Winning the Home Buying Game

About the Book

A home buyers textbook provides the training to meet the buyersâ education certification requirements necessary to qualify for certain assisted home purchase programs. Promotes buyer brokers and especially exclusive buyer brokers as advocates for home buyers. Provides home purchase counseling in the home buying steps complete with glossary, index, and removable blank checklists, worksheets and examples, and buyer broker and offer to purchase contracts ready for copying for the buyer's personal use. Includes all text and .xls spreadsheets on a CD. It will help the home buyer get a better deal in his home purchase.

About the Author

Mel is retired. He is a graduate engineer and former; general contractor, life insurance salesman, Bureau of Land Management Realty Specialist, Realtor, and New Mexico licensed home buyer's real estate broker.

He graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1956 as an electrical engineer and subsequently progressed to communications engineer, general engineer and finally to supervisory civil engineer before retiring from engineering and going into real estate in 1972.

Most of Mel's experience prior to his first real estate license in 1972 was in federal service work closely related to real estate, consisting of engineering with parks and recreation, public health, safety and sanitation; construction contracting and contract surveillance and maintenance of commercial buildings, homes, and utilities associated with municipal infrastructures; subdivision planning and development; federal disaster claims appraising and adjusting; and preparation and review of environmental statements and land use planning.

After his retirement from civil service he became the first exclusive buyer broker in the state of New Mexico on February 2, 1988 and is one of the early pioneers in exclusive buyer brokers in the nation. Before retiring as an exclusive buyer broker he accumulated a total of over 14 years working only for home buyers.