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A Quick Guide to Stop Renting & Buy Your Own Home
If your goal for 2025 is to stop renting & buy your own home, you've probably found yourself wondering when to start your home search so you aren't stuck paying rent & a mortgage at the same time.
And the classic answer to this question is exactly what you might expect: it depends.
As a very basic guideline, we recommend that you start your search 4 to 6 months before your lease ends or 2 to 3 months before you need to renew your lease. This should take some pressure off you and make the process a little less stressful.
But there are other things to consider as well, such as:
- What do your lease terms say about ending your lease early or staying longer? Do you have the option to renew your lease as a month-to-month renter if you don't close on a house before your lease ends?
- Are you prequalified with a local lender? It's important to remember that while interest rates may be higher than you would prefer, they are actually i...
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What is New Leaf Team Listening To?
Rives's Picks:
99% Invisible About all the thought that goes into the things we don't think about — the unnoticed architecture and design that shape our world.
Mobituaries Covers Mo Rocca's favorite dearly departed people and things.
Good Life Project Shares inspirational, intimate and disarmingly-unfiltered conversations about living a fully-engaged, fiercely-connected and purpose-drenched life.
Kelly's Picks:
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Open for Business: Safety Protocols In Place
At Montague Miller & Co we want to express our gratitude to all of our friends and clients for putting your trust in our agents and company as we continue to focus on helping you realize your real estate goals. While serving central Virginia for over seven decades, we have weathered a few challenges although the Covid pandemic has been most unique. We have been blessed over the last 16 months to not only have survived, but to have thrived. We have you, our loyal friends and clients to thank. While the greatest challenges of the pandemic may be behind us, the repercussions and effects on the market will likely be felt for some time to come.
At Montague Miller our primary concern is to...
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2020 CAAR Professional Honor Society
Congratulations to John and Rives on their induction into the 2020 class of the CAAR Professional Honor Society!
From the Charlottesville Area Association of REALTORS
CAAR announced the induction of 50 REALTORS® into the 2020 class of the CAAR Professional Honor Society during a virtual General Membership Meeting on Thursday, March 11th.
This prestigious accolade has been a long-standing award program at the state level and was instituted by CAAR in 1996 to recognize standards of industry excellence. A total of 194 different REALTORS® have reached this pinnacle achievement in the local program's history. The 2020 class marks the 25th year for si...
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COVID-19 Precautions
Like many of you in Charlottesville, we are carefully monitoring the Coronavirus situation and making decisions to keep our team and our friends and clients safe.
For our team, we have enacted a stay home policy for all team members who feel ill or have traveled widely recently. Our office has increased their level of cleaning & sanitizing office space. And we are personally following recommended safety precautions from the CDC & Health Department which includes not shaking hands and practicing social distancing measures such as not driving clients to showings in our personal vehicles.
If you are selling your home and have significant concerns about exposure to the virus, please let us know we can limit or stop showings. If you are sick yourself, please let us know so we can pause showings & p...
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