10 Secrets to Successful Home Buying and Selling : Using Your Housing Psychology to Make Smarter Decisions

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Summary: Housing Decisions
Review: At last a book that entertains you while giving solid information. I especially like the way this author uses flesh and blood real people to illustrate her points. I'm halfway through already in one day --maybe I'll write another when I finish it.

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Summary: A Remarkable Effort
Review: I have worked with Dr. Vitt for many years, and I am always amazed when the final product arrives. This book is just one of many of the remarkable things she has written, but this book alone has been the greatest help to me in deciding to refinance my home, an idea I had been toying with for a long time. After rereading it for pleasure and learning, rather than editing, I have learned a great deal more about the dynamics of buying, selling or refinancing my own home, and for this I am grateful to Dr. Vitt. This book should be a great help to anyone who is considering any kind of housing change.

V. Karen McMahon

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Summary: Housing and Happiness
Review: I purchased this book on the advice of a friend. After determining my housing profile I purchased ten additional copies as holiday gifts for colleagues. This book is the first of it's kind and will assist you in understanding how your housing decisions are made and how to make your home a place of happiness and not only financial but emotional security. I found myself highlighting passages as I went along for quick future reference. I would highly recommend this book to anyone - no matter what your living/financial situation.

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Summary: Housing History
Review: My husband and I were struggling to decide whether or not to buy an investment house. We both had a lot of apprehensions based on past memories, experiences, and "warnings" from our parents who lived through the Great Depression. The chapter in this book on "Your Housing History" helped us understand our motives and make a more rational decision. Happily, we are the new owners of an investment house. This book is a great balance between the emotional and practical aspects of home buying!

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Summary: readable and so worthwhile
Review: This book is very interesting, easy to read and full of useful and surprising insights. It was helpful in thinking about if I should move. And it offered a wonderful way of looking at this decision and analyzing my feelings and my options. Whatever stage of the housing process you are in, this book is going to help.

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Summary: Yippee!! I made the decision...
Review: to stay in my house! Having recently gone through a divorce, and somewhat uncomfortable with my neighborhood, which has a very different demographic from mine, I struggled with how I could manage the house on my own, and finance numerous small and large repairs without taking on too much debt.

After taking the quiz, I realized that the financial stability of my house is the most important factor I needed to satisfy. Once I realized that...it was much easier to invest a few thousand dollars to update the furnishings and to make the house more like a home that reflected my personality. I was also able to take on additional debt to make some costly, but necessary repairs, such a new foundation and sewer line. In doing so, I found a way to restructure my entire debt load that allows me one smaller monthly payment, leaving me with a greater monthly cash flow.

I can honestly say that I wouldn't have had the courage to undertake the repairs, and take on the additional debt, if I hadn't read this book. Having a clear insight into my issues surrounding "home" and understanding more clearly my emotional profile, I was able to make my need structure work in my favor, instead of against me. Without this book, I would probably have sold the house at a discount, and made another, equally unsatisfying move.