Online Home Resources Help Home Buyers Feel At Home (NAPSA)—Home-sweet-home. With today’s low interest rates, now’s a sweet time to find out about buying, refinancing, or remodeling a home. Online resources offer solid sources of information that home buyers and homeowners can use to make their dreams of homeownership cometrue. In partnership with Fannie Mae, Cendant Mortgage and Homeside Lending, BET.com recently re-launched its home buying and home ownership channel, dedicated to encouraging home ownership within the AfricanAmerican community. BET.com’s “Owning a Home” channel provides regularly updated content, critical information, tools, such as calculators, and the ability to apply for a mortgagefor first-time homebuyers, as well as homeowners who want to refinance or remodel their current home. Recently redesigned to make it even more helpful and easier to use, the site offers several useful sections: * Buy. This section has useful information on the home buying process, including how to get started, what documents you will need, understanding credit, answers to frequently asked questions, calculators to help you figure out what you can afford, the likelihood of being approved and the true cost of a mortgage. Owning a home is the great American dream and new online resources maybeableto help. * Refinance. Information and tools for homeowners who want to refinance their existing mortgage, whetherit be to lower their interest rate, borrow additional funds for home improvements, education bills, or switch from one loan type to another. * Remodel. Learn ways to increase the value of your home by remodeling, including the variables to consider when undertaking a remodeling project, as well as tools to help with home improvement planning andprojects. * Get a loan. Here consumers can obtain home financing from Cendant Mortgage or HomeSide Lending to buy a homeor refinance or remodel their current home. The warm weather months can be a great time to look for a home or make the one you already have feel more like home. For tips and more information, visit the site at http://owningahome.bet.com.
