Amy J. Hausman

SMART ESSENTIALS FOR BUYING A HOME shares everything you ever need to know to buy a home today...and skips the filler you don't need. We know your time is precious. in this SMART ESSENTIALS you'll find concise, practical, insider buying strategies to accomplish the six smart steps every home buyer must get right: Find the right TEAM of buyer's agent and mortgage pro to be on your side. Nail down a smart home-buying BUDGET, but not buy more home than you need. Make your MONEY work harder with the perfect loan for your financial situation. SHOP only homes that fit your budget and lifestyle to maximize your appreciation potential. NEGOTIATE counteroffers like a riverboat gambler to get the best contract. Avoid costly last-minute CLOSING mistakes that can kill your deal. In a nutshell: SMART ESSENTIALS makes you money buying the home of your dreams for the best price, saves you time buying the right home to fit your needs while keeping resale in mind, plus shows you how to avoid all-too-common mistakes that can cost you serious money. About The Author Amy J. Hausman is a freelancer and marketing professional with over 15 years experience writing and editing newsletters, blogs and books for real estate and mortgage professionals and home buying and selling consumers. Drawing on her experience as a homeowner and real estate investor, SMART ESSENTIALS FOR BUYING A HOME: How To Get The Best Price And The Lowest Payment is her first book. SMART ESSENTIALS FOR BUYING FORECLOSURES: Finding Hidden Bargains For Home Or Profit is her second title in the series. Both titles are available in paperback, hardcover and eBook editions at www.SmartEssentials.com. About The Series If you want to get smarter for less, then SMART ESSENTIAL guides are all you need. SMART ESSENTIALS are designed for readers that appreciate smart, useful, distilled information that goes straight to the point. Certainly, you can swim through the tides of endless online articles searching for useful information. Yes, you can slog through full-length how-to books trying to glean the chapters you really need hidden in the general filler. But SMART ESSENTIALS readers are too smart for that. If you want the information now; if you want it smartly presented; if you want it current for today’s market and mostly if you want your information short, concentrated and applicable to your situation — then you want SMART ESSENTIALS. Visit www.SmartEssentials.com for more how-to articles, in-depth Smarties’ Stories, smart discussions and more books.