When I bought my first home, before I was a real estate professional, I went looking for a resource that would enable me to learn what I needed to know to be an informed layperson – not a professional, but someone who knew the basics, the procedures and what they were for, and the common recurring issues – as well as an appropriate menu of common responses
There was a Consumer Reports book that talked about a few of the absolute basics, but that was it. I was already a math geek, and my dad was a small contractor so I grew up dealing with property defects and how to fix them. But it wasn’t until I earned my real estate license and saw how badly people are abused because of their ignorance that I saw how bad the need for such books was.
This book and its companion are intended to allow people to avoid the worst of those traps. This book covers the actual shopping and purchase of a property, the companion covers the financial side. It will not turn you into a professional yourself, but it will enable you to cut through the fast talk, understand what qualifies you for a mortgage on a personal residence, and how to proceed from beginning to the end you want – a good loan on a property you are happy to own and live in.
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