I get where you’re coming from, but I’d actually push back a bit on the “just push and they’ll drop it” idea. Sometimes, those fees really are baked i...

Totally normal to feel overwhelmed—those loan docs are a maze. I remember my first closing; “processing fee” and “document prep” both showed up, but n...

This really resonates. When we bought our fixer-upper, I kept second-guessing whether we should've gone for something move-in ready. We spent months r...