MONEY MATTERS
HOME BUYING 101 Upgrade your financial knowledge By Trina Rehberg Boyko
>> SO, YOU WANT TO BUY A HOME. As excited as you may be at the prospect of having a place to call your own, there’s some financial groundwork to cover before you can make it happen. Let’s break down the steps that will take you from dreaming about your future home to living in it.
DO YOUR RESEARCH First things first. You should get a basic understanding of the home-buying process and all that goes into it. “It’s important to educate yourself,” says Ainsley Cunningham, founder of MoneySmart Manitoba. “Things like, ‘What is a mortgage? What is a term?’ ”
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