Nolo's Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home *ePub
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― more details inside. Read more
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First chapter encouraging people to borrow from friends and family to afford down payment or ear spaghetti for a year and be house poor. Bad advice. Cannot read after that. Seems to say anything to encourage people to buy homes when in fact some people should not own homes, whether it's inability to pay or to keep up with maintenance. Notes that homes appreciate in value over time, when in fact Robert Shiller who co-wrote the Case-Shiller index says that don't always. It probably just keeps pace with inflation and with maintenance over time may cost more. Of course, there are some you can flip for a lot of profit but this is not the case for most. I cannot read the rest after this irresponsible advice
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