Foreclosure, Your Future, and How Big Easy Buyers Can Help Whether a foreclosed home was abandoned or voluntarily deeded back to the lender, the toll foreclosure takes on a homeowner’s life is devastating on many levels. Credit Killer Of the many adverse consequences...

The Realtor Route Versus Selling Your New Orleans Home to Big Easy Buyers Because selling a home seems extremely complicated, many people believe that the only way to proceed is with the help of a realtor. But there are many ways to sell a home, with or without a real...

Where to Find Help If You’re a Louisiana Homeowner Facing Foreclosure Few people expect foreclosure—or plan for it. Americans are typically proud of owning their own home, and the prospect of losing it through foreclosure may evoke feelings of fear and shame. The...

How Would a Crackdown on Illegal Immigration Affect New Orleans Homeownership? New Orleans is a city of immigrants. The French intended the land at a sharp bend of the Mississippi River to be an important colonial city when Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville founded...

But Are They Out of the Woods? Homeowners in the New Orleans area are doing better at making their mortgage payments, New Orleans CityBusiness reports. Citing statistics from property information firm CoreLogic, CityBusiness notes that the percentage of home loans...

Fewer HomeOwners, More Renters—for Now The homeownership rate in New Orleans has been on a fairly steady decline since 2005, when it reached a 30-year peak of 71.2 percent, to 2016, when it dropped to 59.4 percent, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures. The trend in...

How to Downsize Your Financial Burden Until You’re Ready to Own a Home Again Having trouble keeping up with your mortgage payments? Perhaps you should take a break from owning a home and rent for a while instead. Especially if you plan to buy another home in a few...

Even Free Homes Have Expenses Inheriting property might seem to be a good thing, but when you inherit a home you should get ready to make some important financial decisions that you might not have anticipated. The property you inherited might come with debt and bills...

Stopping a Foreclosure Before it Starts May be Worth the Effort Nothing destroys credit, humiliates a family, and takes away a homeowner's dignity quite the way a foreclosure does. If you have missed three or more mortgage payments and you think foreclosure is on the...