Compelling Buyers to Call: The Realtor’s Guide to Attracting
October 31, 2011 by AndrewTraub
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Why do all Realtors seem to advertise and market themselves using the same methods? How can we expect different or better results if we’re all doing exactly the same thing? How often are you running out the door to show homes only to find the clients don’t qualify or they’re not serious? This book teaches a complete paradigm shift for the Realtor. You’ll discover methods of building steady streams of clients by repositioning your personal real estate business to be different than the competition. You’ll be the expert and buyers will want to work with you and be willing to work on your schedule when you understand how to use techniques such as compelling offers, free information, unique selling propositions, and special mortgage programs. You’ll also learn “Sticky” website design, properly using social media platforms and techniques for syndication of your listings. Finally, Compelling Buyers to Call leads a Realtor through the process of handling an incoming buyer lead through the ultimate buyer presentation, creating solid follow-up systems, and convincing the buyer to give you referrals before they even close on their home.
Compelling Buyers to Call: The Realtor’s Guide to Attracting Buyers in Today’s Market
The Everything Homebuying Book: How to buy smart — in any
October 25, 2011 by AndrewTraub
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The good news: It?s a buyer?s market and interest rates are down. The bad news: It?s tougher to get credit and qualify for an affordable mortgage. In this volatile market, potential homebuyers need to arm themselves with as much information as they can get. This book takes them through each step of buying a home and will show them how to: choose the right house, condo, co-op, or vacation home; analyze mortgage rates, property values, and market trends; work with agents, brokers, lawyers, and lenders; and more. Whether buyers are purchasing a first home or their fourth, this updated guide walks them through their biggest purchase with expert advice they can trust. This edition includes completely new material on loans to avoid, how to determine if a house is overpriced, and avoiding foreclosure.
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Mortgages for Dummies 2nd Ed. CD (For Dummies (Lifestyles
October 25, 2011 by AndrewTraub
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With updated information on new types of loans
From adjustable-rate mortgages to balloon loans, this friendly, easy-to-understand guide helps you find your way through the home-financing jungle. Bestselling real estate authors Eric Tyson and Ray Brown cover everything you need to know about the mortgage game and show you step-by-step how to get the best possible deal.
Read by Brett Barry
Mortgages for Dummies 2nd Ed. CD (For Dummies (Lifestyles Audio))
A Home For Christmas
October 24, 2011 by AndrewTraub
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“A HOME FOR CHRISTMAS is a feel-good community tale in the best tradition of storytellers like Debbie Macomber.” Romance Junkies Dr. Janice Thornton has been lonely for too long, especially at Christmas. But Angel Ridge, Tennessee, the one place that holds the key to what family should be, is offering her a chance at a new life. Could she find happiness by taking over her uncle’s small town practice? Local contractor and carpenter Blake Ferguson comes from a big family. He’d like to fill his rambling old Victorian with one of his own. But there’s one problem. He needs a wife! When Janice shows up at his house, Blake sets a course to win her, but soon finds she’s built a wall around her heart this master carpenter finds difficult to dismantle. Can the magic of an Angel Ridge Christmas bring hearts home or will old hurts create an obstacle even the town’s legendary angels can’t overcome?
Home Front
October 18, 2011 by AndrewTraub
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From a distance, Michael and Joleen Zarkades seem to have it all: a solid marriage, two exciting careers, and children they adore. But after twelve years together, the couple has lost their way; they are unhappy and edging toward divorce. Then the Iraq war starts. An unexpected deployment will tear their already fragile family apart, sending one of them deep into harm’s way and leaving the other at home, waiting for news. When the worst happens, each must face their darkest fear and fight for the future of their family. An intimate look at the inner landscape of a disintegrating marriage and a dramatic exploration of the price of war on a single American family, HOME FRONT is a provocative and timely portrait of hope, honor, loss, forgiveness, and the elusive nature of love.
The 250 Questions Everyone Should Ask about Buying Foreclosures
October 17, 2011 by AndrewTraub
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Whether you’re looking to buy foreclosed property as an investment-or as your dream home, The 250 Questions Everyone Should Ask About Buying Foreclosures provides you with the essential questions and answers including how to:
- Decide if a foreclosure purchase is right for you
- Learn the foreclosure rules particular to your state
- Find thousands of property listings before anyone else
- Place the perfect bid at auctions
- Buy properties during various stages of the foreclosure process
- Get an initial investment together
This one-of-a-kind guide will explain everything you need to know to get in on-and profit from-this lucrative real estate opportunity.
Lita Epstein, MBA, excels at translating complex financial topics critical to people’s everyday life. She has more than a dozen books on the market, including The 250 Questions You Need to Ask to Avoid Foreclosure, Streetwise(r) Crash Course MBA, Streetwise(r) Retirement Planning, and Alpha Teach Yourself Retirement Planning in 24 Hours. She was the content director for the financial services Web site MostChoice.com and managed the site Investing for Women. She also wrote TipWorld’s Mutual Fund Tip of the Day in addition to columns about mutual fund trends for numerous websites. She lives in Poinciana, FL.
