Rent vs. own A real estate reality check for navigating booms, busts, and bad advice
Book - 2012
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- Published
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San Francisco :
Chronicle Books
[2012]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 265 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781452102535
- Apartment therapy: what's a person like me doing in a real estate market like this?
- The United States of homeownership
- Talk is cheap, housing is expensive
- What kind of investment is a home?
- The S-word: sustainable housing
- Who is the real real estate consumer?
- Confronting your credit history
- Deposits and down payments
- Monthly payments: rent check versus mortgage payment
- How mortgages work
- What does an agent do?
- Researching properties
- Cutting a deal
- Distressed properties: damaged goods
- or good deals?
- Controlling your space
- Nest in peace
- Preserving property value in a dynamic market
- Exiting gracefully
- Life change: the rent/own lifecycle
- The future: where do we go from here?