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| Home Buying for Dummies | 
 enlarge | Authors: Eric Tyson, Ray Brown
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Category: Book
List Price: $16.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (95 reviews)
Sales Rank: 295266
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Pages: 344
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 1568843852
Dewey Decimal Number: 643.12
UPC: 785555843851
EAN: 9781568843858
ASIN: 1568843852
Publication Date: May 24, 1996
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Product Description
Buying a home doesnit have to mean sinking your life savings into a money pit. If youive always dreamed of owning your own home, hereis a book that tells you how to make your dream come true -- without getting a bum deal (and maybe saving a penny or two along the way). In Home Buying For Dummies, Eric Tyson, best-selling author of Personal Finance For Dummies and Investing For Dummies, and real estate professional Ray Brown give you the lowdown on home ownership. With almost 40 years of experience between them, Tyson and Brown tell you what you need to know to get the best deals out there. Whether youire a first-time buyer or a real estate investor, youill find tons of advice and practical information as well as the tools to negotiate like a pro with even the slickest real estate brokers.
Amazon.com Review
This may be the best comprehensive guide for home buyers. Home Buying for Dummies is coauthored by Eric Tyson, author of several other books in the For Dummies series, and Ray Brown, a long-time real estate professional. Like other books in the series, this one is an easy and even entertaining read. But it does not gloss over details in pursuit of simplicity. Home Buying for Dummies covers all the bases, providing clear explanations and reasonable judgments on how to select a mortgage, hire a real estate agent, find the right house, and negotiate a good deal. The book goes further than most in providing helpful, specific information. For example, in discussing ways to save money for a future down payment, Home Buying for Dummies even includes the phone numbers for various mutual funds appropriate to different investment time frames. --Barry Mitzman
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 It Helped Me Buy My House September 27, 2008
A guide to home buying in the classic "for Dummies" format. This book covers the basics and the not-so-basics of residential home buying and provides a step-by-step guide to purchasing your own house. Among other topics, the book provides valuable advise regarding how to get started, how to select an agent, how to shop for a mortgage and so forth. Better yet, it does so in an understandable, but not oversimplified manner. Starting from absolute scratch, I personally found the book invaluable in purchasing my first home. Home Buying for Dummies is certainly not the final word in real estate, but it provides sufficient and highly usable information for the first-time home buyer. Read it before you meet with a buyer's agent and you can't help but get off to a great start.
Interesting June 13, 2008
Full of interesting things about home buying. I wish that in some parts it would have gone more in depth. But in the end I felt like I learned a lot from this book.
 Mortgage Books May 25, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I recently ordered several mortgage books as learning and reference tools as I embark on my new career as a loan officer. I have not read any of the books from cover to cover, but they are serving me well for the purpose intended. The book arrived in a timely manner and in the condition described.
Buy it! May 23, 2008
If you've never bought a home before, buy this book. It gives you a good overview of many areas of the homebuying process. If the thought of purchasing your first home is a bit daunting, educate yourself. This doesn't give you every single detail that you need to know, but it will help you ask informed questions and lead you on your way.
must read May 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
it is a must read if you are a first time home buyer. I knew what to ask, what to expect. I am not money savvy, but the morgage section is simple enough that I feel that helped me getting the best deal possible.
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