All about Mortgages: Insider Tips to Finance or Refinance Your Home

by Julie Garton-Good

Offers an overview of the mortage market, tells how to check credit reports and understand credit scoring, and discusses how to use the Internet to obtain mortgage financing. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0793132312
• ISBN13: 9780793132317
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Kaplan Publishing
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

a must for home buyers and sellers

The process of buying a home is surely daunting and this book is very helpful on clarifying the scene before you get into the game without knowing what is going on around you. Although the market has changed a bit lately with interest-only loans and other new lending products, this book will provide you with the fundamentals of dealing with mortgage brokers and will help you decide for yourself, what is right fo you.

The best I've read

This is the 7th book on mortgages and home buying I've read in the last month or so and this is by far the best. Head and shoulders above the others

Great mortgage book

I'm a programmer analyst for a mortgage company. However, the one year experience I had working for a mortgage company with all the ongoing trainings and mortgage software application designs are nothing compared to this book. This is a great book with all info you need to know about mortgages. Would recommend to anyone.All I can say is this is a great book, that is equivalent to 3 years of mortgage experience.

Great Reference Book!

This book is a great book for consumers as well as real estate professionals. You will definitely want to keep it close by to reference information about FHA, VA and conventional loans. It is easy to forget some of the details about differnt loans but Ms. Garton-Good has made it easy to look up information such as who can pay closing costs on VA loans and does the veteran have to pay the funding fee. Having a list of closing costs FHA borrowers are allowed to pay or not pay is also very helpful. This book answers a lot of questions you probably wanted to know but may have been afraid to ask! I would recommend anyone thinking about buying or selling real estate and all real estate professionals make this book a part of their reference library right away.

This book is the reason I'm a homeowner

My friend loaned me a copy of this book to read before applying for a loan. I had credit problems in the past and thought it was impossible to obtain a mortgage. After taking the steps the author suggested in checking my credit and removing the errors I found, I sailed through the mortgage process and am now a home owner. Thank you, Ms. Garton-Good, for helping me make this happen!