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Home Buying Kit For Dummies
by Eric Tyson, Ray Brown
Good basic info but outdated
I wish I had gotten around to reading this before the middle of the home buying process, but I was kind of glad to see how much I had learned in a short time from the experience itself. This book is good if you literally know nothing about buying a house (like I used to), but has some definite deficiencies. It's outdated enough that it doesn't even contemplate interest rates below 4%, barely discusses online resources, and seems focused on demonizing some types of mortgages that I'm not sure even exist anymore. It also is definitely geared toward the middle of the country as opposed to real estate markets in more competitive cities. All this talk of $200,000 houses got irritating after a while.
I wish I had gotten around to reading this before the middle of the home buying process, but I was kind of glad to see how much I had learned in a short time from the experience itself. This book is good if you literally know nothing about buying a house (like I used to), but has some definite deficiencies. It's outdated enough that it doesn't even contemplate interest rates below 4%, barely discusses online resources, and seems focused on demonizing some types of mortgages that I'm not sure even exist anymore. It also is definitely geared toward the middle of the country as opposed to real estate markets in more competitive cities. All this talk of $200,000 houses got irritating after a while.