Finding Home

Finding Home will help you navigate the home-buying maze, giving you practical guidance and help, so you can feel confident before you take your first steps. Filled with insights and tips for first time home buyers and seasoned investors alike, this reference guide provides answers and information at your fingertips. Finding Home incorporates today’s attitudes, technologies, laws, demographic trends, environmental concerns, and economic realities. Throughout the book, you will follow Jack and Eva, a young couple navigating the home buying process. They face the same concerns that you do such as: money, credit, mortgage loans, home types, features, locations and costs, real estate brokers, negotiations, inspections, closing, and moving in. They will access websites and tools, and fill in forms and applications, giving you that, “Hey, I can do this!” mindset.

Michael Trickey of Lake Zurich, IL

Michael Trickey is an active participant in the residential and commercial real estate markets. A CPA with thirty-five years of experience in the financial services industry, he has acquired and sold single family homes, condos, apartment buildings and commercial properties. He has also helped many people, young and old, find and buy the right home for them. Observing the challenges that his two millennial daughters and their friends faced in today’s housing market, he wrote this book to provide easy-to-understand-and-follow guidance on the many aspect of buying a home. Mike lives in the Chicago area with his wife, Diane, and their beloved dog, Chessie.