The paramagnetic phase of the extended attractive Hubbard model on the cubic lattice is studied within the spin rotation invariant Kotliar-Ruckenstein slave boson representation at zero temperature. It is obtained that the quasiparticle residue of the Fermi liquid phase vanishes for all densities at an interaction strength slightly smaller than [Formula: see text] that signals the Brinkman–Rice transition, and that it weakly depends on density. While for vanishing non-local interaction parameters, homogeneous static charge instabilities are found in a rather narrow window centered around quarter filling and [Formula: see text], increasing them to [Formula: see text] results into a severe narrowing of this window. On the contrary, when all interaction parameters are attractive, for example for [Formula: see text], a large parameter range in which homogeneous static charge instabilities is found. Yet, this systematically happens inside the Fermi liquid phase.