The Skinny on the Housing Crisis: What Every Homeowner and Homebuyer NEEDS to KNOW!!! »

The Skinny on the Housing Crisis is an in-depth look into how America dragged itself into the worst housing and credit crisis since The Great Depression. The story is told through the experience of a young couple, Billy and Beth, who in 2006 buy their first house. Two years later, they lose their house to foreclosure. The very first book in The Skinny On series, Jim Randel received the 2009 Robert Bruss 1st place Book Award for The Skinny on the Housing Crisis, bestowed by the National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE), an organization of more than 650 writers and editors writing in the fields of real estate, business, and finance. Here is what one of the judges for the award wrote about Jim Randel's award-winning book:

"Wow. What a concept, having stick people tell the story of one of the beefiest, multifaceted, complex and confusing bits of recent economic history in terms everyone can understand, I wish I had this on my desk when I was editing all those stories about the impact of the collapse of the real estate market. Original. Informative. Easy to read. And funny to boot . . . ."

Michael Dunford - Midwest Book Review

The Skinny on the Housing Crisis is critically important reading for anyone contemplating the buying or selling of a home in today's drastically chaotic housing market and an ideal addition to personnel and community library reference collections.