Linneman said there are many
studies about home buying that show the down payment is the issue not the mortgage payment and disputes the whole people buy a monthly payment thing.
Not exact matches
According to its
study, «As higher income consumers feel more confident
about the economy, many will choose to dine out or
buy fresh food to cook at
home.
The
study's findings
about more than 1,000 Latin American / Hispanic women ages 25 to 60 revealed that 91 percent of respondents surveyed considered
buying a
home the best financial investment they could make.
«Think
about how you feel when you come
home from
buying something new,» explains Thomas Gilovich, professor of psychology at Cornell University and co-author the new
study published online in a recent issue of the journal Emotion.
Buying, selling, or making renovations to a
home is
about as emotionally stressful as illness, death, car repairs, marriage, or birth, according to a Texas A&M University
study that ranks «high - emotion events» in a person's life.
For
about $ 1,000, practitioners can
buy a
home -
study course in working with FSBOs and marketing their services, a consultation, and a license to use his program and materials.
If you
study this course carefully, you'll know more
about the
home buying process than the vast majority of
home buyers, whether first - time
home buyers or not, whether
buying from their landlords or not.
I
bought my first rental in 1998, while earning only $ 8 / hour at my full - time job, and after one year of
study, reading, listening, boring my co-workers to death with my constant talk
about real estate investing, and looking at every house for sale within a 3 - mile radius of my
home.
Let's be realistic
about the psychology of
home buying and what determines
buying power because that's what impacts
home prices, not expensive
studies funded by special interest groups (yes, I'm kind of calling out the National Association of REALTORS for fear mongering).
Another case
study focused on Social Media and how real estate professionals can quickly build a presence that makes them a likely source for
home buyers to find when looking for information
about buying or selling a
home.