Michele Lerner is an award-winning freelance journalist with more than three decades of experience writing about every aspect of real estate from affordable to luxury housing, financing and refinancing, first-time buying and investing, as well as business and personal finance. Her work appears in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Urban Land Magazine, AARP, Newsweek, Washingtonian magazine, Mansion Global, Green Builder Magazine, PRO Builder Magazine and more. She has written two books about homebuying and writes articles for multiple Realtor associations about issues important to members.