First-Time Home Buyer

By Scott Trench & Mindy Jensen

First-Time Home Buyer

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By Scott Trench & Mindy Jensen

Start the home-buying process with your eyes wide open—and outsmart the world’s most common financial trap!

Buying a house is more than just trading money for a deed. Between choosing your real estate agent and lender, picking the right neighborhood, and finally, choosing the house itself, you're suddenly making more decisions than you ever thought possible. All this while trying to keep a level head for what may be the biggest purchase of your life!

Speaking of big purchases—buying a house isn’t always a good investment. Your home can either be a destroyer of wealth and freedom or a generator of the same. This book will show you not only how to afford your first home, but also how to make a decision that gives you the most financial flexibility possible.

Scott Trench and Mindy Jensen of the BiggerPockets Money Podcast have been buying and selling houses for a collective thirty years. In First-Time Home Buyer, they’ll give you a comprehensive overview of the home-buying process so you can consider all of your options and avoid pitfalls while jumping into the big, bad role of homeowner.

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Steps you can take (and early decisions you can make) to turn your first home into a future cash-flowing investment
How much house can you actually afford—AKA, not the breaking point of your budget
When to buy a house, renting vs. buying, and everything else you should know about the housing market
How to get your financial “house” in order while preparing for your big purchase (See what we did there?)
Fixer upper houses and home renovation—are they really worth it?
What to look for when buying a house, and what to absolutely avoid
How to choose a real estate agent and a lender that have your best interests in mind
ALL the steps to buying a house—from loan pre-approval, to submitting offers, to home inspections, to the closing process, and everything in between!

Rent vs. Buy Spreadsheet—Enter your own information and find out exactly when it's a good idea to take the house-buying leap!
Lender Comparison Spreadsheet—Keep track of all the information in one place and compare apples to apples when choosing a lender
A printable copy of the Self-Directed Home Inspection Checklist included in the book
Multiple checklists that aren't included in the book—things to do before starting the home-buying process, questions to ask when interviewing agents, everything to do while under contract, and more!
EXCLUSIVE to the BiggerPockets Bookstore: Five homebuyer interviews with Scott and Mindy—Was it a good deal? What went right and what went wrong?

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About the Authors

Scott Trench is CEO of BiggerPockets, co-host of the BiggerPockets Money Podcast, a real estate investor and broker, and a bestselling author of Set for Life. Through a solid understanding of money management, calculated risks, and a lot of hard work, he created financial freedom for himself as well as a successful real estate business just three years after graduating college. Scott currently lives in Denver, Colorado and enjoys skiing, rugby, craft beers, and terrible punny jokes.

Mindy Jensen has been buying and selling homes for more than twenty years. Currently, she’s working on her ninth live-in flip—she buys ugly houses, moves in, makes them beautiful, sells them, and starts the process all over again. She is a licensed real estate agent in Colorado, co-host of the BiggerPockets Money Podcast, author of How to Sell Your Home, and the Community Manager for BiggerPockets.com, where she helps new and experienced investors learn the best real estate investing techniques to build wealth. When you can get her to stop talking about real estate, you can find her on her bike or adventuring in the beautiful mountains of Colorado.