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    Table of Contents

    Home Buying For Dummies®, 4th Edition

    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    About This Book: The Eric Tyson/Ray Brown Difference

    Conventions Used in This Book

    How This Book Is Organized

    Part I: Home Economics

    Part II: Financing 101

    Part III: Property, Players, and Prices

    Part IV: Making the Deal

    Part V: The Part of Tens

    Part VI: Appendixes

    Icons Used in This Book

    Where to Go from Here

    Part I: Home Economics

    Chapter 1: Deciding Whether to Buy

    Weighing the Advantages of Owning versus Renting

    Ownership advantages

    Renting advantages

    The Pitfalls of the Rent-versus-Buy Decision

    Renting because it seems cheaper

    Fretting too much over job security

    Buying when you expect to move soon

    Succumbing to pushy salespeople

    Ignoring logistics

    Overbuying

    Underbuying


      

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