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Articles & Books From Home Ownership & Renting
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.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 11-13-2024
Whether you’re relocating to an apartment in a new city, a student searching for your first rental, or an experienced renter stepping up your game, you need a few tools to search for a new place to call home confidently. This Cheat Sheet covers a few critical steps for successfully finding a rental quickly.Your upfront costs to move in to a rentalSticker shock for moving into a rental is real, and you can avoid it by being prepared and knowing the numbers in advance.
Useful guidance at all stages of the renting processRenting For Canadians For Dummies helps soon-to-be renters feel confident navigating the multi-step renting process. Inside, you'll learn how to find a place that works for your needs and budget, get your security deposit back when you move out, and everything in between.
Untangle the renting process and find your perfect place Renting For Dummies explains everything you, as a renter, need to know. Search for the ideal home, put in your application, and get yourself moved in. You’ll learn how to effectively hunt for rentals, figure out what you can afford, and how to find the neighborhood that’s best for you.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 01-08-2024
Whether you’re a relocator moving to an apartment in a new city, a recent grad searching for your first rental house, or an experienced renter stepping up your game, you need a few tools to search for a new place to call home confidently. This Cheat Sheet covers a few critical steps for successfully finding a rental quickly.
Article / Updated 08-03-2023
To a great extent, successful downsizing relies on careful planning. Of course, even with the perfect plan, you’re likely to encounter unexpected challenges. We know a couple who planned impeccably and still had to downsize three times before they finally found the right fit.However, a well-laid plan can help you avoid many of the most serious and unpleasant surprises and recover more easily from those that are unavoidable.
Article / Updated 07-12-2023
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?
Article / Updated 07-10-2023
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.
Article / Updated 07-07-2023
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.
Article / Updated 07-05-2023
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.