Starting Points: Guide to Home Buying & Selling

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Nonfiction - 3rd Floor  
 

Buying & Selling

50 Simple Steps You Can Take to Sell Your Home Faster and for More Money in any Market  - 333.33 Gli

Buyers are liars & sellers are too!: the truth about buying or selling your home -333.33 Cou

Clark smart real estate: the ultimate guide to buying and selling real estate – 333.33 How

Nolo’s essential guide to buying your first home – 643.12 Bra

Open house: a home inspection guide for buyers & sellers – 333.33 Tra

Secrets of Buying and Selling Real Estate-- Without Using Your Own Money - 332.72 She

Tips and traps when negotiating real estate – 333.33 Irw

Your new house: the alert consumer’s guide to buying and building a quality home – 643.12 Fie 2000

Mortgage

Mortgages 101: quick answers to over 250 critical questions about your home loan – 332.722 Ree

The mortgage book – 332.722 Dor

An  insider’s guide to refinancing your mortgage: money-saving secrets you need to know – 332.722 Ree

How to save thousands of dollars on your home mortgage – 332.722 Joh

Investing

The Automatic Millionaire Homeowner (also in audiobook) - 332.024 Bac

Flip: how to find, fix, and sell houses for profit – 332.6324 Vil

Real estate investing for dummies – 332.6324 Tys

Retire on the house: using real estate to secure your retirement – 333.338 Edm

Finding Additional Material

Dewey Decimal browsing numbers: 333.33 & 643.12
In addition to reference books, you may want to search for other books and materials (videos, audiobooks, etc.) on your topic. The best way to find good sources of information is to do a subject search in our Library catalog. You can access the Library catalog from the Library or from your home computer by going to our Web page (www.wppl.org), then to Search Our Catalog.  Good subject headings for this topic include: house buying; house selling; home ownership; mortgage loans.

eBooks
Visit EBSCOhost to search the collection of thousands of eBooks the Library has to offer. Library card required. Contact a reference librarian for additional details.

Articles
The following sources can be used to find magazine articles dealing with your topic:

·            The Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature - Adult Reference  R 050 R
       Search for articles on a subject within any given year.

       EBSCOhost and Infotrac Onefile  - Access from the Library or at home using your library card number at www.wppl.org.  Search for full-text
       articles in these online databases using your choice of keywords. You can limit the search to a certain year or even a certain magazine.

Web Sites

Becoming a Homeowner: Fannie Mae’s guide to buying a home.   

               
Buying a Home: Nine steps to buying a home - from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.  

                                                        
Home Buyer’s Information Center: Organized checklists and tips on budgeting, finding a home, building a home, mortgages, contracts, inspections and other aspects of home buying.  

Home Purchasing Guide: A collection of helpful article from E-finance Directory.

  
Home Seller’s Information Center: Checklists, selling with or w/out agents, pricing, house-showing, contracts & more.

                                            
HouseBuyingTips.com: Many tips on buying a house and avoiding scams. 

         
Move: Articles, columns, calculators, salary converter, city guides, relocation wizard, school reports, home-buying advice and more.

   
MSN's Real Estate: Home locator, buying and selling tips, rentals, insurance, financing, repairs and, for a fee, foreclosures.

   
Zillow: Find the market value of your home or potential home, lot size, sales history, neighborhood comps, bird’s eye photos and more.

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