Easier to maintain and more affordable in hard economic times, small houses are gaining popularity in the housing market after nearly 60 years of trending up in size. "Small Houses" capitalizes on this shift with an all-new collection of small houses from "Fine Homebuilding" magazine. Homeowners will be pleasantly surprised that these small homes are big on charm, style, and quality, and offer all types of exciting possibilities and energy efficiencies to mesh with and improve their lifestyle.

Finally, a Planner Created Just for You!

Dear Agent,

This Real Estate Action Planner will help you maximize your time so you can become a successful real estate agent. This agenda has several tools you will need in your career. You will need to be motivated, learn how to take decisive action, and maintain a positive attitude. This planner has everything you'll need to manage your time, stay focused, and motivate yourself in your real estate goals.

You will have an annual goal that corresponds to the four types of vision goals, as well as your own monthly vision goals and your monthly and weekly affirmations to stay motivated to achieve your desired results. Jump in any time of the year with undated monthly and weekly calendars.

• A 12-month undated calendar to take immediate action
• A 52-week undated planner
• An operation plan
• An action plan
• A monthly log of calls: realized goals, what you learned, and results
• Notes
• Vision board (four different types of models)
• 12 Month Vision
• To do list
• Business debut timetable (blank)
• A customer form for your business debut
• Open House sign in form
• Checklist for buyers/tenants
• Checklist for sellers/landlords
• Form for buyers/tenants to choose the property
• Questionnaires to uncover hidden challenges and opportunities

If you think that you'll never get a first foot onto the UK property ladder, think again! This readable guide shows you how to buy your first home without having to borrow more than you can afford. Clued-up first-time buyers will understand the pros and cons of a wide range of alternative routes to home ownership, from the legal intricacies of buying with friends to part-rent part-ownership schemes. It's the biggest financial decision of your life and it's tough at today's prices, but if you're prepared to compromise a little then there are plenty of options.

Deciding Where to Live: Information Studies on Where to Live in America explores major themes related to where to live in America, not only about the acquisition of a home but also the ways in which where one lives relates to one's cultural identity. It shows how changes in media and information technology are shaping both our housing choices and our understanding of the meaning of personal place. The work is written using widely accessible language but supported by a strong academic foundation from information studies and other humanities and social science disciplines. Chapters analyze everyday information behavior related to questions about where to live. The eleven major chapters are: Chapter 1: Where to live as an information problem: three contemporary examples Chapter 2: Turning in place: Real estate agents and the move from information custodians to information brokers Chapter 3: The Evolving Residential Real Estate Information Ecosystem: The Rise of Zillow Chapter 4: Privacy, Surveillance, and the "Smart Home" Chapter 5: This Old House, Fixer Upper, and Better Homes & Gardens: The Housing Crisis and Media Sources Chapter 6: A Community Responds to Growth: An Information Story About What Makes for a Good Place to Live." Chapter 7: The Valley Between Us: The meta-hodology of racial segregation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Chapter 8: Modeling Hope: Boundary Objects and Design Patterns in a Heartland Heterotopia Chapter 9: Home buying in Everyday Life: How Emotion and Time Pressure Shape High Stakes Deciders' Information Behavior Chapter 10: In Search of Home: Examining Information Seeking and Sources That Help African Americans Determine Where to Live Chapter 11: Where to Live in Retirement: A Complex Information Problem While the book is partly about the goal-directed activity of individuals who want to buy a house, and the infrastructure that supports that activity, it is also about personal activities that are either not goal directed or are directed at other goals such as deciding in which geographic location to live, personal entertainment, cultural understanding, or identity formation.

Execute like a master and build wealth like the pros with the hottest strategy in the real estate world (David Osborn, New York Times bestselling author) and learn how to invest, flip houses, and buy rental properties without ever running out of money!

Real estate investors used to build wealth the hard way: slowly saving money and sacrificing their current happiness for a future reward. This method produces results in the long run but what if there's a better, more efficient way that works in years instead of decades?

Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat (BRRRR) is the five-part real estate investing strategy that makes financial freedom more attainable than ever: You buy a property under market value, add value with renovations, rent it out to tenants, complete a cash-out refinance, and then use that money to do it all over again. In this book, author and investor David Greene shares the exact systems he used to scale his real estate business from buying two houses per year to buying two houses per month using BRRRR.

This easy-to-follow plan will grow your money quickly without letting a lack of cash get in the way of pulling it off. With this method, youll create wealth with real estate investment properties and BRRRR your way to financial independence!

Inside, you'll discover:

• A solid plan for getting started, even with limited capital
• How to identify target properties and emerging markets destined for huge growth
• Negotiation tactics for making offers that get accepted
• How to recover 100% (or more) of your money in a deal
• Unique ways to increase a property's value (and your own net worth)
• How to recruit top talent to work on your deals (so they build wealth for you!)
• And so much more!

Discover the path to financial freedom with this step-by-step guide to house hacking--the simple real estate investment strategy that lets you live for free and earn income. For most people, rent or a mortgage takes up the largest chunk of their income. But with house hacking, that piece can come down to virtually zero--and it's easier than you'd think! In its simplest form, house hacking is the real estate investment strategy where you buy a multifamily house and rent it out to cover your costs and live for free. But this can come in all shapes and sizes, whether it be inviting in roommates, owning multiple properties, live-in flips, vacation rentals, or even participating in Airbnb. In The Everything Guide to House Hacking, you will learn: -The pros and cons of house hacking -The minimum you need to get started -What a smart investment looks like -Whether renovating is worth it -How to be a responsible landlord -How to find responsible tenants -And more! Discover everything you want to know about homeownership and how you can build wealth from your investment properties. The path to financial freedom starts here.

Don't leave the success of your investment up to a visit to your accountant once a year -- this book could save you hundreds

In print for over 10 years, "Rental Property and Taxation "debunks the many myths surrounding tax and real estate investment, and takes an objective look at how a loss from a rental property can affect your tax situation.

In this fully updated fourth edition, practising accountant Tony Compton arms rental property owners and would-be owners with the information they need to be better informed about tax as it relates to their own circumstances. It covers all aspects of rental property ownership, including: allowable deductionsdecline in value and construction cost write-offsnegative and positive gearingrecord keepingstructures and ownership, and more

With its plain-English explanations, real-life case studies and the latest updates to tax laws, "Rental Property and Taxation "will take the 'buy now and hope for the best' factor out of tax planning for rental property investments.

For those looking to raise a family in a storybook American town, or a change of pace from hectic city life, this book is the answer. It includes information on: the cost of the home, recreation facilities, cost of electricity, schools, sales tax rates, per capita income, geography and climate, and a host of other pertinent information about the nicest, most affordable, cosiest towns in the US Even includes interviews with town officials, librarians, teachers, shop owners, and other residents. An excellent resource that will never be out of style.

Real estate agents and other investors who need money to close their purchases often use private lending as their main source for funding. Unfortunately, many private lenders take advantage of this. They use unethical and illegal tactics to persuade investors to pay fees to obtain loans. For this reason, investors need guidance from an expert who knows the language and the processes these imposters use. Truth in Private Lending gives detailed accounts of how private lending scammers typically operate, and advice on how to keep them from getting your money.