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Real Estate
Selling Sell Your Home Without a Broker
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Sell Your Home Without a Broker |
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| By: Joseph P. DiBlasi Attorney at Law |
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| Product ISBN: E9781572485297 | ||
| Price: $12.95 | ||
| Publication Date: December 2005 | ||
Save thousands of dollars in real estate commissions. Sell your own home for a greater profit and on your own terms. |
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Full Description
Tens of thousands of for-sale-by-owner homes go on the market every year. Those who do it right make top dollar and save thousands of dollars in real estate commissions. You, too, can sell your own home for a greater profit and on your own terms.
Sell Your Home Without a Broker takes you through each step in the home-selling process. It cuts through the confusion and addresses the important issues of selling your own home. Armed with the essential information provided, you can sell your home quickly, make a greater profit and do it all at your own pace.
Written by a seasoned real estate attorney, Sell Your Home Without a Broker teaches you how to: use the Internet to your advantage, write a powerful advertisement, save money at closing, dodge pitfalls in the home-selling process, host an effective open house, and make moving day a breeze.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: What is a Mortgage?
- How are Mortgages Structured?
- Promissory Notes
Chapter 2: The Mortgage Industry
- Why Would a Primary Lender Sell a Loan?
- Who Buys These Loans?
- What the Secondary Market Means to You
Chapter 3: Underwriting
- Credit History
- Income-to-Debt Ratios
- The Property
- Sample Gift Letter
Chapter 4: Interest Rates -
- Understanding Interest Rates
- Points and Buydowns
- Locking in Your Loan Rate
- Assumable Mortgages and Prepayment Penalties
Chapter 5: Prequalifying for a Loan
- Using a Real Estate Agent
- Using the Web
- Using a Lender
Chapter 6: The Term
Chapter 7: Payment Plans
- Biweekly Payment Plans
- Graduated Payment Mortgage
- Interest-Only Loans
- Balloon Payment Mortgages
Chapter 8: Fixed Mortgages
- Why is the Interest Rate Always a Little Higher?
- Things to Know
Chapter 9: Adjustable Rate Mortgages
- Indexes
- Margins
- Start Rate
- Understanding ARMs
- Flexible Payment Adjustable Rate Mortgage
Chapter 10: Hybrid Mortgages
Chapter 11: Jumbo Loans
- Avoiding the Jumbo Loan
Chapter 12: Prepayment
- Changes that Affect Prepayments Today
Chapter 13: Government Loans
- FHA Insured Mortgage Loans
- The FHA Advantage
- VA Loans
Chapter 14: Hard Money Mortgages -
- Bridge Loans
- Sub-Prime Loans
Chapter 15: Junior Loans
- The Piggyback Loan
- The SingleFile Mortgage
Chapter 16: Home Equity Loans
- Home Equity Line of Credit
Chapter 17: Refinancing
- Whether to Do It
- How to Do It
Chapter 18: Manufactured Housing
Chapter 19: Inflation
- Inflation and Mortgages
Chapter 20: Foreclosure
- How Foreclosure Works
- Avoiding Foreclosure
- Doing Nothing
- Foreclosure Scams
- Bankruptcy
Chapter 21: The Purchase Money Mortgage
- The Seller
- Scams
- Selling the Mortgage
Chapter 22: The Reverse Mortgage
- How It Works
- What You Can Borrow
- Home Equity Conversion Mortgage
- Criteria
- Types of Reverse Mortgages
- Distinguishing FHA with Non-FHA Loans
- The Home Keeper Mortgage
- Annuities
- Future Problems
- Reverse Mortgage Comparison Worksheet
- Reverse Mortgage Comparison Worksheet
Chapter 23: First-Time Buyers
- Budget
- Assets
- Spending
Chapter 24: The Right Loan for You
- Fixed Interest Rate Loans
- Adjustable Rate Mortgages
- Lenders and Mortgage Brokers
- Mortgage Comparison Worksheet
- Mortgage Comparison Worksheet
Conclusion
Glossary
Appendix A: Amoritization Tables
Appendix B: Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act
Appendix C: The Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act
Index
About the Author
Excerpt
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