10 Real Estate Tools

March 25, 2009 by Emma  
Filed under Finances and Money

The Real Estate market may not have rebounded yet, but the end is surely in sight. Maybe now is the time for you and your family to take the plunge and move from renters to owners. Using these top 10 tools recommended by LifeHacker.com you can learn some great tips on making the big move.

Type “buy,” “rent,” and “calculator” into Google, and you’ll get a fair number of similar tools to do the math. Search site HotPads, however, puts that decision in perspective by having you figure out what you can afford in a sidebar calculator, than filtering search results to show just those spots—color-coded for rental or purchase—that you can swing. In other words, it makes a two-step, copy-and-paste procedure into a streamlined search. After all, buying isn’t always better than renting.