The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buying and Selling a Home for Canadians

Ashley Thomson is a full librarian at Laurentian University and co-editor or co-author of nine books, most recently Margaret Atwood: A Reference Guide, 1988-2005.

This well-organized, thorough book is filled with tips on what to do and
what not to do when buying and selling a home in Canada. For those who
really are “idiots” (or at least slow readers), all of the chapters
include “The Least You Need to Know” summaries.

Chapters 1 to 15 focus on buying homes; Chapters 16 to 22, on selling
them. Given the fact that in Canada these days it’s a buyer’s
market, the book seems strangely disproportionate, since it is much
harder to sell a home than to buy one. That said, of the crop of
real-estate books currently available, this book, with its sophomoric
sense of humor and off-hand style, might have more appeal.