| Selected Product: | Buying a Second Home: Income, Getaway or Retirement Paperback Author: Craig Venezia Publisher: NOLO Release Date: 2007-02-08 ISBN-10: 1413305563 ISBN-13: 9781413305562 List Price: $24.99 Average Customer Rating: | | How to Rent Vacation Properties by Owner Second Edition ISBN-10: 0974824992 ISBN-13: 9780974824994 List Price:$26.00 How a Second Home Can Be Your Best Investment: New, Tax-Free Methods for Using a Vacation Home for Recreation, Retirement...AND Investment! ISBN-10: 0071429700 ISBN-13: 0639785385059 List Price:$18.95 How a Second Home Can Be Your Best Investment: New, Tax-Free Methods for Using a Vacation Home for Recreation, Retirement...AND Investment! ISBN-10: 0071429700 ISBN-13: 9780071429702 List Price:$18.95 Second Homes for Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance)) ISBN-10: 0470105224 ISBN-13: 9780470105221 List Price:$19.99 The Second Homeowner's Handbook: A Complete Guide for Vacation, Income, Retirement, And Investment ISBN-10: 0910627746 ISBN-13: 9780910627740 List Price:$21.95 The Complete Guide to Second Homes for Vacation, Retirement, and Investment ISBN-10: 0471349674 ISBN-13: 9780471349679 List Price:$19.95 | To use our price comparison to get the cheapest price, please click on the "Find the Cheapest Price" button located above for Buying a Second Home: Income, Getaway or Retirement by Craig Venezia (ISBN-10: 1413305563, ISBN-13: 9781413305562). At this time we have not yet written a review for Buying a Second Home: Income, Getaway or Retirement by Craig Venezia (ISBN-10: 1413305563, ISBN-13: 9781413305562). Please continue to keep checking back to this page as we are constantly adding reviews. Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com Everything you need to know when hunting for a second home!
You don't have to be rich to buy a second home -- but you do need to be smart. Buying a Second Home delivers the smarts, showing how to make the purchase of your second home a success!
You'll learn how to identify an affordable price range, choose a great location, get low-cost financing, minimize taxes and more. Explore topics you won't find in other home-buying books, including:
innovative financing strategies how to rent your property profitably how to assess the investment potential of a fixer-upper choosing the right mortgage for you profiting from a second-home sale buying a home in foreclosure and much more
The CD-ROM is chockful of handy checklists and custom worksheets that help you make sense of the entire process.
If you're considering what could be the largest investment you'll make in your lifetime, be smart about it with Buying a Second Home. Easy to understand information | Customer Rating: | | This book delivers the often confusing financial and tax implications of owning investment properties in easy to understand language. Also good to couple with Second Homes for Dummies. | Buying a Second Home: Income, Getaway or Retirement | Customer Rating: | | Comprehensive treatment of second home subject. Readable, understandable, and broad in scope. | Extremely Helpful | Customer Rating: | I found this book to be extremely helpful. The author did a great job at breaking down complex information into easy-to-understand, everyday language. In particular, I found the budget worksheet (which also appears on the CD-ROM in the back of the book) to be great! It walked me through step-by-step how to create a realistic, affordable budget. This book is a must have for anyone thinking about buying a second home.
| Invaluable. | Customer Rating: | | The purchase of a second home for use as an income property, for vacation getaways, for retirement, is becoming more and more popular and no longer relegated to the upper income wealthy. Indeed, in today's market, two out of every five U.S. homes are purchased as a second residence. Craig Venezia is an authority on private mortgages and brings to bear his considerable experience and expertise in "Buying A Second Home: Income, Getaway Or Retirement", a comprehensive and detailed manual designed for the non-specialist general reader thinking about acquiring a second residence. Of special note are the 'Seven Secrets of Buying a Second Home' covering such fundamental issues as timing the purchase of a second home, budgeting for a second home, the importance of location, understanding tax consequences, nontraditional financing, renting to offset the expenses of purchase and maintenance, and protecting the investment that a second home represents. Accompanied by a CD containing useful checklists and custom worksheets for use when entering the market for a second residence, "Buying A Second Home" is essential, money-saving, investment enhancing, anxiety abating, fundamentally important reading for anyone contemplating the purchase of a second home for themselves that would be compatible with their financial resources and life style plans. | Appreciate Depreciation | Customer Rating: | | Easy book to understand the tax advantages (esp. depreciation) of buying a second home. Recommended. Couple with "How a Second Home Can Be Your Best Investment" for strategies in buying up. |
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