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Before you buy a house, you want to learn all you can about it — its history, its condition, any nearby nuisances, and more. After all, buying a home is expensive. And knowing all this information?

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert in the fields of ...

Question: We recently listed our Mesa home for $1.2 million with a prominent Mesa brokerage firm. Within three days, we accepted an offer for $1.1 million. When we signed the purchase contract ...

I have a question about disclosure. My sellers gave me a disclosure statement that said there were no defects in the home. After we moved in and took down some drywall we found big cracks in the ...