An Insider's Guide to Refinancing Your Mortgage
An Insider's Guide to Refinancing Your Mortgage

Author: David Reed

Publisher: AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

Published: 2008-09-15

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0814410308

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For many homeowners, refinancing a mortgage can save them significant money, considerably reducing their monthly payments. It can also give them breathing space to pay off debts or allow them to make other investments, pay for college, or finance home improvements. An Insider’s Guide to Refinancing Your Mortgage is dedicated to an often-misunderstood aspect of mortgage lending: refinancing a mortgage loan. Readers will learn why to refinance, when to finance, as well as how to find the best lender, loan officer, and rate. Mortgage expert David Reed takes readers step bystep through the refinance process and shows them how to evaluate their current loan program and compare it with other options. By following Reed’s invaluable advice, homeowners will learn: when a refinance is right for them • how to lock in the absolute lowest rate at the lowest cost • how the mortgage process works from the inside • how loan officers get paid • how to identify and avoid predatory lenders • how to negotiate closing costs An Insider’s Guide to Refinancing Your Mortgage will save readers money and heartache when negotiating a loan.

Decoding the New Mortgage Market
Decoding the New Mortgage Market

Author: David Reed

Publisher: AMACOM

Published: 2009-12-09

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 081441401X

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The housing market is in turmoil, but if there’s a silver lining, it’s the fact that purchase prices are at historic lows. Sure, there are still plenty of predatory lenders waiting to exploit the naïve potential buyer, but those who do their homework will be rewarded with a fair price and manageable mortgage terms. Decoding the New Mortgage Market is a map to finding the best and most realistic mortgage deals while navigating past potential obstacles and traps. Filled with money-saving advice, this practical guide will help prospective buyers understand: • How new lending and underwriting rules affect today’s homebuyer • Different loan types and lending institutions • Credit issues and other qualifying factors • Creative down-payment solutions • How to reduce closing costs and other fees Because lenders and buyers alike have gotten “burned” in the mortgage crisis, finding and qualifying for a manageable loan may now be more difficult. Readers will find that Decoding the New Mortgage Market makes the search both easier and more fruitful, and that their dreams of home ownership are still within their reach.

The Insider's Guide to Making Money in Real Estate
The Insider's Guide to Making Money in Real Estate

Author: Dolf de Roos

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2005-04-15

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0471726435

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Start building your fortune with the ultimate insider's guide toreal estate investing The Insider's Guide to Making Money in Real Estate explains whyreal estate is a consistently profitable moneymaker and howeveryday people just like you can build their fortune regardless oftheir credit score or how much money they have in the bank. It'strue--you don't have to be rich to invest in real estate. It's theeasiest, most leveraged method for building sustainable wealth overtime, and it's open to everyone. In this practical, nuts-and-bolts guide, New York Times bestsellingreal estate authors Dolf de Roos and Diane Kennedy cover all thebasics of investing and offer the kind of insider advice andlittle-known tips you won't find anywhere else. You'll get a wealthof bright ideas and smart investment moves, as well as examples,case studies, and true investing stories from successful investorsjust like you. Inside, you'll learn: * The ins and outs of commercial versus residential property * How to spot great bargains in neighborhoods with greatpotential * How to finance your investments with less-than-perfectcredit * Quick tips for increasing the value of your propertyinexpensively * How to find reliable tenants who'll pay top dollar * Everything you need to know about property taxes anddeductions * How to use tax benefits to increase your profits

The Insider's Guide to Tax-Free Real Estate Investments
The Insider's Guide to Tax-Free Real Estate Investments

Author: Diane Kennedy

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2007-02-26

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0470087110

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This guide from bestselling real estate authors de Roos and Kennedy shows you how to use tax-free retirement funds to invest in real estate. Using real estate IRAs, you can combine the tax benefits of retirement funds with the high rates of appreciation in the real estate market, growing your retirement investments by leaps and bounds. This handy book shows you how.

