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March 10, 2025

Home Buying Kit For Dummies

Overview

The top choice among home buyers in need of assistance

Home Buying Kit For Dummies is your one-stop guide to navigating the housing market and buying a home. This updated book helps you through the largest—and most complex—purchase you're likely to make, offering a map to navigating the occasionally choppy waters of home buying. Get insight on evaluating your financial readiness to buy a house, securing a mortgage, building a team of advisors, negotiating a deal, and getting your new home ready after you buy. A small investment in know-how will make a big difference, making every step of the home buying process smoother.

  • Understand interest rates and determine your budget for buying a new home
  • Learn how to get approved for a mortgage and recognize fair house prices
  • Get a real estate agent and find the home that fits your needs
  • Survive the inspection and appraisal stage, then seal the deal

This book is a perfect choice for first-time and inexperienced home buyers who need advice on the steps in buying a home.

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About The Author

Eric Tyson, MBA, has shared his financial expertise in bestselling books like Personal Finance For Dummies and Real Estate Investing For Dummies.

Ray Brown is a real estate professional with over four decades of experience.

He co-authored the previous seven editions of this book Robert S. Griswold, MSBA, CRE, CRM, is a successful real estate investor and property manager. He’s author of Property Management Kit For Dummies and co-author of Landlord’s Legal Kit For Dummies.

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CHEAT SHEET

Buying a home can be as terrifying as it is exhilarating and satisfying. This Cheat Sheet offers 20 of the top home-buying tips from the professionals. And it also gives you a monthly mortgage calculator to see how much house your budget can afford. © Monkey Business Images / Shutterstock.comTop 20 hints for home buyersYou can never have too much information when shopping for your home.

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When you own a home, the odds are extraordinarily high that someday you’ll sell it. People who live their entire lives in their first home are rare. Selling a house is generally somewhat less complicated than buying one. But just because selling a house may be easier than buying one doesn’t mean that most people sell their houses properly.
Good news. It doesn’t matter whether you buy a log cabin, Cape Cod colonial, French provincial, Queen Anne Victorian, or California ranch-style house. You can make money on any property by following three fundamental principles to select the home you buy. As you read the following home-buying guidelines, remember that they’re not hard-and-fast rules — exceptions do exist.
When you’re looking for the right house, it’s good to know the fair market value. This article helps you determine the fair market value of the properties you’re interested in.Believe it or not, houses are like Red Delicious apples. Most houses are green and need more time on the real estate tree before they’re ready to pick.
Buying a home can be as terrifying as it is exhilarating and satisfying. This Cheat Sheet offers 20 of the top home-buying tips from the professionals. And it also gives you a monthly mortgage calculator to see how much house your budget can afford. © Monkey Business Images / Shutterstock.comTop 20 hints for home buyersYou can never have too much information when shopping for your home.
Copyright © 2016 Eric Tyson and Ray Brown. All rights reserved.When choosing between an adjustable-rate mortgage and a fixed-rate mortgage, many people don't realize that they're making a choice between mortgages on which the interest rate is determined by either short-term or long-term interest rates.What's a short-term versus a long-term interest rate?
Negotiation is an ongoing process — a series of steps without a neatly defined beginning and end. Think of water flowing as you approach the process for negotiating house prices.Each step in the negotiating process begins by gathering information. Once you understand the various aspects of buying a home, then you can translate your information into action that generates more information that in turn leads to further action.
Nearly everyone seems to have an opinion about buying a home. People in the real estate business — including agents, lenders, property inspectors, and other related people — endorse homeownership. Of course, why wouldn’t they? Their livelihoods depend upon it! Therein lies one fundamental problem of nearly all home buying books written by people who have a vested interest in convincing their readers to buy a home.
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