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Tips and Traps When Buying a Home

The classic guide to getting the best deal when buying a home--from America•s #1 real estate expert

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Featuring fully revised facts and figures that reflect the most recent changes in the real estate market, Tips And Traps When Buying a Home, Fourth Edition is helpful whether you''re a first-time or experienced home buyer. It gives you practical, step-by-step information on a broad range of proven home buying strategies, along with indispensable advice and guidance on buying in an "up" market, flipping, buying with options, bidding wars, and other important facets of real estate deals.

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Tips and Traps When Selling a Home

The classic guide to getting the best deal when selling a home--from America''s #1 real estate expert

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This latest edition of Bob Irwin''s classic Tips And Traps When Selling a Homebrings you up to speed on all the recent changes, regulations, and trends in real estate--whether you''re new to the selling process or are an experienced home seller. It provides important information on market conditions, new tax advantages, toxic materials in the home, alternatives to the traditional broker, as well as proven strategies for handling multiple offers, dealing with "fee-for-service" and discount brokers, and holding a home for investment.

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How to Get Started in Real Estate Investing

An updated edition of Robert Irwin''s popular, practical guide to the basics of investing

How to Get Started in Real Estate Investing presents a step-by-step system that walks you through your first purchase and helps you build on that success. Updated to reflect today''s market realities, this second edition is the reliable, hands-on guide every first-time investor needs.

For Sale by Owner

Listing your home "for sale by owner," or FSBO, can save an average of $10,000 in real estate commissions. That''s why everyone''s doing it. In 2005, over 2.25 million sold their home "by owner." Online FSBO options also are accelerating: In 2003, an astonishing 840,000 FSBOs used online listing services. And that rate is accelerating.

For years, the For Sale By Owner Kit has been a must-have resource, filled with essential checklists, sales forms, and sample ads designed to simplify the entire home selling process. Now fully updated, this sixth edition includes tips on:

* "Staging" a home to maximize its appeal.

* Pricing a home for quick sale.

* Managing all the necessary, but complicated, paperwork.

* Writing an air-tight, carefully worded sales agreement.

* Hiring fee-for-service agents.

Several entirely new chapters discuss handling disclosures and inspections fairly and honestly; getting full-service agents to work with you; and, most important, a detailed discussion on online home listings.

Tips & Traps When Mortgage Hunting, 3/e

WITH HUNDREDS OF MORTGAGES NOW AVAILABLE, HOW DO YOU CHOOSE THE ONE THAT''S RIGHT FOR YOU?

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Congratulations! Chances are you''re buying a new home or refinancing an old one and are now in the process of applying for a mortgage loan. Before making any decisions that could affect the next 30 years of your life, arm yourself with this edition of Tips And Traps When Mortgage Hunting.

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There are so many loans now available for practically every situation. America''s leading real estate authority, Robert Irwin, will help you cut through the confusion and find the mortgage that fits your needs and is right for your budget. If one of your biggest concerns is paying too high an interest rate, or shelling out excessive cash for closing costs, this book will save you money by showing you how to find the lowest rates available. In easy-to-understand language, Irwin explains...

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• When to use a mortgage broker and how to find the right one.
• How to use the latest technology to conduct a mortgage search online.
• How to shop for and lock in the lowest interest rate.
• How to avoid being denied a mortgage because of a credit problem.

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This clear and comprehensive guide will provide you with the most up-to-date information and insider tips to help you avoid the traps of mortgage hunting and find the right mortgage at the right,/p>.

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Tips & Traps for Getting Started as a Real Estate Agent

The practical, real-world guide to succeeding as an agent

Scared of starting a new career in real estate? Wondering if you have what it takes?

Don''t worry! Robert Irwin''s Tips and Traps for Getting Started as a Real Estate Agent answers all your toughest questions. Irwin helps you start your real estate career on the right foot, and presents proven, reliable guidance on every aspect of the profession.

This handy guide shows you how to get licensed and start making money immediately. It walks you through those first tough days and weeks on the job, helps you find a great mentor, and shares all the basics of the business-from listing and selling properties to conducting open houses and escrow.

Delivers the skills and tools you need to become a top-performing agent, including how to:

• Manage your time for maximum efficiency
• Work less and earn more by closing bigger deals
• Bring in more referrals so you can stop hunting for clients
• Take home a bigger commission in every deal

Tips & Traps When Negotiating Real Estate

Surefire techniques for coming out on top in any real estate deal

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A great book for anyone who is interested in real estate investing or planning to buy a new home, Tips And Traps When Negotiating Real Estatecovers everything from financing and deposits, to better prices versus better terms, to handling brokers and sellers alike.

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Bestselling real estate guru Bob Irwin breaks down all the common negotiating points by subject, and supplies you with checklists, forms, and boilerplates at every step along the way. You learn how to:

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• Negotiate a lower interest rate with a lender .
• Lower interest rates with seller financing .
• Gain a lower commission from an agent .

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How to Sell Your Home in a Down Market

Here is a timely guidebook from the expert author of Tips and Traps When Selling Real Estate on how to sell a home when the market is the worst it''s been since the Great Depression. Irwin offers creative, effective solutions to a very difficult problem.