Top 5 Tools for Home Buyers
Published: Last Updated:Buying a home is one of the hardest things you will do in your life! Make this complicated process much easier with all of our Top 5 Tools for Home Buyers, offering a wide array of services from term glossaries, mortgage calculators, guide books, and much more!
1) Home Buying Cheat Sheet
- Easily searchable glossary
- Written in easy to understand language
- A great reference for any home buyer, from novice to experienced
- Mortgage And Amortization Calculator
- Featured on Lifehacker!
2) Zillow
- Offers free search and other tools for home buyers, sellers or renters
- Includes up-to-date mortgage rates and a mortgage calculator
- Users can customize e-mail updates to notify them when new homes are added that match their desired criteria
- Free app for the iPhone, iPad, and Android and Windows mobile smart phone platforms
- Most-visited real estate site on the Web, according to Alexa
3) Nolo's Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home
- Everything a buyer needs to know to buy a first home, with insider tips and advice from the experts!
- Will help you find the right place to live and invest in, and enjoy it!
- Filled with interesting facts, stories and insights, and common pitfalls to avoid, this book provides everything you need to select the right type of home, the right mortgage, the right agent, and the right inspections
- Read through the real experiences of over 20 first-time homebuyers, as well as insights from a team of 13 real estate professionals
- One of Amazon's 2015 Top Books of the Year So Far
4) Redfin
- The best site to connect with realtors that have your best interest in mind
- Sell your home faster and for more money
- Agents are paid based on your satisfaction, not commission
- More than 10,000 customers buy or sell homes with Redfin each year
- You save an average of $10,000 when you buy and sell with Redfin!
5) Buying a HomeDon't Let Them Make a Monkey Out of You! (2015 Edition)
- Learn how to analyze floor plans
- Learn tricks to buying a home with great resale potential
- Buying a home is a complicated process, and this book simplifies it
- Unlike anything you have read online or in any other real estate book
- Learn how to buy a house without getting ripped off!
