Author archives: Barbara Marquand

Your home equity shouldn’t be the first line of defense when the roof falls in. But it can be a useful resource to seal a temporary financial gap, and most…

Selling your house and buying another home at the same time is the ultimate feat in multitasking, and it comes with a tricky timing challenge. If you…

As interest rates fell and home prices rose last year, Carlette Duffy of Indianapolis applied to refinance her mortgage and got a gut-punch of a surpr…