Where women once only aspired to the role of being a homemaker, more single women are now homebuyers. In the early 1990s, single females outpaced single males in purchasing homes. By 1999, 20 percent of total home sales in the United States were to single women, twice the number of single males and that proportion remains nearly constant, now at 22 percent per the National Association of Realtors. A 2013 Pew survey showed women are the breadwinners in at least 40 percent of households with children; about two thirds of these breadwinners are single mothers. Those single women need to be more conscious of some...
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