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Everything first-timers need to know to avoid the most common mistakes homebuyers make

Written especially for first-timers, this eye-opening guide turns you into an educated consumer, ensuring that the home or condo you buy is both a comfortable place to live and a great investment for the future. Compiled from the experience of hundreds of homebuyers, real estate agents, home builders, and mortgage lenders, it shows you the most common mistakes buyers make and illustrates them in practice so you don't fall into the same traps.

Now revised and updated for today's hot real estate market, this invaluable resource covers everything from negotiating with sellers and making the down payment to shopping for the best mortgage and handling the closing. The new Fourth Edition also includes totally up-to-date guidance on using the Internet to find properties, secure financing, and collect important data. If you're thinking about buying a home in this overheated market, don't make these mistakes:
* Researching selling prices and still overpaying
* Believing everything your agent tells you
* Buying into an upscale neighborhood that's moving downscale
* Underestimating utilities and other costs
* Allowing your agent to negotiate for you
* Letting fear get the better of you and not buying at all


Written by one of the nation's leading real estate experts and packed with hundreds of valuable tips and suggestions, The 106 Common Mistakes Homebuyers Make, Fourth Edition will give you the confidence--and the wisdom--to buy the right home at the right price..
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Energy-efficient, non-toxic, healthy homes are the hottest trend in the building industry. Homebuilders are constructing green homes in astonishing numbers-nearly 200,000 in the United States alone in 2006.

How does a home buyer who wants a green home know what to look for, what questions to ask a builder, which green home rating systems to trust, and what homes are on the market? Nationally recognized green-building expert Jerry Yudelson provides answers to some common areas of concern, including:

• Energy-efficient home features
• Water conservation fixtures
• Non-toxic finishes
• Green products
• Healthy indoor air

Drawing from the expertise of dozens of homebuilders, government officials, and green home experts, Choosing Green deftly takes the reader through these considerations with easy-to-use tables, charts, maps, score sheets, and checklists.

The book includes a glossary of green building terms, an extensive resource section, and a list of homebuilders, green rating programs, and financial incentives. This comprehensive book provides home buyers with every thing they will need to make a successful search for their own green home.

Jerry Yudelson is the president of Yudelson Associates, green building consultants. He has trained over 3,000 people in the LEED green building rating system. He chairs Greenbuild, the world's largest green building conference, and has written six books on green building, including Green Building A to Z (New Society Publishers).

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One of America's top real estate authorities explains the inside secrets of the mortgage business

Each year, more than ten million American homebuyers, homeowners, and realty investors enter the mortgage arena to finance or refinance their homes and rental properties. And each year, millions of borrowers pay more than they have to. But you won't be one of them with Gary Eldred's 106 Mortgage Secrets All Homebuyers Must Learn-But Lenders Don't Tell.

Eldred explains all of your mortgage options and gives you the inside information you need to make the most intelligent money-saving choices. He simplifies the complicated math of mortgage financing and tells you how to make sure your loan rep is being honest with you. He covers every aspect of the mortgage process and highlights the key criteria you should always consider when making your decision. With these 106 secrets, you'll have the confidence and the knowledge to:

• Increase your borrowing power
• Get the lowest interest rate
• Understand ARMs
• Cut the cost of mortgage insurance
• Save big with seller financing, foreclosures, and REOs
• Perfect your credit profile
• Avoid getting taken by the fine print
• Get maximum return on your home investment

There's no reason to get a good mortgage, when you can get the perfect one for you. Simple, concise, and comprehensive, this book covers everything mortgage hunters should know-especially the 106 secrets lenders don't want to reveal..
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Many people buy a home with one eye on the Feng Shui of the property But how do you know if you are assessing the property correctly? How can you be certain that you are buying a property based on proper Feng Shui principles, not age-old superstition or old wives' tales?

International Feng Shui Consultant and Master Trainer Joey Yap shares the dos and don'ts when it comes to Feng Shui inside a property inFeng Shui for Homebuyers - Interior.

This companion to Feng Shui for Homebuyers - Exterior explains what are the positive and negative Feng Shui features that homebuyers should look out for inside a property during the homebuying process.

How do you select a property that has good Interior Feng Shui? What should you prioritise when screening the interior of a house, from a Feng Shui perspective? How important are the location of toilets? Do colours affect the Feng Shui of a property? Does it matter that the house does not face your personal auspicious direction?

Complete with colour illustrations, photographs and house plans, Feng Shui for Homebuyers - Interior helps you to screen the interior Feng Shui of a house and evaluate if the Feng Shui is favourable or unfavourable, through simple observation of the forms within a property. With the information in this book, you can avoid purchasing properties that require costly renovations to rectify internal Feng Shui flaws, select property with good interior Feng Shui and understand what is important and what is not important when it comes to Feng Shui inside the house.

