Property Law and Real Estate Books

This is an excellent book for anyone interested in buying real estate. It tells all the legal details and your rights that most books do not. It tells you how to back out of a deal, how to deal with encroachments and so forth. A definite need for anyone buying, selling or just interested.

Book was in perfect condition and received in two days (as advertised) after the order was placed. Many thanks for fast delivery!

This compelling tale of American Wildlife Law is so eloquently written that I was almost moved to tears. It is by far the best law book I have ever read and it is such a shame that it is no longer in print. Mr. Lund has awoken a passion inside of me for this wonderful branch of law. I can't begin to explain just how wonderful this book is. Keep writing Mr. Lund.
-Anna Kennedy, Harvard Law School

This is an awesome tool to have for anyone studying real estate in Arizona. I figured with the market as slow as it has been, now would be a good time to get into real estate. As it always does, the market will pick back up, hopefully, soon. The information in this book is invaluable. It covers everything very thoroughly. It's right on point. I like it because it doesn't cover a broad range of states, where you have to figure out which area applies to yours, it just covers Arizona and it's requirements to pass the real estate exam. It provides study help tools and great practice questions and exam's. A definite must for anyone studying to get their real estate license in AZ. I highly recommend it

The authors clearly present the factors that, on one hand, allow industrial and commercial property eyesores to exist, and on the other hand, those factors that can redevelop them into valuable modern real estate. The NST/Engineers, Inc. reviewers have participated in brownfields remediation designs and in the development of estimated costs for remediation, sometimes extending decades into the future. Brownfields are, according to an EPA definition, "...abandoned, idled, or underused industrial and commercial sites where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination that can add cost, time and uncertainty to a redevelopment project."

A few decades ago industrialists eyeing real estate for acquisition would be concerned about the use they could foresee, the asking price, zoning potential, the neighborhood, and a few other particulars. Rarely were they deeply concerned about what had gone on at the property in past years. Now, one of the first things a prospective buyer wants to know is "what might have gone on here in past years that has resulted in contamination of structures, the grounds, subsurface, or any water bodies." Property owners have similar concerns, but they have more information. So that both buyers and sellers wonder what magnitude of environmental remediation costs would be required for various redevelopment projects. The authors take the reader through the major considerations of both buyer and seller. They treat both the private and municipal redeveloper.

Their case studies, though largely drawn from their Chicago experiences, emphasize the careful planning and execution steps required in redevelopment anywhere. Based on data from less than 200 sites, the cost of brownfields redevelopment has been estimated to be just under $60,000 per acre. Cleanup of contamination, where it occurs, has been estimated at 8% of the total cost of redevelopment. The authors make an excellent point that much more cooperation is needed between interested parties to expand brownfields redevelopment. Venture groups are needed consisting of environmental scientists and engineers, capital providers, insurance specialists, real estate experts, and an experience project management team. Not to be forgotten is "due diligence". For a brownfields purchaser this means an in-depth analysis of the physical, economic, and legal conditions of any property in question. The authors describe how this analysis must have much more depth to it than the due diligence involved with purchase of an uncompromised industrial property. Federal, state, and local environmental officials, and governmental officials must appreciate the importance of rejuvenating unused brownfields as opposed to converting more fertile farms to industrial properties. And finally those officials must have the will to find ways to make a remediation happen. Individuals in all of the above occupations are well-advised to read this book.

As a model of an up-to-date state initiative to hasten brownfields remediation, the authors provide the details of the Illinois Pollution Control Board's Tiered Approach to Corrective Action Objectives ("TACO").

I must admit this is an excellent book and especially so for the amateur like myself who wants to understand the whole process of buying a property. One thing I love about this book is how Ajay has explained the whole process of buying a property from start to finish!

This is an invaluable tool for someone who either wants to buy their first property or expand their portfolio. Ajay explains the whole process in a clear and concise manner making it easy to follow and giving you excellent advise on how best to approach and reap the best value from your property.

Ajay talks from experience as he himself has followed these strategies and has been very successful with them. I have been interested in buy to let for sometime now and have to admit that after browsing through various books on this subject, the buy to let bible has to be the best by far on this subject! You will not find another quality book like this which explains the whole process of buying a property from start to finish.

Ajay has also provided a reference section at the back of the book and this gives contact details of various lenders and advises on property hotspots along with loads of other useful information.

A truly valuable book and a must have for all property enthusiasts.

A phenomenal and comprehensive review of the canon of California construction law. Hunt and Gibbs successfully elucidate the intricacies of their profession and allow the reader to revel in the joy of law.

I bought this book and it was the only book I used to prep for my real estate broker's exam. I took the exam on June 20, 2007 and passed (it was my first try).

There are 15 chapters in this book and at the end of each chapter, there is a practice quiz you can take to test your knowledge on what the chapter just covered. Each quiz contains anywhere from 45-150 questions, but most quizes have over 100 questions. The book also contains 3 practice exams (150 questions each) at the very end to test you on all the topics covered in the book.

I went through all the M/C questions in this book twice (3 times for the more difficult chapters). The night before my exam, I actually had a last-minute panic that the practice questions in the book would be different from the actual exam. I shouldn't have worried. The questions turned out to be very representative of the actual exam. I didn't see more than 2 or 3 questions in the exam that dealt with a topic or situation that I didn't come across in the book. In fact, on many questions, I actually knew what the answer should be before I even finished reading the question since I had already answered many similar questions in the prep book!

I am not affiliated with the author in any way. In fact, this is my first book review, ever. I felt compelled to write this review and share my experience with others as I recall how anxious I was about the quality of this book when I purchased it.

The history of environmental law in this country is one of media by media legislation where pollution is chased from air to water to land rather than cleaned-up. In this book Celia Campbell-Mohn et.al. revolutionizes the way in which environmental law is organized and analyzed. Instead of breaking the environment into sectors as resources (species, minerals) and sinks for pollution (air, land, water, groundwater) she creates a new approach, the Resources To Recovery model, which divides the human interfaces with nature into sectors (extraction, manufacture and disposal) and treats nature comprehensivly within each interface. This book is totally unlike any other effort to understand and organize our legal relationship to the environment and it deserves attention. If you have time to read but one book in the area of environmental law and policy this year, this should be it......

well if you law professor uses this book you are set, it explains everything and then has the cases to show the theories in use, unlike many other law books which just had cases and you had to pull the rules out as you read.