Diary of a real estate rookie My year of flipping, selling, and rebuilding-- and what I learned (the hard way)
Book - 2007
- Subjects
- Published
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New York :
Kaplan Pub
2007.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 215 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBN
- 9781427754653
- Introduction: (An Idea of What You're Getting Into)
- Prologue: (In Which the Author Explains Her Midlife Crisis and Her Confidence That She Can Found a Business with $16,000)
- Part I. New Jersey
- 1. Back to School: (A Harvard Grad Gets the Beginnings of a Real Estate Education)
- 2. Learning to Drive: (Where Our Heroine Gets Asked for Heroin)
- 3. The Sheriff's Sale: (How Foreclosures Really Work)
- 4. Going Broke: (Precious Little Work, Worth Precious Little)
- 5. Media Inc.: (My Rich Client with the Jaguar Shops for a Summer Home)
- 6. Cramped: (An Outline of My Predicament)
- 7. A Wreck of a House at Christmas: (What the Crack Addicts Left Behind)
- 8. A New Year's Wish: (Meditations on the Death of Two Jersey Cops)
- 9. The Lowball Offer: (Trying to Knock a Seller into Reality)
- 10. The Estate Section House: (Tricks to Keep from Overpaying)
- 11. The "Come to Jesus" Letter: (Sometimes You Just Have to Punch Somebody in the Nose)
- 12. Shadowing Mr. Success: (A Jersey Broker's Tricks of the Trade)
- 13. The End of Jersey: (Admitting That "Flipping" Has Been a Total Failure)
- Part II. New York
- 14. Class, Again: (A Harvard-Educated Real Estate Agent Learns about UFOs)
- 15. Taking a Listing: (Things Every Smart Seller Should Know)
- 16. Staging the Bohemian Apartment: (Where to Put the Bong before the Open House)
- 17. Why Cheap Rentals Suck: (Meditations on Why Big-City Apartments Are Such a Rip-Off)
- 18. Breaking into a Suburban House: (That I Just Happened to Own)
- 19. Testing, Testing: (Do I Have the Personality of a Successful Agent?)
- 20. Clients, 90210: (Young Buyers and How to Be One)
- 21. Sellers Are Liars: (Some New Rules for Advertising)
- 22. Homeaphobia: (Buyers' Failure to Commit)
- 23. Freaking Out: (Maybe I'm a Little Stressed)
- 24. FSBO Chaos: (One Apartment, Three Prices)
- 25. Back to Work?: (In Which I Am Offered What Ten Years Ago Would Have Been My Dream Job)
- 26. Bored of the Boards: (What the Internet Can-and Can't-Do for You)
- 27. The Wedding Anniversary: (Meditations on Our First Year)
- 28. It Starts at $10,000 a Month: (The Business of Luxury Rentals)
- 29. Sneaker Technology: (My First Rental-A Celeb! It Looks Like I Might Just Make a Living at This)
- 30. The Golden Gate: (The Real Estate Conference/Vacation)
- 31. Coffee and Condos: (Great Customer Service Can't Be Faked)
- 32. Letting Go: (The Emotional Side of Selling a Home)
- 33. Sorry I Hid Your Underwear: (When Life in the Big City Gets Mischievous)
- 34. The Closing: (Wrapping Up the First Sale)
- 35. Out to Lunch: (Business Heats Up, at the Expense of a Friend)
- 36. The Deal That Wasn't: (Originally Titled "Jackpot!")
- Part III. More Tips From the Front Porch
- The Four Cs of Real Estate: (Learn Your Tradeoffs So You Can Shop Wisely)
- How to Talk to Your Realtor: (Who Should, Preferably, Be Me)
- Now This Is Living: (A Meditation on the $10 Million Home)
- Constant Renovations: (A House Is a Series of Leaks Held Together by Gutters)
- Credit Score Myths and Facts: (Surviving a Three-Year Fight with Citibank)
- Home Comforts: (Secrets to Coziness That Should Be Revived)
- Acknowledgments: (Thank You Thank You)