The Single Woman's Guide To Real Estate: All You Need to Buy Your First Home, Buy a Vacation Home, Keep a Home After a Divorce, Invest in Property

by Donna Raskin

With statistics like these, you'd think that more attention would be paid to the special issues and challenges single women face when buying a home. Yet they remain the most neglected group of consumers—and readers!—out there. The Single Woman's Guide to Real Estate changes all that. Filling a much-needed hole in the marketplace, single mom Donna Raskin and prominent real estate entrepreneur Susan Hawthorne have written an engaging and informative guide that shows single women everywhere how to invest their hard-earned money in the real estate market. Whether they're buying their first home, re-entering the market after a divorce, or looking for that perfect condo for their retirement, readers will look to this one-stop resource for the answers and advice they need to make their dream of home ownership a reality.

Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Addie]

The book has been pretty solid once I got past the cringeworthy introduction where the authors just had to make the gender essentialist statement that only a woman can make a home, as well as address a fear that I suppose is legitimate for some women but seemed really out of place right at the beginning: "Will buying a house make me single for life?" Umm...

Also fun given that it was written in 2006 to see the authors attempt to explain all of the ridiculous constructions of the housing bubble when it's clear that they don't really support them, but feel obligated to include them for the audience of that particular age.

[Jen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lots of good advice. Some is review of basics you learn in a homebuying class, but a refresher never hurts when you're dealing with such a big transaction and decision.

I worried the book might be "dumbed down" because of the title, but it wasn't -- very thorough yet readable.