Home Buying for Dummies

Eric Tyson, Ray Brown

Rating: 4.5/5 Stars
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This may be the best comprehensive guide for home buyers. Home Buying for Dummies is coauthored by Eric Tyson, author of several other books in the For Dummies series, and Ray Brown, a long-time real estate professional.

Like other books in the series, this one is an easy and even entertaining read. But it does not gloss over details in pursuit of simplicity. Home Buying for Dummies covers all the bases, providing clear explanations and reasonable judgments on how to select a mortgage, hire a real estate agent, find the right house, and negotiate a good deal.

The book goes further than most in providing helpful, specific information. For example, in discussing ways to save money for a future down payment, Home Buying for Dummies even includes the phone numbers for various mutual funds appropriate to different investment time frames. --Barry Mitzman--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Eric Tyson is a syndicated personal financial writer, lecturer, and counselor. He is dedicated to teaching people to manage their personal finances better.

Eric is a former management consultant to Fortune 500 financial service firms. Over the past two decades, he has successfully invested in securities as well as in real estate and has started and managed several businesses.

He holds a bachelor's degree in economics at Yale and an M.B.A. at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
An accomplished freelance personal finance writer, Eric is the author of five other national best-sellers in the...For Dummies series: Home Buying (co-author), Personal Finance, Investing, Mutual Funds, and Taxes (co-author).

His work has been featured and praised in hundreds of national and local publications, including Newsweek, Kiplinger's, The Wall Street Journal, Money, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and on NBC's Today Show, PBS's Nightly Business Report, CNN, The Oprah Winfrey Show, ABC, CNBC, Bloomberg Business Radio, CBS National Radio, and National Public Radio.
Eric has counseled thousands of clients on a variety of personal finance, investment, real estate, and mortgage quandaries and questions.

In addition to maintaining a financial counseling practice, he is a popular speaker on important personal finance topics.

Ray Brown, co-author of the national best-seller Home Buying For Dummies, is a veteran real estate broker with more than two decades of hands-on experience.

A former vice president and manager for Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Company and McGuire Real Estate, and founder of his own real estate firm, the Raymond Brown Company, Ray is currently a writer, radio talk show host, and public speaker on residential real estate topics.
Ray believes that most people are pretty darn smart.

When they have problems, it's usually because they don't know the right questions to ask to get the information they need to make good decisions.

This book completes Ray's residential real estate trilogy and fulfills his dream of helping folks find their way through the often mystifying process of buying, financing, and selling their homes.
On his way to becoming a real estate guru, Ray worked as the real estate analyst for KGO-TV (ABC's affiliate in San Francisco), a syndicated real estate columnist for The San Francisco Examiner, and he hosts a weekly radio program, Ray Brown on Real Estate, for KNBR.

In addition to his work for ABC, Ray has appeared as a real estate expert on CNN, NBC, CBS, and in The Wall Street Journal and Time.

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Home Buying for Dummies
Eric Tyson, Ray Brown


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	This may be the best comprehensive guide for home buyers. Home Buying for Dummies is coauthored by Eric Tyson, author of several other books in the For Dummies series, and Ray Brown, a long-time real estate professional... read full editorial

	Book Description
	This new edition of America's # 1 best-selling real estate book takes the pain out of choosing, negotiating for, and buying a home. Helping home buyers save time and money, personal finance guru Eric Tyson and real estate... read full editorial

	The publisher, IDG Books
	Are you considering making one of the largest investments of your life -- buying a home? Do you get headaches thinking about budgets, mortgage calculations, inpsections, and appraisals? Well, there's no need to stress! ... read full editorial

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Home Buying for Dummies
Eric Tyson, Ray Brown


	Best Resource Book I Have Ever Read
	(Massachusetts) May 28, 2003 - 5.0/5 stars
	I bought this book back in 1999 when I was thinking about investing in a townhouse. I took the book to lunch with me everyday - found a quiet place - took out my calculator and gained extreme confidence in my real... read full review

	Good for getting the mechanics down
	(Boston, MA USA) April 14, 2003 - 4.0/5 stars
	This book turned out to be mostly what I was expecting: Very good for getting familiar with the mechanics and logistics of the home-buying process, but hammers away at some obvious points in other areas.My background... read full review

	Satisfactory overview
	(Amherst, MA) January 28, 2001 - 3.0/5 stars
	I was somewhat disappointed in this book. It gave a pretty good overview of home buying, but lacked the detail and specific advice that I was looking for. Fortunately, I got a better feel for what to look for from... read full review

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