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Finding the Uncommon Deal: A Top New York Lawyer Explains How to Buy a Home For the Lowest Possible Price
#1 on the New York Times Bestsellers List!
Winner of the Nationl Association of Real Estate Editors’s ‘Best First Time Author’ Award!
USA TODAY Best-Selling Books Top 150 List!
#3 on Amazon’s Best Sellers in Real Estate!
Take advantage of today’s real estate market to find tremendous properties at incredible prices.
Our recent economic meltdown transformed real estate from a popular investment to financial kryptonite. Too many people purchased homes with mortgages they simply could nev
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Seasoned investors beware. This is an intro to real estate investing!,
I’ve read quite a few real estate investing books over the years and usually glean something good from each one. When I purchased this book I was expecting some new and exciting technique to “find the uncommon deal”, plus it had some great reviews. I was very disappointed. It was mostly a review of VERY basic real estate topics. If you’ve never purchased a house before and want a basic guide then this is a great book for you. If you’re more than just a beginner, save your money. There are tons of books better than this one.
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There can be little doubt that Moby Dick has little to worry about from Finding The Uncommon Deal. Mr. Bailey has no interest in high flown phrases that ring in your imagination. Rather, he takes the street fighter’s approach to the hard boiled business of finding the best housing possible at the best possible price.
And from that point of view, Finding the Uncommon Deal is itself the best advice possible at the best possible price. It is exactly what it claims it can help you find.
Mr. Bailey obviously does not want you to be impressed with his oratory. He just wants to give you the practical advice you need to get the most bang for your buck. The book is tightly organized to meet that very goal, starting with the idea of getting yourself the money to make the deal and ending with the idea of how best to spend it.
I was fortunate to see the very earliest drafts of the book and to commend it to my daughter in her search for the home that best suited her needs. She knows Mr. Bailey personally, but instead of having to barrage him with a thousand questions, she had the luck to have a working copy of him safely lodged in her handbag.
There is nothing about this book to make its reader like Mr. Bailey. It is blunt, brusque, and to the point. It tells you things that polite people don’t want to hear about, like how to take advantage of the death of a neighbor, but in the end, it leaves you to figure out for yourself the answer to a simple moral question: Somebody is going to get that hot bargain; why shouldn’t it be you?
And that’s what the book is about, hot bargains, wise precautions, stepping up to the plate and taking appropriate risks while steering away from bad ones.
And, at the end of the day, when you have purchased your home for tens of thousands of dollars less than you would have paid without Mr. Bailey’s advice, you can lie back in your recliner in your living room and drink in the wonderful prose of Moby Dick.
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