort: Raid 401(k) to beat foreclosure
• Insuring your home against disaster
• Beating foreclosure: Who to call
• Why your nest is not your nest egg and Why you shouldn't think of your home as a nest egg
• 7 ways to fight property taxes
• Amount of payment going toward principal should catch your interest
• Pay extra principal in lump sum to save
• Articles for 2007 and earlier

Selecting/Buying a house

• Seller wants out of the dea
• Homebuyers turn screws on sellers
• 2008 closing costs study
• 10 home-buying tips for uneasy times
• How low can you go on a real estate bid?
• Time to buy? Contrasting views and 'Timing' market big risk for first-time buyers
• Someone's tragedy your golden opportunity (buying a foreclosure) and 10 crucial steps to 'short sale' buying
• Best sites for online home shopping
• Trulia blooms amid a housing bust, launches Google Street View integration
• Is the time right for first-time home buyers?
• Articles for 2007 and earlier

Get a mortgage

• Pick-a-payment loans turn poisonous
• What it takes to get a mortgage now (August 2008)
• Time to lock-in your mortgage rate
• VA loans offer good deals
• What to know about FHA loans
• No-down-payment mortgages gone for good?
• Modifying a mortgage isn't easy. What you need to know
• High-cost mortgages just got cheaper (good for buyers of high-priced homes) and 'Jumbo-conforming' rules could trip up homeowners
• Smaller down payment boosts flexibility
• Articles for 2007 and earlier

Refinance

• Why it's not too late to refinance
• How to tell whether now is the time to refinance
• Does it make sense to refi?
• Prime time to refinance your mortgage
• Don't refinance brand-new mortgage
• Time to refinance is now
• Articles for 2007 and earlier

Home equity loan

• These home-equity loans come with big risks
• Keeping liquid in a home-equity freeze
• Lenders cut off the home-equity tap
• Articles for 2007 and earlier

Sell a house

• Sell your home fast
• Seller wants out of the dea
• Homebuyers turn screws on sellers
• 25% of home sales result in loss
• 10 ways to NOT sell your house
• Home for sale by any means
• Can't sell your home? Consider renting
• Top 5 incentives for home sellers
• Fearing foreclosure? Consider a short sale
• Nine ways to enhance a home's curb appeal
• When money goes from house to house (1031 exchange)
• What could stop your house from selling (curb appeal)
• Solo home sellers find FSBO help online
• Figuring a home's capital gains
• Selling in a sea of foreclosures
• 8 tips for pricing your home in a buyer's market
• Not extreme home makeovers (if planning to sell in 2008)
• Creative financing might help sell your home
• Articles for 2007 and earlier

Other

• New rules rev up reverse mortgages
• Reverse mortgages not for everyone
• Reverse mortgages: Beware the come-ons
• Your home as a retirement fund (reverse mortgage) and How to size up a reverse mortgage
• Making your house work (also, Is a reverse mortgage for you? and A reverse mortgage calculator and an AAG reverse mortgage calculator)
• Is a reverse mortgage right for you?
• Reverse mortgages aren't for everyone
• The hottest mortgages? They pay you (reverse mortgages)
• Articles for 2007 and earlier