Rent vs. own
Subtitle: a real estate reality check for navigating booms, busts, and bad advice
By: Jane Hodges
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781452102535
Subjects: House buying; Rental housing; Home ownership; Landlord and tenant
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Apartment therapy: what's a person like me doing in a real estate market like this?; title: The United States of homeownership; title: Talk is cheap, housing is expensive; title: What kind of investment is a home?; title: The S-word: sustainable housing; title: Who is the real real estate consumer?; title: Confronting your credit history; title: Deposits and down payments; title: Monthly payments: rent check versus mortgage payment; title: How mortgages work; title: What does an agent do?; title: Researching properties; title: Cutting a deal; title: Distressed properties: damaged goods; title: or good deals?; title: Controlling your space; title: Nest in peace; title: Preserving property value in a dynamic market; title: Exiting gracefully; title: Life change: the rent/own lifecycle; title: The future: where do we go from here?