Need Guide to Real Estate Buy and Sell in Calif. - Posted by Merchant Marine

import · January 10, 2003, 3:46am

Posted by MoniqueUSA on January 10, 2003 at 07:09:20:

I don’t know if a “Detailed Guide to Real Estate Investing in California” exists. If it does exists, I’m not sure how it could be 50 pages or less.

Consider doing this…

Learn the general concepts about buying real estate from resources that may not be unique to CA law
(e.g., good books, articles here at CREonline, courses, the CREonline Convention)
Learn about some of the differences about CA law by joining your local Real Estate Investors Association (you can find a club near you at http://www.creonline.com/real-estate-clubs/index.html
Once you have a better understanding about the business, it would then be worth your while to pay an attorney to review your paperwork and give you counsel on CA specific laws. Ask the investor colleagues you meet at the next REIA club meeting which attorney these use.

MoniqueUSA

import · January 10, 2003, 3:46am

Need Guide to Real Estate Buy and Sell in Calif. - Posted by Merchant Marine

Posted by Merchant Marine on January 10, 2003 at 04:46:25:

There seem to be so many details involved in buying and selling real estate that it gives me a headache just thinking about it. Does anyone know of any detailed guide somewhere on the Internet or somewhere else that can give a brief (like 50 pages or less) but detailed description on the precise steps involved in the actual process not theory of buying and selling real estate in California.

import · January 10, 2003, 1:19pm

books on buying CA homes - Posted by Ronald * Starr(in No CA)

Posted by Ronald * Starr(in No CA) on January 10, 2003 at 14:19:52:

Merchant Marine–(CA)---------------

Here are two or three good books on the topic. But no publisher will meet your request for 50 pages. They want to charge high pricese, so the books are probably about 200-250 pages.

How to Buy a House in California (How to Buy a House in California, 8th Ed) by Ralph E. Warner, Ira Serkes, George Devine, Linda Allison (Illustrator), Ilona Bray (Editor)

Apparently not in publication anymore, maybe you can find a used volume:
Buying and Selling a Home in California: A Complete Guide by Dian Hymer

Or maybe this one supercedes the one above?
Starting Out: The Complete Home Buyer’s Guide
by Dian Davis Hymer

Good InvestingRon Starr**

import · January 10, 2003, 11:47am

Re: Need Guide - Posted by Dave

Posted by Dave on January 10, 2003 at 12:47:29:

Not sure exactly what you’re looking for, but Nolo (www.nolo.com) has some books on CA real estate.

For Sale by Owner in CA
Deed for CA Real Estate
Buy a House in CA
Etc

import · January 10, 2003, 9:40am

It does exist! - Posted by John Merchant

Posted by John Merchant on January 10, 2003 at 10:40:02:

“Owner Will Carry” by Broadbent & Rosenberg is a terrific manual on buying & selling CA RE. Very popular and maybe on sale on this site. But if not, Amazon, etc. sure has it. Mine is '98 edition and it may have been updated since then.

It’s been widely heralded as one of the best RE “how to” books ever and I’d sure agree.