Nolo's Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home
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Nolo's Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home

  1. 481 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Nolo's Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home

About this book

Everything you need to know to buy a home, with tips and advice from real estate experts!

With rental prices sky-high, buying a home looks like a better investment than ever. But what steps should you take to find, buy, and move into your new home? Nolo's Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home will help you find the right place to live and invest in—and to enjoy the process, too.

As exciting as buying a first home is, it involves huge financial, contractual, and other decisions. This book gives you the inside scoop from industry experts such as real estate agents, mortgage brokers, home inspectors, and lawyers. It provides clear, in-depth information about important steps like:

  • checking out prospective homes
  • making a purchase offer that a seller will choose above all others
  • getting a mortgage whose terms you can live with
  • examining the house's physical condition
  • negotiating complications during escrow
  • taking title, and
  • closing on the purchase.

You'll hear from other homebuyers, too—about important lessons learned from what went right or wrong with their own home purchases. This latest edition is fully updated to reflect current real estate and mortgage market conditions as well as technological innovations.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Your Homebuying Companion
  5. 1. What’s So Great About Buying a House?
  6. 2. What Do You Want? Figuring Out Your Homebuying Needs
  7. 3. Does This Mean I Have to Balance My Checkbook? Figuring Out What You Can Afford
  8. 4. Stepping Out: What’s on the Market and at What Price
  9. 5. Select Your Players: The Real Estate Team
  10. 6. Bring Home the Bacon: Getting a Mortgage
  11. 7. Mom and Dad? The Seller? Uncle Sam? Loan Alternatives
  12. 8. I Love It! It’s Perfect! Looking for the Right House
  13. 9. Plan B: Fixer-Uppers, FSBOs, Foreclosures, and More
  14. 10. Show Them the Money: From Offer to Purchase Agreement
  15. 11. Toward the Finish Line: Tasks Before Closing
  16. 12. Send in the Big Guns: Professional Property Inspectors
  17. 13. Who’s Got Your Back? Homeowners’ Insurance and Home Warranties
  18. 14. Seal the Deal: Finalizing Your Homebuying Dreams
  19. Appendix: Accessing the Downloadable Homebuyer’s Toolkit Forms
  20. Index
  21. Book Registration

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Information

Publisher
NOLO
Edition
9
Year
2025
Topic
Business
Print ISBN
9781413332421
Subtopic
Entrepreneurship
eBook ISBN
9781413332438
Index
Business

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