In this book: Learn how to use Forms Feng Shui to evaluate the interior of a property, find out what matters when it comes to Interior Feng Shui.

Fully illustrated with helpful diagrams, floor plans and pictures to help you screen houses. An excellent introductory guide to Feng Shui for real-estate agents, architects and interior designers. Practical Walk Through section to guide you through the process of screening the interior of a house.

An excellent introduction to the salient aspects of Feng Shui for Real-Estate Agents, Architects and YOU for an improved Feng Shui living environment.

Who Should Buy This Book? This book is suitable for beginners and enthusiasts who wish to screen the Feng Shui of homes for both existing or prior to purchase properties. Architects, interior decorators and other professionals who are involved in home improvement businesses will also find this book especially handy, in regards to the current growing awareness of Feng Shui among clients and customers. With this book with its rich illustrations to augment the simple explanations of otherwise complex topics one will be able to grasp the basic know-how of conducting a thoroughly sound Feng Shui audit on any premise. The step-by-step approach of this book will also prove a boon for beginners and aficionados about to embark upon their serious study into Classical Feng Shui..
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Here are hundreds of great houses well suited to homebuyers shopping for a smart home at reasonable costs. Affordable Houses features 300 plans selected from the portfolios of two dozen fabulous architects and designers. Highly livable with low-cost construction is the focus, without scrimping on style!.
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No one wants to be a dummy when it comes to buying a house---the single biggest investment most people make. The Homebuyer's Kit helps buyers get smart.

Real estate experts Edith Lank (called the ""Dear Abby of real estate"" by USA Today) and Dena Amoruso give buyers all the tools they need to maneuver the sometimes confusing world of real estate. Packed with handy tips, checklists and worksheets, TheHomebuyer's Kit gives practical advice on launching the house hunt; choosing a real estate agent; deciding how much to spend; applying for and comparing mortgages; and managing the negotiation. The language of real estate---escrows, easements, equity and more---is clearly explained. Sample forms, payment and mortgage tables, list of Web resources, glossary and index complete the 224-page kit. For first-time and experienced buyers alike.

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Learn to screen and see properties with Feng Shui Vision

Renowned Classical Feng Shui consultant Joey Yap reveals in this book how to screen properties and determine their Feng Shui Quotient (FSQ) just by observing what is around the area and using Landform (Luan Tou) Feng Shui techniques. How do you know if a property is surrounded by good Qi? Are all houses built near T-junctions bad?

Why buy a property that has Feng Shui flaws which require fixing, when you can buy a property that is already good and simply requires improvement? Why buy a property that needs costly renovations simply to rectify the Feng Shui flaws when you can buy one that needs no renovation at all?

Complete with colour illustrations, photographs and aerial images, Feng Shui for Homebuyers - Exterior has been specially written to help house buyers avoid properties with negative Feng Shui and select properties with favourable Feng Shui utilising methods and techniques synthesised from Landform Feng Shui and classics like Ru Di Yan (Entering Earth Eye Classics). Whether you are seeking a suitable plot of land, buying-ready built landed property, or evaluating a new development, this book provides you with essential guidance on how to identify a property with good Feng Shui.

In this book: Learn how to screen houses for their Feng Shui Quotient (FSQ) using easy to use Landform or Luan Tou Feng Shui observation techniques, find out how to avoid properties with negative Feng Shui and select properties with favourable Feng Shui, discover the 'trade secrets' that Feng Shui Masters use to evaluate the Feng Shui of a property, view fully illustrated diagrams, photographs, aerial images and drawings to help you screen properties effectively, follow a Practical Walk Through section that guides the housebuyer on how to go about screening a property.

An excellent introduction to the salient aspects of Feng Shui for Real-Estate Agents and Architects..
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Selling Cities takes the optimistic position that cities can be revitalized by attracting and retaining the middle class. The authors, experienced policymakers as well as academics, review previous work on city revitalization; report original research on homebuyers in the Cincinnati and Wilmington, Delaware metropolitan areas; and present case studies of middle-income schooling and housing policies in these and other metropolitan areas around the U.S. and Canada.

Selling Cities spans several disciplines--economics, sociology, demography, law, and planning--and is one of the first books to examine both housing and schooling programs. It includes numerous recommendations for city revitalization; an analysis of middle-income housing programs such as tax abatements and below-market-rate mortgages; analyses of metropolitan school desegregation in the Wilmington area and magnet schools in Cincinnati; and proposals of policies to enhance cities' attraction and retention of the middle class..
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