Today owners and tenants occupy almost $14 trillion worth of homes and apartments in the United States. The authoras objective is to explain the basic underlying realities that must be understood in order to make expensive residential real estate decisions. These decisions include buying and selling real estate, and making real estate brokerage your career. Readers will have a casual, often humorous conversation while learning about the subject from thirty-plus-year veteran real estate broker and Realtor Tina Habeeb. This conversation is punctuated with to-do lists, facts, statistics, laws of the land, interesting historical information, humor and trivia.