Category: Non-fiction

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…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1507673442 Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/3nOEgR 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…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HQTHZDM Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/bzadQz This book is written with the idea of helping the general public understand the process of purchasing real estate and improve their outcomes.  It is written from a perspective of being a loan officer and real estate agent trying to help people with precisely that issue.  While there are…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1507673442 Books2Real link: https://www.books2read.com/u/3nOEgR This book is written with the idea of helping the general public understand real estate loans.  It is written from a perspective of being a loan officer and real estate agent.  While there are lessons of mindset and how to think that might assist a beginning loan officer or…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HQTHZDM Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/bzadQz What is Real Estate? Many people think they are buying a house when they buy real estate.  In fact, what you are doing is buying a fee, or piece of land, and the house or other structure comes along because it is appurtenant to the land.  There’s a legal…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1507673442 Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/3nOEgR Whipping your credit report into shape is part of preparation, but is material for its own chapter.  Let’s start with the big questions, then start explaining. First of all, what is a credit score? A FICO score is nothing more or less than a prediction of the likelihood of…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HQTHZDM Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/bzadQz This book is written with the idea of helping the general public understand the process of purchasing real estate and improve their outcomes.  It is written from a perspective of being a loan officer and real estate agent trying to help people with precisely that issue.  While there are…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1507673442 Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/3nOEgR This book is written with the idea of helping the general public understand real estate loans.  It is written from a perspective of being a loan officer and real estate agent.  While there are lessons of mindset and how to think that might assist a beginning loan officer or…

I sometimes write non-fiction, too. Sometimes, I even talk about it here. Like right now. The first thing to understand is that the entire machine of loans is completely impersonal. I don’t mean that you’re necessarily just one more cog in the machine to your loan officer, as I can’t remember encountering a loan officer…