Kerin DERKLEY
Buying and Selling Your Home For Dummies
Paperback
Description
Confused and intimidated by the world of real estate? Relax!
Buying & Selling Your Home for Dummies is your practical guide to choosing a home and working with real estate agents, presenting your property for sale, and becoming a property investor.
It contains an extensive amount of information and covers just about everything you would want to know about buying and selling a house!
To go through everything this book covers would take hours because it is the most comprehensive guide available for Australian home buyers and sellers on the market today - it's like 4 or 5 books in one!
RECOMMENDATION:
The most detailed and comprehensive book on buying and selling your own home on the market. Fantastic value.
Table of Contents...
Note: This is a heavily cut-down version of the contents. Each topic numerous sub-sections.
Total pages = 389
Part 1
The Great Australian Dream
Assessing the dream
Squeezing your foot onto the property ladder
The position or the property
Dealing with property proofessionals
Part 2
Finding your dream home
The search is on
Buying a piece of history
Renovator's dream ( or nightmare)
Nice and new
Building from scratch
Part 3
Borrowing for, buying and protecting your home
Climbing abourd the mortgage merry-go-round
Going, going, gone: buying at auctions
Making an offer: buying through private treaty sale
Sold to the highest bidder! Now what?
Part 4
When it's time to sell
Making the descision to sell
Dressing (your home) to impress
Using a pro or doing it yourself
Negotiating a successful sale
The legal process of selling
Part 5
Becoming a property investor
Buying to invest
Borrowing, Tax and other nuts and bolts of investing in property
Making your investment property pay it's way
Part 6
The part of tens
Ten things to remember as a first home buyer
Ten ways to sell your home for the best price
Ten things you may not know about investing in property