The Frugal Homeowners Guide: To Buying, Selling, & Improving Your Home
by Julie Garton-Good

Designed around author Julie Garton-Good's syndicated newspaper column over the past decade, this guide tackles the tough questions about buying, selling, and improving your home and provides prudent, frugal answers. Written in an easy-to-follow Q&A format, the book will be a homeowner handbook and staple for years to come.

Top Ten Real Estate Books
(compiled for Real Estate Professional Magazine by Waldenbooks (in red print)

1.  Home Buying for Dummies, Tyson and Brown, IDG Books

Home Buying for Dummies (For Dummies):
by Eric Tyson, Ray Brown

The authors, experts in real estate and financial planning, provide information and advice on the home buying market and how to make wise decisions with solid financial planning. It is filled with tips on what, when and where to buy, and covers how to get the right people involved in the proceess, plus provides a handy checklist and helpful hints

2. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buying and Selling A Home, O'Hara - McMillan.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buying and Selling a Home:
by Shelley O'Hara

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buying and Selling a Home helps you make sense of the world of real estate--so you can sell your existing home and buy your dream home--with or without an agent. You get simple steps to each stage of the process, plus friendly advice from a best-selling author. Find out how to find your dream home, make an offer and negotiate successfully, understand an inspection report, make home improvements and increase resale value, and more.

3. How To Make Big Money in Real Estate
Hicks - Prentice-Hall.

4.  How To Buy And Manage Rental Properties
Milan - Simon Schuster.

5.  How To Buy The Home You Want
 Eilers. - Hyperion

How to Buy The Home You Want

by Terry Eilers

The tips and tricks essential to finding the perfect home and closing the perfect deal from the ultimate real estate authority. Now readers can put Eilers' expertise to work for them by following his in-depth guidelines, supplemented with checklists and sample forms.

6.  Tips and Traps When Buying A Home
Irwin - McGraw Hill.

Tips and Traps When Buying A Home
by Robert Irwin

Home sweet home or money pit? The second edition of this national bestseller shows readers dozens of Tips and Traps to be aware of when purchasing a home. Learn how to deal with brokers inspectors, and lawyers--ask the right questions and learn when to make an offer. 20 illustrations.

7.  How to Sell Your Home Fast For the Highest Price
 in Any Market, Eilers - Hyperion.

How To Sell Your Home Fast For the Highest Price in Any Market
by Terry Eilers

Eilers, an expert on the real estate market, goes public with the trade secrets essential to negotiating a swift and successful sale. He takes the reader through every step of the process, from finding a qualified agent and establishing a list price, to marketing and advertising the house, and managing the details of closing. Loaded with charts, checklists and sample forms, this is the single best provision a homeowner can make to ensure success in the real estate market.

8.  Landlording, (8th Ed). Robinson. ExPress.

9.  100 Questions Every First Time Home Buyer Should Ask,Glink-Times Books

10. Tips and Traps When Selling A Home, Irwin - McGraw-Hill.

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