This guide was created to help buyers of real estate, whether for a personal residence or investment property, ensure that they protect themselves on their purchase by doing the proper due diligence. Professor Leonard Baron, MBA, CPA, is America's Real Estate Professor, a long term real estate investor, and a nationally recognized expert on making smart and safer real estate decisions when purchasing property. You can see a two minute video detailing the book contents and teachings at www.ProfessorBaron.com Leonard is also a San Diego State University Real Estate lecturer, a commercial real estate consultant, teaches at the San Diego Association of Realtors, the San Diego County Law Library, and lots of other organizations. He really enjoys teaching and loves kicking the tires of a good piece of dirt His Zillow.com blog on interesting and useful real estate topics can be found here: http: //www.zillow.com/blog/author/leonardbaron/