All about Escrow and Real Estate Closings: Or How to Buy the Brooklyn Bridge and Have the Last Laugh (Complete Guide to Your Real Estate Closing) [Paperback]

Sandy Gadow (Author, Illustrator)

Book Description

Series: Complete Guide to Your Real Estate Closing | Publication Date: March 1999

All About Escrow and Real Estate Closings leads you through the escrow and closing process, from opening escrow to the closing statements. Whether you are a first-time homebuyer or a real estate professional, All About Escrow and Real Estate Closings is an essential tool in understanding the escrow and closing process. This 233-page guidebook leads you step-by-step through the entire transaction from seeking financing to holding title to closing the deal.

In short, All About Escrow and Real Estate Closings will answer all your escrow and closing questions, filling a nice that no other book fills, giving you a better understanding of how your real estate transaction works and of what your closing officer or agent should be doing for you and of what questions you should be asking.

Editorial Reviews

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...a sprightly and attractive handbook...truly a comprehensive guide to this necessary rite of passage, written for the layperson but detailed enough to be of aid to the real estate professional. -- San Diego Union

...an Invaluable reference. It explains in understandable detail everything that goes on from initial agreement to close. -- The Real estate Professional

An easy to read book.... In addition to escrow information, provides advice about inspections, financing, condominiums, and cooperatives. -- Los Angeles Times

From the Author

Closing on a house can be more confusing than actually buying it. There are papers to sign, checks to write and documents to scrutinize before they are etched in stone. It is the most important part of buying a home, but one which is least understood. What is escrow? What will you need to know at your closing? Will you be able to save money at closing? How will you know which questions to ask and when to ask them? With more and more property buyers and sellers becoming involved in the closing cycle of their real estate transaction and taking charge of the fees they must pay at closing, buyers and sellers have the right to know what questions to ask and when to ask them.

My book will help you through your real estate purchase or sale and beyond. I have helped thousands of people buy and sell homes, and save money in the process. Let All About Escrow and Real Estate Closings help you.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 233 pages
• Publisher: Escrow Publishing Company; 6th edition (March 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0965291715
• ISBN-13: 978-0965291712
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #814,570 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is a 'MUST HAVE" for anyone buying or selling real, May 25, 1999

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This review is from: All about Escrow and Real Estate Closings: Or How to Buy the Brooklyn Bridge and Have the Last Laugh (Complete Guide to Your Real Estate Closing) (Paperback)

A reader from Punta Gorda, Florida...May 1999

This book is a 'MUST HAVE" for anyone buying or selling real estate. The down to earth way the book is written makes each detail understandable. This book is unquestionably the best source of information for escrow. It is loaded with information which will help property buyers and sellers avoid a host of potentially serious problems which may occur in escrow and closing. This book saved me money and told me exactly what questions to ask.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book. Simplifed the real estate process for me., October 21, 1999

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Kristen Kanelos (Boulder,Colorado) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All about Escrow and Real Estate Closings: Or How to Buy the Brooklyn Bridge and Have the Last Laugh (Complete Guide to Your Real Estate Closing) (Paperback)

This book is fantastic. It really changed the escrow process for me. By simplifing the buying and selling network my escrow went allot easyer. Because of this book I knew which questions to ask and ended up saving allot of money. I would advise to anyone thinking about going through escrow to read this book. It will save you allot of time, energy and expenses.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars There is no other book with complete closing information, March 9, 2003

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Real Estate Investor (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All about Escrow and Real Estate Closings: Or How to Buy the Brooklyn Bridge and Have the Last Laugh (Complete Guide to Your Real Estate Closing) (Paperback)

I read this fine book, that is so correctly titled. This book is "All About Escrow and Real Estate Closing." Every aspect of the closing from pro-ration of taxes, title insurance, holding title, and closing statement are included in this book. In addition there is an appendix which in 1 paragraph for each of the 50 states outlines the settlement procedures in each and every state. There is also 10 pages of blank forms in the back of the book, which are suitable for copying and using. The book is easy to read taking a complicated and foreign subject and breaking it down and explaining it. It comes as no surprise that this book is used by real estate schools and professionals. Every real estate professional should have a copy and read it as well as use it for reference. If you ever had questions about a real estate closing, those questions are probably answered by this book. If you are only ever going to buy one or two properties this book is going to be over kill, but if your plans include buying multiple properties and you are a real estate investor, then this book will be a helpful tool in your real estate toolbox.

The illustrator is Dave Patton, who also did fine work in Leigh Robinson's excellent book "Landlording".

My only reservation is that some aspects of settlement are handled differently in different states and locales, that everything could not be covered in this book. There is no standard for settlements in different states and some states use different documents. Also some states have a simultaneous closing whereas others have the buyer and seller go to settle at different times.