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  The backdoor way to get a dirt-cheap mortgage rate on your next home

  Business Insider - By James Rodriguez

  Anthony Volpe was late to the party, and he knew it. It was summer 2024, and Volpe, a semiretired pharmacist and college professor, was looking to buy a house near Orlando. Home prices had skyrocketed during the pandemic, but the frenzy had come with a silver lining: a steep drop in mortgage rates. …

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  I'm Canadian, and my husband is American. We chose to live in Canada even though salaries are often lower.

  Business Insider - By Alcynna Lloyd

  This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Isheeta Borkar, a 33-year-old working in human resources and travel blogger living in Vancouver. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.​ My husband and I are originally from India, but moved separately to the US and Canada over …

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  17 hours ago

  Why 'rent by the room' earns the most cash flow for a financially independent couple among 4 rental strategies

  Business Insider - By Kathleen Elkins

  Jeff White and Suleyka Bolaños have been adding one rental property to their portfolio a year since 2017. The Denver-based couple also hasn't paid for their own housing since 2017. They've "house hacked" each property they've acquired — meaning, they've moved into a portion of the home and rented …

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  A couple started out renting a bedroom on Airbnb to pay the mortgage. Now their cabin village makes over $30,000 a month.

  Business Insider - By Jordan Pandy

  When Darrel and Patrice Maxam moved from Connecticut to Georgia, they bought a 1956 bungalow for $249,400. Because they'd used most of their money to buy the home, they struggled to afford the $1,400 monthly mortgage payments. "When we moved to Atlanta, we were really broke," Darrel Maxam told …

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  Take a look inside a 45-room, 14,000-square-foot historic mansion once owned by the inventor of Morse code

  Business Insider - By Talia Lakritz

  When Samuel F. B. Morse wasn't creating Morse code, inventing the telegraph, or painting portraits, he was relaxing on the grounds of his Locust Grove Estate in upstate New York. Located about 80 miles outside New York City in Poughkeepsie, Locust Grove was built in 1852 on a bluff with views of the …

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  9 top safe-haven states where jobs and home values are shielded from the trade war fallout

  Business Insider - By Christine Ji

  As President Donald Trump's trade war continues, consumers are worried about higher prices and potential layoffs, while businesses are sweating over higher import costs and waning foreign demand for their products. They are dynamics that economists say could throw the US into recession. They're also …