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Getting ready to navigate the ever-changing housing market? Tyson and Brown have packed this guide with tips for getting the best deal on your new home. They show you how to find the right property, make smart financial decisions, and understand the late lending requirements and tax implications.
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Adams Media
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Buying a first home can be both exciting and nerve-wracking. Will you qualify for a mortgage? Is your dream home achievable? How do you make sure your offer will beat others? Don't worry-now you can arm yourself with the information you need to know before you begin the hunt! In Home Buying 101, you will learn all the skills you need to find the right house at the right price, with financing that fits your budget. Full of nuts-and-bolts advice and...
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Custom House
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Two years before the housing market collapsed in 2008, Donald Trump looked forward to a crash: "I sort of hope that happens because then people like me would go in and buy," he said. But our future president wasn't alone. While millions of Americans suffered financial loss, tycoons pounced to heartlessly seize thousands of homes--their profiteering made even easier because, as prize-winning investigative reporter Aaron Glantz reveals in Homewreckers,...
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Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Underwater is a fresh perspective on the financial crisis that shows how it is still reverberating more than a decade later, casting doubt on the notion that homeownership is crucial to the American dream and inspiring a massive bet by the country's richest real-estate investors that it's not. In a dispassionate, yet deeply personal story that zips between Wall Street and Main Street-or, to be more precise, Audubon Drive in Alabama-Ryan Dezember...
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KellerINK, an imprint of Bard Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Assembled from hundreds of interviews, in-depth research, and decades of experience, Your First Home: The Proven Path to Homeownership is your trusted guide. Your First Home will help you: Navigate the real estate buying process, from home search to closing day, Secure a real estate agent to advocate for you, Find a lender you can trust, Secure the lowest interest rate and monthly payments, Identify a home that's right for you, Craft a winning offer,...
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KellerINK
Pub. Date
2022.
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Español
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"Montar en bicicleta, el primer beso, conducir por primera vez... ¡No hay nada como la magia de la primera vez! La aventura de comprar su primera casa es una experiencia inolvidable y, como en la mayoría de las aventuras, enfrentará dificultades, aprenderá nuevas habilidades y vivirá nuevas experiencias. ¿Alguna vez exploró seis casas de personas desconocidas en un mismo día? ¡Váyase preparando! ¿Alguna vez pagó más de seis cifras por...
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"Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor offers a ... chronicle of the twilight of redlining and the introduction of conventional real estate practices into the Black urban market, uncovering a transition from racist exclusion to predatory inclusion. Widespread access to mortgages across the United States after World War II cemented homeownership as fundamental to conceptions of citizenship and belonging. African Americans had long faced racist obstacles to homeownership,...
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