How To Avoid Snafus When Closing Your Mortgage

Closing on a home sale and mortgage can be needlessly complicated. There are any number of ways a lender can slip in charges that will cost you dearly. Here are a few ways to avoid problems, thanks to some useful tips from the "Squared Away Blog" from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College (and a few of my own): * Read the important stuff. You need to know what you agreed to buy in precise language. That means a legal description of the property and everything connected with it. I ...