My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir
October 16, 2011 by AndrewTraub
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In a dramatic, moving work of historical reporting and personal discovery, Mark Whitaker, award-winning journalist, sets out to trace the story of what happened to his parents, a fascinating but star-crossed interracial couple, and arrives at a new understanding of the family dramas that shaped their lives—and his own.
His father, “Syl” Whitaker, was the charismatic grandson of slaves who grew up the child of black undertakers from Pittsburgh and went on to become a groundbreaking scholar of Africa. His mother, Jeanne Theis, was a shy World War II refugee from France whose father, a Huguenot pastor, helped hide thousands of Jews from the Nazis and Vichy police. They met in the mid-1950s, when he was a college student and she was his professor, and they carried on a secret romance for more than a year before marrying and having two boys. Eventually they split in a bitter divorce that was followed by decades of unhappiness as his mother coped with self-recrimination and depression while trying to raise her sons by herself, and his father spiraled into an alcoholic descent that destroyed his once meteoric career.
Based on extensive interviews and documentary research as well as his own personal recollections and insights, My Long Trip Home is a reporter’s search for the factual and emotional truth about a complicated and compelling family, a successful adult’s exploration of how he rose from a turbulent childhood to a groundbreaking career, and, ultimately, a son’s haunting meditation on the nature of love, loss, identity, and forgiveness.
The Future of Housing Finance: Restructuring the U.S.
October 11, 2011 by AndrewTraub
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Although there was no single cause for the financial crisis of 2008, fundamental flaws in the U.S. housing finance market certainly contributed to the near collapse of this nation’s financial system. There is broad bipartisan agreement that given their role in the financial crisis, government housing policies need to be reevaluated. In response, the Obama administration has recommended reducing the role of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in housing finance, with the ultimate goal of replacing these government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) with a private market that would become the primary source of mortgage credit and bear the burden of risk.
In The Future of Housing Finance, Martin Neil Baily and his contributors discuss the issues and options that policymakers face as they reassess the government’s role in the U.S. residential mortgage market. Will Congress agree, and if so, how fast will it move? Can the already weak housing market survive without some kind of an explicit government backstop? Who will protect consumers against risk? Will thirty-year fixed-rate mortgages become a thing of the past? Can consensus be reached?
Specific topics addressed include
• the introduction of a new system that reduces the incentives for excessive risk taking and includes a limited government role in providing credit guarantees for qualifying mortgage securities;
• the gradual withdrawal of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from the housing finance system;
• new approaches to regulating mortgage securitization, with the primary goal of financial stability; and • the introduction of government-backed guarantees through institutional structures designed to limit moral hazard.
The volume also includes remarks by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on the Obama administration’s strategy for reforming the nation’s housing finance markets and a keynote address delivered by former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan.
The Future of Housing Finance: Restructuring the U.S. Residential Mortgage Market
The Perfectly Imperfect Home: How to Decorate and Live Well
October 8, 2011 by AndrewTraub
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Style is a luxury, and luxury is simply what makes you happy.
Over the years, design expert Deborah Needleman has seen all kinds of rooms, with all kinds of furnishings. Her conclusion: It’s not hard to create a relaxed, stylish, and comfortable home. Just a few well-considered items can completely change the feel of your space, and The Perfectly Imperfect Home reveals them all.
Ranging from classics such as “A Really Good Sofa” and “Pretty Table Settings” to unusual surprises like “A Bit of Quirk” and “Cozifications,” the essential elements of style are treated in witty and wonderfully useful little essays. You’ll learn what to look for, whether you are at a flea market or a fancy boutique—or just mining what you already own.
Celebrated artist Virginia Johnson’s original watercolor illustrations bring the items and the inspiring rooms of world-famous tastemakers to vibrant life. Styling tips and simple how-tos show you techniques to put it all together to create, say, a beautifully made bed (the fast way and the fancy way), an inviting reading nook, or an effortlessly chic display of pictures.
According to Deborah, the point of decorating is to create the background for the best life you can have, with all its joys and imperfections.
This book will show you how.
deborah needleman is the editor in chief of WSJ. Magazine and creator of the Off Duty section of The Wall Street Journal. She was the founding editor in chief of domino magazine and coauthor of domino: the book of decorating.
virginia johnson’s illustrations have appeared in books by Kate Spade and on textiles carried in more than one hundred stores, including Barneys, Liberty of London,
and Net-A-Porter.
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Basics of Mortgage-Backed Securities (Frank J. Fabozzi Series)
October 7, 2011 by AndrewTraub
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The purpose of Basics of Mortgage-Backed Securities is to provide readers with a fundamental understanding of mortgage securities as an integral part of investment in fixed-income securities. The second edition of this MBS classic provides the latest information on the U.S. residential mortgage market, adjustable-rate mortgages and mortgage pass-throughs, relative value analyses and performance characteristics.
Dr. James Hu discusses the major changes within the mortgage market that may affect the fundamentals of mortgage securities. Some of these are: the recovery of the REMIC market after its collapse; the flourish of private-label securities; the growth of equity loan-backed securities and its establishment as a member of the fixed-income securities family. Also included are additional historical data for all exhibits. Mortgage pre-payment, dollar rolls, and private-label mortgage-backed securities are also addressed.