Is your goal a full-time or part-time career in real estate? Do<br >you own or plan to own your home or an investment property?<br >Are w~u a student of real estate desiring to broaden your<br >knowledge of this subject? If you answered "Yes" to one or<br >more of these， the contents of this book will be of immense<br >help to you.<br > In this book you will learn about real estate brokerage， ap-<br >praisal， financing， contracts， closings and investing. Addition-<br >ally， you will learn about iand descriptions， rights and interests，<br >fair housing， taxes， leases， condominiums， zoning， careers and<br >licensing and the use of computers in real estate. You will find<br >particularly valuable the attention given to such timely topics<br >as a real estate agent s liability and professional obligation to<br >buyers and sellers， brokers who represent buyers， advance fee<br >listings， errors and omission insurance， foreclosure and time-<br >sharing. Included throughout the book are numerous examples<br >from actual practice， including important decisions in several<br >recent court cases.<br > Throughout this book emphasis is placed on an easily<br >readable style of writing that will take yon by the hand and<br >lead you through the chapters in a pleasant and enjoyable ex-<br >perience. You will find emphasis placed on explanations that<br >combine "how" things are done in real estate with "why" they<br >are done. Numerous tables， sketches and diagrams will help<br >you to visualize real estate rights and interests， financing tech-<br > niques， appraisal methods， closing statements and map read-<br > ing. Simplified， plain English examples of real estate<br > documents are used so their key elements can be easily identi-<br > fied and not lost in a maze of legal language. Warranty deeds，<br > grant deeds， quitclaim deeds， trust deeds， title insurance poli-<br > cies， promissory notes and mortgages are among the docu-<br > ments so treated.<br > Starting with Chapter 2， key real estate terms are listed and<br > defined at the beginning of each chapter in addition to being xvii<br >