Real Estate Coordinator (Research Institute of America...

Real Estate Coordinator (Research Institute of America Inc., New York) is an eight-volume reference book written in business English for attorneys, CPAs and real estate professionals. The loose-leaf guide is supplemented every two weeks. A one-year subscription is $522; two years are $1,044. Two volumes are geared to guidance in planning real estate transactions, three volumes back up the planning material with detailed explanations of specific points of law and citations to controlling authorities. A practice aids volume features forms and agreements and the two remaining volumes contain indexes, finding tables and reprints of the relevant tax and non-tax rules.

Save Thousands on a New Home by C. William Meyer (C. William Meyer, 32 Sylvan St., Lincoln Park, N.J. 07035, $9.95) is an excellent guide to the home-building process by a 21-year veteran of the Lincoln Park (N.J.) police department. This book might be worthwhile even if you’re planning to remodel an existing house, since Meyer discusses how to deal with workers in the building trades, obtaining permits, design and a variety of topics. There is no index, but Meyer does provide an excellent glossary of building terms at the end of this 100-page paperbound book.

The Lazy Way to Buy Real Estate by John V. Childers (Regency Books, distributed by Kampmann & Co.; $15.95 cloth; 230 pages). The author describes himself as a self-made millionaire and lecturer and says he teaches a system designed to help anyone who has a full-time job or interests and very little time to devote to real estate investing. Topics include finding income-producing property, buying houses at 75% of their appraised value, creating “zero down” financing, writing contracts with specially designed legal clauses, and creating immediate income starting with no cash.