Financing Your Condo, Co-Op, or Townhouse
Financing Your Condo, Co-Op, or Townhouse

Author: David REED

Publisher: AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

Published: 2009-06-24

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0814410839

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Finding a condo, co-op, or townhouse to call home is hard enough, but finding financing to buy this kind of property is even more challenging. As a veteran mortgage banker and author of Mortgages 101, David Reed has helped thousands of buyers through this complicated process. Financing Your Condo, Co-op, or Townhouse offers readers invaluable advice, including information on developer financing, specialty loans, government programs and refinance loans, streamlining the approval process, appraisals, closing costs, and more. Readers will discover: • the differences among condos, co-ops, and townhouses • how to find the right type of property for them • the rules governing loans for condos, co-ops and townhouses • how to evaluate which loan type is best and lock in the lowest rate • why the percentage of owner-occupied units is important • what to consider when buying new construction or conversion properties • the financial considerations unique to each type of home Whatever the property, whatever the question...this handy guide to financing has the answers.

The Ultimate Insider's Guide to Adoption
The Ultimate Insider's Guide to Adoption

Author: Elizabeth Swire Falker

Publisher: Grand Central Life & Style

Published: 2009-06-27

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 0446562300

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This comprehensive, accessible guide leads you with confidence through every decision you'll have to make during the adoption process -- including the ones that you'd never know to expect. So you've made the decision to adopt. What's next? For starters, how do you know whether domestic or international adoption is right for you? (And what are the real differences between the two?) Adoption insider Elizabeth Swire Falker answers these questions and many more. As an attorney who practices in the area of adoption and has worked with hundreds of families, and as an adoptive parent herself, she offers expert advice on each stage of the process. Complete with checklists, tips, sidebars, and plenty of advice, it shows you how to: Identify which adoption experts you do and don't need Find the right birth mother or choose the right country for your family-and how to spot red flags in potential situations Select an attorney or agency and prepare for your home visit Finance an adoption on a budget, manage the red tape, and get around the roadblocks Navigate all of the complex emotions that surface along the way With Elizabeth Swire Falker's warm yet been-there-done-that voice, The Insider's Guide to Adoption is sure to become a tried-and-true resource for adoptive parents everywhere.

The Insider's Guide to Real Estate Investing Loopholes
The Insider's Guide to Real Estate Investing Loopholes

Author: Diane Kennedy

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-12-03

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1118040406

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Increase Your Profits and Lower Your Tax Bill with Tax Loopholes for Every Investor The Insider's Guide to Real Estate Investing Loopholes reveals all the best and most effective tax loopholes that successful real estate investors use to maximize their profits. Completely updated with over fifty percent new material, this Revised Edition also covers all the new tax laws, and features new and updated case studies and examples. Real estate is probably the best investment money can buy, in part because there are so many profit-maximizing tax loopholes that directly benefit real estate investors. In this practical and straightforward real estate classic, bestselling authors Kennedy and de Roos show investors how to increase their investment profits and use real estate as a legal tax shelter. Inside, you'll find practical guidance and trustworthy advice on: * Tax loopholes that turn your home into a profit center * Tricks for using your vacation home as a tax-savings investment * Real estate investment strategies for taking advantage of international tax laws * Creative cash flow techniques for increasing your investment's profitability * How to cut taxes through the 1031 tax-free exchange, pension funds, real estate loss deductions, homestead exemptions, and joint tenancies * Real estate pitfalls and how to avoid them * And much more

Commercial Mortgages 101
Commercial Mortgages 101

Author: Michael REINHARD

Publisher: AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

Published: 2010-05-14

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0814415083

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With real estate prices at their lowest in years and the economy poised for a rebound, it’s an opportune time to invest in commercial real estate. But credit and financing issues can still pose challenges that prospective borrowers must overcome in order to get the money and mortgage terms they need. Commercial Mortgages 101 is a step-by-step guide for both real estate investors and mortgage brokers, offering insight, practical tools and a thorough overview of commercial mortgage underwriting and credit analysis. Readers will learn how to: Think and speak like a commercial real estate lender • Quickly size and under write a basic commercial real estate loan • Prepare a personal cash flow statement and calculate true net worth and liquidity • Read and interpret a lender’s preliminary loan proposal • Create a Schedule of Real Estate Owned • Prepare a persuasive and professional loan request package • Choose the right form of ownership (including LP, LLC, Co-tenancy and others) • And more Both thorough and timely, Commercial Mortgages 101 reveals what readers need to ensure their loans are approved.