Nolo's essential guide to buying your first home

What's so great about buying a house?

What do you want? Figuring out your homebuying needs

Does this mean I have to balance my checkbook? Figuring out what you can afford

What's on the market and at what price

Select your players: your real estate team

Bring home the bacon: getting a mortgage

Mom and dad? The seller? Uncle Sam? Loan alternatives

I love it! It's perfect! Looking for the right house

Plan B: fixer-uppers, FSBOs, foreclosures, and more

Show them the money: from offer to purchase agreement

Toward the finish line: tasks before closing

Send in the big guns: professional property inspectors

Who's got your back? Homeowners' insurance and home warranties

Seal the deal: finalizing your homebuying dreams

Settling into your new home.

What's so great about buying a house?

What do you want? Figuring out your homebuying needs

Does this mean I have to balance my checkbook? Figuring out what you can afford

Stepping out: what's on the market and at what price

Select your players: the real estate team

Bring home the bacon: getting a mortgage

Mom and Dad? The seller? Uncle Sam? Loan alternatives

I love it! It's perfect! Looking for the right house

Plan B: fixer-uppers, FSBOs, foreclosures, and more

Show them the money: from offer to purchase agreement

Toward the finish line: tasks before closing

Send in the big guns: professional property inspectors

Who's got you back? Homeowner's insurance and home warranties

Seal the deal: finalizing your homebuying dreams.

Your homebuying companion

What's so great about buying a house?

What do you want? Figuring out your homebuying needs

Does this mean I have to balance my checkbook? Figuring out what you can afford

Stepping out : what's on the market and at what price

Select your players : the real estate team

Bring home the bacon : getting a mortgage

Mom and dad? The seller? Uncle Sam? Loan alternatives

I love it! It's perfect! Looking for the right house

Plan B : fixer-uppers, FSBOs, foreclosures, and more

Show them the money : from offer to purchase agreement

Toward the finish line : tasks before closing

Send in the big guns : professional property inspectors

Who's got your back? Homeowners' insurance and home warranties

Seal the deal : finalizing your homebuying dreams.

Your homebuying companion

What's so great about buying a house?

What do you want? : figuring out your homebuying needs

Does this mean I have to balance my checkbook? : figuring out what you can afford

Stepping out : what's on the market and at what price

Select your players : the real estate team

Bring home the bacon : getting a mortgage

Mom and dad? The seller? Uncle Sam? : loan alternatives

I love it! It's perfect! Looking for the right house

Plan B : fixer-uppers, FSBOs, foreclosures, and more

Show them the money : from offer to purchase agreement

Toward the finish line : tasks before closing

Send in the big guns : professional property inspectors

Who's got your back? : homeowners' insurance and home warranties

Seal the deal : finalizing your homebuying dreams.

Your homebuying companion

What's so great about buying a house?

What do you want? Figuring out your homebuying needs

Does this mean I have to balance my checkbook? Figuring out what you can afford

Stepping out: what's on the market and at what price

Select your players: the real estate team

Bring home the bacon: getting a mortgage

Mom and Dad? The seller? Uncle Sam? Loan alternatives

I love it! It's perfect! Looking for the right house

Plan B: fixer-uppers, FSBOs, foreclosures, and more

Show them the money: from offer to purchase agreement

Toward the finish line: tasks before closing

Send in the big guns: professional property inspectors

Who's got your back? Homeowners' insurance and home warranties

Seal the deal: finalizing your homebuying dreams

Settling into your new home.

What's so great about buying a house?

What do you want? : figuring out your homebuying needs

Does this mean I have to balance my checkbook? : figuring out what you can afford

Stepping out : what's on the market and at what price

Select your players : the real estate team

Bring home the bacon : getting a mortgage

Mom and dad? the seller? Uncle Sam? : loan alternatives

I love it! it's perfect! : looking for the right house

Plan B : fixer-uppers, FSBOs, foreclosures, and more

Show them the money : from offer to purchase agreement

Toward the finish line : tasks before closing

Send in the big guns : professional property inspectors

Who's got your back? : homeowners' insurance and home warranties

Seal the deal : finalizing your homebuying dreams

Settling into your new home.