The Fearless Home Buyer: Razzi's Rules for Staying in Control of the Deal

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Overview

All across the country, home ownership rates are at their highest levels in years. With prices escalating monthly in the most popular areas, buyers need to look carefully before they leap. And the best place to find the information they need to make a wise home purchase is this superb new guide by award-winning journalist and real estate expert Elizabeth Razzi, which focuses as much on lifestyle as on finances.

Taking a consumer-advocate approach to buying a home, Razzi tackles all of the important financial issues, and explains what a home buyer (particularly a first-time buyer) needs to know about selecting brokers, agents, and mortgage bankers. What separates this book from the pack is that it also addresses important lifestyle matters: How do you size up a neighborhood? Tour a house? Anticipate what a home will actually be like to live in? The first in a projected new series of "Fearless" real estate titles, this book provides the kind of positive, authoritative advice that will turn any nervous home buyer into a fearless home buyer.
By an award-winning real estate journalist
Written specifically for the non-investor- the millions of Americans who are buying a home to actually live in
Fresh consumer-advocate's approach to buying a home transforms nervous home buyers into fearless home buyers
Explains everything the first-time or move-up buyer needs to know about staying in control of the deal-from getting a mortgage to the closing
Discusses the lifestyle issues to be considered before buying a home: how to select a neighborhood; the pros and cons of different house styles; how to test the commute
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781584794394
  • Publisher: Abrams, Harry N., Inc.
  • Publication date: 1/1/2006
  • Pages: 384
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 1.12 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: Why Buy? 11
Part 1 Getting Ready to Make Your Move
Chapter 1 Getting Ready to Make Your Move 26
Chapter 2 Putting Together a Down Payment 43
Chapter 3 Mortgages Explained 60
Chapter 4 Shopping Is Shopping: Get the Best Loan 77
Chapter 5 Special Challenges for the Move-up Buyer 105
Part 2 Hunting for Your New Home
Chapter 6 What Kind of Home? Special Issues to Consider 116
Chapter 7 Home Styles: What They're Like to Live In 133
Chapter 8 How to Size up a Neighborhood 147
Chapter 9 Buying Out of Town: How to Level the Playing Field 157
Chapter 10 Get an Agent in Your Corner 163
Chapter 11 For Sale by Owner 179
Chapter 12 How to Tour a Home 186
Part 3 Closing The Deal
Chapter 13 Making an Offer 200
Chapter 14 Anxiety Time: Negotiating Your Way to a Deal 215
Chapter 14.5 Special Tips for Surviving a Cutthroat Seller's Market 226
Chapter 15 How to Wrap up the Deal 248
Chapter 16 Closing Day! 265
Part 4 Home At Last
Chapter 17 Home at Last 276
Chapter 18 Home Rituals 285
Appendix 1 Razzi's Rules 294
Appendix 2 Cheat Sheet for Touring a Home 315
Appendix 3 Handy Web Sites 318
Appendix 4 HUD-1 Statement of Settlement Costs 326
Appendix 5 Some Typical Closing Fees 329
Appendix 6 State Real Estate Commissions 331
Appendix 7 Typical Flaws and Repair Costs 338
Appendix 8 Examples of Real Estate Contracts 340
Glossary 358
Index 376
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