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Nolo’s Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home
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Nolo's Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home
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Get the right house at the right price with insider tips and advice from the experts!
Say goodbye to landlords and laundromats with Nolo's Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home. This timely title will help you find the right place to live and invest in -- and even have fun doing it.
Filled with interesting facts, real-life stories and common pitfalls to avoid, this book provides everything you need to select the right house, the right mortgage, the right agent, the right inspections -- and much more. Get the inside scoop on:
Read through the real-world experiences of over 20 first-time homebuyers, as well as valuable insights from a team of 13 real estate professionals, including:
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Excellent choise for first time home buyer. You don’t need a law degree to understand what the author is talking about. Highly recommended.
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This book brought up things about buying a home that I honestly would never have thought about. I really liked all the examples they used and the forms are just great. I’m glad I found this book.
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Ilona Bray, Alayna Schroeder and Marcia Stewart’s NOLO’S ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO BUYING YOUR FIRST HOME is also a standard reference which combines the savvy of buying a first home with legal tips designed to clarify common obstacles to the process. From deciding between a house, condo or coop to getting inspections, insurance, and negotiating with sellers, this is a top pick blending the real-world stories of over twenty first-time home buyer with insights from a team of real estate pros including attorneys, a home inspector, a neighborhood researcher, a mortgage specialist and more. This team approach sets the Nolo guide far above most authored by real estate agents alone.
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My boyfriend and I are buying a place together. He already owns his condo though, so has been through this before, where as I haven’t. As a law student, I’ve used nolo law before and this book was similarly great. Gave me a great foundation so I could understand all my options. Most helpful was the entire chapter on financing and what kind of loan works best for you.
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For me, because this is the only first-time buyer’s guide that discusses in detail issues around getting a personal gift or personal loan towards purchasing a home, it already deserves 5 stars.
But it’s more than just that. This is a very comprehensive guide with a helpful accompanying CD-ROM. The materials are organized clearly and presented in an easy-to-understand manner. I had read other guides such as the Dummies one which tended to be really verbose and confusing. This book stands out as a highly useable companion as you search and purchase your first home (and as you deal with real estate agents and lawyers).
Very highly recommended.
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I started looking at buying my first house many months ago and realized that the conflicting and often spotty advise I would get from friends and family wasn’t enough. I needed a book to guide me and fill in the gaps (of which there were many).
I figured a “Home Buying for Dummies” type book was what I needed, but I didn’t stop there and thumbed through almost a dozen home buying books at the local store before finding this gem by Nolo.
This was the ONLY book that guides you through the process, taking logical, simple steps while interjecting real-world experiences from different people.
It’s written in a manner that appeals to just about everyone, explaining how to find a good agent (or save yourself on closing costs by using an online broker), what you should REALLY look for when finding the house that’s right for you, all the way through closing, and even what’s involved afterwards!
Buying a home can be stressful and overwhelming, but this book really made things quite easy. I can’t think of a single home buying related subject that it doesn’t cover. If you are buying your first house, this book is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
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while some of the stuff is basic info, there’s some really excellent advice and info that even a mortgage banker i spoke with didn’t know about. definitely worth it
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If you are going to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a house, you need to invest the time and money into this book. It has everything you need to know and it is very easy to read and understand. Even if you are not sure your ready yet, this book will help.
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I found this book to be easy to follow and helpful in my process. I think the most important information is “How to find the best __________” — fill in the blank, Realtor, Mortgage Broker, Inspector. It’s very helpful to have a list of questions when interviewing people who know a lot more about the subject that I do. I’m glad I started my research with this book.
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I am currently in the process of buying my first home. This book has certainly helped with the basics of the home buying process for the typical person with no experience in real estate. I purchased this book along with a book on mortgages and found that the dual combination was essential for making good decisions. I liked that the book was easy to read, entertaining, and practical. I do agree with other book reviewers that there needs to be a supplement or a little more in depth information, but this can be accomplished by reading many sources. I would definitely recommend this book!