Nolo's Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home (eBook)

Ilona Bray, Ann O'Connell, Stewart Stewart (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019 | 7., Seventh Edition
448 Seiten
Nolo (Verlag)
978-1-4133-2701-4 (ISBN)

Infos

A fun-to-read guide for anyone looking to leave apartment living behind and enjoy the benefits of homeownership. Makes the complicated process of buying a first home manageable, financially and otherwise. Helps avoid newbie mistakes and possible legal disputes. A favorite among readers, fully updated to reflect today’s widely variable U.S. real estate market.

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There’s no place like home!

Ready to say goodbye to your landlord? With help from Nolo’s Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home, you’ll not only find
the right house for you, you’ll have fun doing it.

Learn how to:

• research the local market and listings
  
• choose a house, condo, co-op, or townhouse
  
• create a realistic budget
  
• qualify for a loan you can truly afford
  
• borrow a down payment from friends or family
  
• protect yourself with inspections and insurance, and
  
• negotiate and close the deal successfully.
  

You’ll find insights from 15 real estate professionals—agents, attorneys, mortgage specialists, a home inspector, and more.
It’s like having a team of experts by your side! Plus, read real-life stories of over 20 first-time homebuyers.

Download the Homebuyer’s Toolkit>Dozens of customizable forms that will help you find your dream home, crunch the numbers, interview real estate professionals, inspect the house thoroughly, and more—available on nolo.com (details inside).

Inhalt

1. What’s So Great About Buying a House? 2. What Do You Want? Figuring Out Your Homebuying Needs 3. Does This Mean I Have to Balance My Checkbook? Figuring Out What You Can Afford 4. Stepping Out: What’s on the Market and at What Price 5. Select Your Players: Your Real Estate Team 6. Bring Home the Bacon: Getting a Mortgage 7. Mom and Dad? The Seller? Uncle Sam? Loan Alternatives 8. I Love It! It’s Perfect! Looking for the Right House 9. Plan B: Fixer-Uppers, FSBOs, Foreclosures, and More 10. Show Them the Money: From Offer to Purchase Agreement 11. Toward the Finish Line: Tasks Before Closing 12. Send in the Big Guns: Professional Property Inspectors 13. Who’s Got Your Back? Homeowners’ Insurance and Home Warranties 14. Seal the Deal: Finalizing Your Homebuying Dreams 15. Settling Into Your New Home Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.12.2019
• Zusatzinfo: charts, tables, graphs, forms
• Verlagsort: Berkeley
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: business & money • Buying a home • buying and selling homes • condo • Disclosures • Home • homebuyer • home inspections • home sales • House • house selling • investing,money • Law • legal • Market • NAREE • National Association of Real Estate Editors • personal finance • plain english • property • Purchase • Real Estate • real estate agent • self help legal • sell • Small Business • sold by owner • Staging • Townhouse • United States • US
• ISBN-10: 1-4133-2701-X / 141332701X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4133-2701-4 / 9781413327014