With more than 250,000 books in print, syndicated real estate columnist Peter G. Miller really knows the FHA program. This handy guide looks at the FHA mortgage program and appraisals, credit scores, successful loan applications, flipping,reverse mortgages, buy-and-repair financing, Title 1 loans, insurance premiums, refunds, streamline refinancing, down payments, “seller contributions” and much more.

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Who killed the economy?

A page-turning, true-crime exposé of the subprime salesmen and Wall Street alchemists who produced the biggest financial scandal in American history

“It’s hard to have a guilty conscience if you don’t have a conscience. Anything that benefited production - that benefited me and benefited my wallet - I’d do it.”

The sales force at Ameriquest Mortgage took this philosophy to heart. They watched the Hollywood white-collar-crime flick “Boiler Room” as a training tape, studying how to pitch overpriced deals to unsuspecting home owners. They learned how to forge signatures on mortgage paperwork and create fake documents in “cut-and-paste” operations they dubbed “The Lab” or “The Art Department.”

In this stunning narrative, award-winning reporter Michael W. Hudson reveals the story of the rise and fall of the subprime mortgage business by chronicling the rise and fall of two corporate empires: Ameriquest and Lehman Brothers. As the biggest subprime lender and Wall Street’s biggest patron of subprime, Ameriquest and Lehman did more than any other institutions to create the feeding frenzy that emboldened mortgage pros to flood the nation with high-risk, high-profit home loans.

It’s a tale populated by a remarkable cast of the characters: a shadowy billionaire who created the subprime industry out of the ashes of the 1980s S&L scandal; Wall Street executives with an insatiable desire for product; struggling home owners ensnared in the most ingenious of traps; lawyers and investigators who tried to expose the fraud; politicians and bureaucrats who turned a blind eye; and, most of all, the drug-snorting, high-living salesman who tell all about the money they made, the lies they told, the deals they closed.

Provocative and gripping, The Monster is a searing exposé of the bottom-feeding fraud and top-down greed that fueled the financial collapse.

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5 Stars Comprehensive, clear and to the point
The author takes you through each step of Financing residential real estate and slowly builds on your knowlege. In addition at the end of each Chapter (there are 15) the author gives quizes and exercises to test and review what you have learnt.

5 Stars Comprehensive, clear and to the point
The author takes you through each step of Financing residential real estate and slowly builds on your knowlege. In addition at the end of each Chapter (there are 15) the author gives quizes and exercises to test and review what you have learnt.

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