Tips and Traps When Buying a Home

by Robert Irwin

Book Overview

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

Featuring fully revised facts and figures that reflect the most recent changes in the real estate market, Tips & 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071508414
• ISBN13: 9780071508414
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Good tips

This is an overall good resource. It is an almost 20 yr old book (published in 1990!), hence it can't be relied upon today (2009) as the only authoritative source of info before buying a home. But, in general, it has important information on numerous tips and traps of buying a home, to better equip any 1st time buyer (like me).

Don't buy your home without it!!!

This is a must have for first time home buyers. Or Even if you have been burned the first time around. This book was very informative and easy to read. I would also reccomend that you buy "The Dictionary of Real Estate Terms". This is a great book to have also. Keep both books close at hand when shopping for a loan. There are tons of loan programs out there. But remember an educated shopper ALWAYS WINS!

Very Helpful, Accurate & Easy to Read!

This book has helped me purchase my 1st house! I want to let EVERYONE know that this book was such an informative book that provided very helpful information that my agent & mortgage lender might not be 100% truthtful with me. Therefore, this book was a neutral source of information confirming my suspicion of the seller's intentions for selling their house & other things. Mr. Irwin has written this excellent book that I even recommended to other people in bookstores. He has laid all the aspects of buying a home into a chronological order of the necessary things that you, the buyer, need to know so you will not be mislead by the seller, your agent & other parties involved in one of the biggest & costly transaction that you'll be making in your lifetime! Overall, this book was excellent in my search for my first house & the end result was a beautiful & cozy house in a good neighborhood. But in addition, I also believed that divine intervention was also present, in other words, God was also there watching over me & others involved in this BIG transaction! =)

Informative, Quick Read

Page per page this book probably has more useful information in it then any other real estate book I've read to date.Useful, practical and applicable, the information contained inside can be used for a myriad of areas that you will be involved in when buying your home. The section on "How to Buy a Home" and "How to Make a Low Offer the Seller Will Accept" is worth the price of the book. It is a VERY quick read. Mr Irwin's style is such that you can pick up the meat of what he wants to say in a few sentences or a quick paragraph or two. I bought it a few days ago and I am 80% finished. It'll be done by the time you allread this review.

Incredibly Helpful

I found this book to be incredibly helpful and an invaluable resource. I've been through the process once before, and all I can say is that I wish I had bought this book then.