REAL ESTATE'S BEST KEPT SECRET Can Change Your Life! All across America, families and individuals are bringing their dreams of homeownership to life through the power of an amazing U.S Government-guaranteed mortgage program. At the same time, there are many more who have no idea this opportunity exists. The "secret" is the little known FHA 203k Renovation Loan Program that provides the funds for purchase or refinance along with renovation funds in a single loan! With a low down payment, you can get a great deal on a great home and remodel it to meet your tastes and needs. Acting on this opportunity can truly change your life, as well as your financial future. Real Estate's Best Kept Secret was written specifically to help you understand the power of this amazing program and the opportunities it presents -- and then guide you successfully to the home of your dreams. You'll keep this easy to read renovation loan handbook at your side to guide you successfully through the process, preparing you for each of the important steps and helping you avoid potential pitfalls. You'll better understand how to locate the right home, negotiate the purchase, evaluate renovation costs and make better decisions regarding the overall home value as well. You'll learn how to work most successfully with your lender, realtor and renovation contractors along your road to 203k success. "This is an exciting book to share with anyone with a Dream of Homeownership. Dennis and Teresa Walsh's passion and willingness to help others resonates throughout the book." - John S. Adams National Renovation Manager Prospect Mortgage "Dennis and Teresa Walsh have once again found that special niche opportunity that can change the way real estate is done. The 203k program is a hidden gem and they lay it out in plain and simple language so you can learn and leverage this powerful tool to get the job done!" - Steve Ozonian Chief Real Estate Officer Carrington Holdings Corporation "The U.S. housing market is plagued by an aged housing inventory. That is compounded with a lack of equity and the need for renovation and updates to be marketable. The 203K program provides real hope for those that want to improve or sell an older home. This program is critical to the revitalization of the national housing market." - Kenneth Jenny former CEO of RealEstate.com, COO of Coldwell Banker Residential Affiliates and CMO of Prudential Real Estate "Dennis and Teresa Walsh recognized that the FHA 203K was a program that could help many people purchase and improve the homes of their dreams. In this "Must Read" book, they provide step-by-step directions for making the most of the Best Kept Secret in Real Estate." - David Horowitz International Real Estate Consultant former SRVP Education NRT, LLC

The urgent demand for housing after World War I fueled a boom in residential construction that led to historic peaks in home ownership. Foreclosures at the time were rare, and when they did happen, lenders could quickly recoup their losses by selling into a strong market. But no mortgage system is equipped to deal with credit problems on the scale of the Great Depression. As foreclosures quintupled, it became clear that the mortgage system of the 1920s was not up to the task, and borrowers, lenders, and real estate professionals sought action at the federal level. Well Worth Saving tells the story of the disastrous housing market during the Great Depression and the extent to which an immensely popular New Deal relief program, the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC), was able to stem foreclosures by buying distressed mortgages from lenders and refinancing them. Drawing on historical records and modern statistical tools, Price Fishback, Jonathan Rose, and Kenneth Snowden investigate important unanswered questions to provide an unparalleled view of the mortgage loan industry throughout the 1920s and early ’30s. Combining this with the stories of those involved, the book offers a clear understanding of the HOLC within the context of the housing market in which it operated, including an examination of how the incentives and behaviors at play throughout the crisis influenced the effectiveness of policy. More than eighty years after the start of the Great Depression, when politicians have called for similar programs to quell the current mortgage crisis, this accessible account of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation holds invaluable lessons for our own time.

Reducing residential segregation is the best way to reduce racial inequality in the United States. African American employment rates, earnings, test scores, even longevity all improve sharply as residential integration increases. Yet far too many participants in our policy and political conversations have come to believe that the battle to integrate America’s cities cannot be won. Richard Sander, Yana Kucheva, and Jonathan Zasloff write that the pessimism surrounding desegregation in housing arises from an inadequate understanding of how segregation has evolved and how policy interventions have already set many metropolitan areas on the path to integration. Scholars have debated for decades whether America’s fair housing laws are effective. Moving toward Integration provides the most definitive account to date of how those laws were shaped and implemented and why they had a much larger impact in some parts of the country than others. It uses fresh evidence and better analytic tools to show when factors like exclusionary zoning and income differences between blacks and whites pose substantial obstacles to broad integration, and when they do not. Through its interdisciplinary approach and use of rich new data sources, Moving toward Integration offers the first comprehensive analysis of American housing segregation. It explains why racial segregation has been resilient even in an increasingly diverse and tolerant society, and it demonstrates how public policy can align with demographic trends to achieve broad housing integration within a generation.

Whether or not there is discrimination in the mortgage lending market is one of the most extensively debated issues in the civil rights arena. Because many early studies were flawed and the results misinterpreted on both sides of the debate, there is little agreement as to the next essential steps in either research or enforcement. This comprehensive volume seeks to clarify the debate by including rigorous review of fair lending research, applied projects, and enforcement activities to date, as well as recommendations for research needed to resolve unanswered questions. The intent of the authors is to help the housing industry, regulators, advocates, and the research community to better understand the issue of discrimination in an important area of American life -- the right to take out a mortgage to buy a home based on one's credit worthiness, not on one's race or ethnic group.