Closing costs are a mystery to many home buyers, who understandably might not know how much they’ll pay, why they’ll pay that amount and what it’s really for when they buy a home.
A 2015 survey by ClosingCorp, a real estate closing data company, found that more than one-third of people who planned to buy a home were either not very or not at all aware of closing costs.
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