Relocation & Mortgages
Sites suggested by the Reference Staff:
Virtual
Relocation includes information on rentals,
homebuilders, sales, insurance, movers, local taxes etc. Search by location.
Post your own classified ad free.
Realty
Locator includes links to homes for
sale, apartments for rent, assisted living and lots of other handy sites.
Searchable by state. Real time saver!
HUD
homepage offers information on HUD homes,
including listings of homes for sale.
Rent
Net gives you an idea about what's available
in the rental market as well as self-storage, temporary furnished suites,
and area maps.
Hugh's
Mortgage and Financial Calculators and Links offers
MAC and PC mortgage freeware/ shareware; amortization schedules (including
prepayment); calculation of effect of various prepayment options (also
prepayment vs. investment calculations); updated calculation of Canadian
mortgage payments; determines Annual Percentage Rate (APR) of loans to
facilitate comparisons...and a lot more - one of the best sites.
Mortgage-Net
offers a comparison of locked vs. floating interest rates; current and
historical interest rates, a downloadable file library containing articles,
government publications, special financing programs, reference materials
etc. in text file format; a mortgage company locator by state; and (maybe
best of all) interactive mortgage forums that allow you to post questions.
Homefair
offers a cost of living comparison for hundreds of US and International
cities; insurance premium comparisons between cities; crime indexes for
500 US cities; maximum loan qualification; rent vs. buy analysis, also
creates timelines for civilian and military moves...and more.
American
School Directory
includes vital information concerning all (106,000) US school districts:
number students; phone and fax numbers; URLs; school activities and calendars;
administrators...and a local street map.
College Net
offers a searchable data base by state including scholarship listings and applications.
VHA,
Per Diem, and COLA rates
Updated rates for military.
SITES
(Standard Installation Topic Exchange Service) offers a lot of
information including employment, services, medical and dental, and housing
(has floor plans and how to apply for on-post housing in advance of arrival.
Includes Asia/Pacific and Europe/Atlantic).
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