Beginner's Guide to the Housing Credit


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"This book is intended for professionals who are beginning the process of learning about the federal low-income housing tax credit (Housing Credit, also known as LIHTC)"--




Beginner's Guide to the Housing Credit


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This book is intended for professionals who are beginning the process of learning about the federal low-income housing tax credit ("Housing Credit," also known as LIHTCs). Even the most capable student cannot obtain a working knowledge by reading one, or even several publications on the subject. The rules and practices are too complex, particularly for compliance. But every journey starts somewhere, and this book will help with your first application/allocation/closing/property--whichever role brings you to this industry.




Ultimate Beginners Guide to Real Estate Investing Financing


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Most people who want to get started with Real Estate Investing, have no idea how to get started. Or worse, they have some idea how to get started but it is the wrong strategy for them. This book provides an overview of how to get financing for your Real Estate Investments. This book is NOT a practical approach to Real Estate Investing financing and the reader is NOT expected to be able to get real estate financing after completing this book. In this book, you will learn enough information to be able to get started financing your real estate investment.




The Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing


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In this fact-filled handbook, successful real estate investor and author Eldred gives concise and straightforward advice on avoiding common mistakes and achieving uncommon success in the housing market.




Beginner's Guide to Building Wealth Buying Houses


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Trading in the ?daily grind? and living a life of financial independence is simpler to do than you might think. With this new model for real estate investing success, you will transform the way you think about investing and you will set your course towards financial independence. Finally, you will have the time, money, and peace of mind to leave the ?rat-race? behind and live the life you have always dreamed of living. This is the last real estate investing book you will ever need!You will discover how to:Turn inexpensive houses into ?virtual money-machines? that consistently churn out returns of over 400%!Start with a small nest-egg and parlay it into several hundred thousand dollars of equity in as little as 24 months ? part time!Completely avoid the risks and hassles of landlording!Generate large up-front payments from your tenants that you can use to purchase even more properties!Negotiate leases where your tenants willingly accept the majority of responsibility for upkeep and repairs!Build competition amongst prospective tenants and have them clamoring to pay you above market rents!Comes complete with forms, checklists, and a comprehensive list of resources ? all that you need to build a personal wealth creation action-plan!




Income Averaging


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Housing Choice


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Beginners Guide to Goldwork


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This popular book by Ruth Chamberlin now returns as a Search Press Classic, with an updated design and preface on the author by the illustrious embroiderer Mary Corbet. A needle art that dates back over a thousand years, goldwork embroidery involves sewing with lavish metal threads. It has been prized and often used by religious orders and royal households for its opulence and the way the light glimmers and plays on the beautiful metallic designs. Those in love with this brilliant style of embroidery can now create their own with easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide. Through calm and deliberate instruction, Chamberlin's book aims to teach the reader how to create a personal sampler - a piece of embroidery containing a mixture of designs and stitches, which shall provide a basis for future projects and enable readers to continue on their goldwork journey. With multiple stitch techniques - from simple laid stitch to the more complex basket stitch, several design motifs with corresponding templates that can be used, and a luminous gallery of finished work interspersed throughout, Chamberlin's work gently introduces beginners to the exquisite needle art of goldwork embroidery.




The Complete Guide to Real Estate Finance for Investment Properties


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This practical, real-world guide gives investors all the tools they need to make wise decisions when weighing the value and potential of investment properties. Written for old pros as well as novice investors, this friendly, straightforward guide walks readers step by step through every stage of property analysis. Whether you're buying or selling, investing in big commercial properties or single-family rentals, you'll find expert guidance and handy resources on every aspect of real estate finance, including: * Proven, effective valuation techniques * Finance tips for all different kinds of property * How various financing strategies affect investments * Structuring financial instruments, including leverage, debt, equity, and partnerships * Measurements and ratios for investment performance, including capitalization rates and gross rent multiplier ratios * Future and present value analysis * How the appraisal process works * Primary appraisal methods-replacement cost, sales comparison, and income capitalization-and how to know which one to use * How to understand financial statements, including income, balance, and cash flow * Case studies for single-family rentals, multifamily conversions, apartment complexes, and commercial office space * A detailed glossary of important real estate terminology




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buying a Home


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In real estate, it's a buyer's market—and here is the buyer's bible . . . Buying a home is the single most important financial move in most people's lives. This book covers a variety of topics including inspecting, evaluating, negotiating, financing, contracts, and legal issues. It also breaks down the roles of the key players and what these professionals, agents, brokers, and inspectors are responsible for—and when to go it alone. The thorough advice, covering everything from buying houses at auctions to what neighborhood to live in, will provide reassurance for every soon–to–be homeowner. • A necessary tool for those who plan to buy homes and even current homeowners in order to keep up with an ever changing market • Will be published in time for spring, when most people start looking into buying new homes • Covers a broad range of buying options and homeowner's needs