Nolo's essential guide to buying your first home
By: by Ilona Bray, Alayna Schroeder & Marcia Stewart
Contributors: Schroeder, Alayna, 1975-; Stewart, Marcia
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Nolo; NOLO
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781413313222; 9781413313482
Subjects: House buying
Other titles: Essential guide to buying your first home
Description: "Presents a detailed view of how home purchases take place across the U.S. in easy-to-understand terms. The new edition emphasizes that careful research is necessary before deciding what price and terms to include in an offer and warns of the changing requirements to secure financing"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Your homebuying companion; title: What's so great about buying a house? Why you can and should do it; title: What do you want? Figuring out your homebuying needs; title: Does this mean I have to balance my checkbook? Figuring out what you can afford; title: Stepping out : what's on the market and at what price. What's the buzz?; title: Select your players : your real estate team; title: Bring home the bacon : getting a mortgage; title: Mom and dad? The seller? Uncle Sam? Loan alternatives; title: I love it! It's perfect! Looking for the right house; title: Plan B : fixer-uppers, FSBOs, foreclosures, and more; title: Show them the money : from offer to purchase agreement; title: Toward the finish line : tasks before closing; title: Send in the big guns : professional property inspectors; title: Who's got your back? homeowners' insurance and home warranties; title: Seal the deal : finalizing your homebuying dreams; title: Settling into your new home.