You're Not Buying That House Are You? : Everything You May Forget to Do, Ask, or Think about Before Signing on the Dotted Line Book

	Preface	vii
	Acknowledgments	ix
1.	For Heaven's Sake, It's Just a House: Could you please dial back the anxiety just a little? Thank you	1
2.	Freeze!: Just put the book down and back away slowly. No one has to get hurt	7
3.	Calendar for a Spring-Summer Move: The express version of what to do and when to do it	15
4.	Buyers Are Liars: Really now, doesn't the bigger house better express the inner you?	31
5.	You're Not Buying That House Are You?: Never mind. Go ahead. Forget I said anything. (Giggle)	37
6.	Who Are All These Blundering Fools?: Are we including you in this group?	45
7.	Have Gun, Will Travel: Buyers: One agent is not enough, but two is way too many	53
8.	Pick a Card, Any Card at All: The alphabet soup of real estate	71
9.	Agent Etiquette: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you	79
10.	Corporate Relocation: Forget everything else you've read	85
11.	OK, Let's Look at You on Paper: No way around it, you're going to need money	91
12.	Fair Housing: Are you the discriminatee or the discriminator?	101
13.	Moving the Kids: Yes, you have to bring them with you	109
14.	The House Hunt: A game of hunters and the hunted, but you're not sure which one you are	117
15.	It's Your Property and You Can Do What You Want: Provided you submit your request to the neighborhood committee in triplicate, with each copy initialed by five neighbors, one of whom has to be a member of the board ...	131
16.	Negotiating the Deal: "You've got to give a little, take a little, let your poor heart break a little ..."	137
17.	Information Please: If a neighbor mows his lawn in the nude, how much more disclosure do you need?	145
18.	The Home Inspection: Time to get down and get dirty	151
19.	Your Neighbor May Be a Space Alien!: Here's how you can tell!	157
20.	The Close: Hasn't anyone here ever done this before?	165
21.	The Move: As simple or as complicated as you want it to be	171
22.	What If It All Goes Wrong?: "What we have here is a failure to communicate"	179
23.	See, That Wasn't So Bad: Wanna do it again on a vacation home?	185
24.	First, Get Moose and Squirrel: The shortest distance between you and success	191
Appendix	Ever Think about Becoming a Real Estate Agent?	195
	Glossary	199
	Index	217