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The Rudiments of Real Estate: Homeownership Revised Edition

By: Thomas F. Ravert
Narrated by: Brian Block Swanson
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Summary
 In The Rudiments of Real Estate: Homeownership, Thomas F. Ravert distills forty years spent on every side of a housing transaction - as an appraiser, an underwriter, a lender, a workout specialist, and a CFP® financial planner - into a plain-language guide for the person about to make the largest purchase of their life.Ravert's method is simple: take the two things buyers quietly confuse and pull them apart. A fixed payment versus a fixed housing cost. Market value versus replacement cost. A home you can afford versus one that will slowly sink you. Around those distinctions he builds a working path - reading a buyer's or a seller's market, getting your financial house in order, running your own comparison of recent sales, making an offer you can defend, and sidestepping the fraud and the preventable errors that cost buyers the most. Short, true stories from his own files carry the lessons: a HELOC that arrived during maternity leave, a squatter living in a foreclosed home, a data center that quietly erased a neighborhood's value.Written for the first-time buyer and the seller alike - and, quietly, as a wake-up call to an industry that too often fails them - this is an honest companion for anyone who wants to own a home on purpose, with their eyes open.©2026 Thomas F Ravert (P)2026 Thomas F Ravert Real Estate
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