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Do a little summer jobs with a construction company. You will learn about buildings, codes, and construction. It will help you spot problem areas in a home or building that even the seller may not notice but an inspector would. If the buyers are going through a government agency there are certain codes that a house or building must meet before the government will assist the funding. Certain things that involve wiring, insulation, structural soundness, etc. Working with it hands on will help you avoid the little pitfalls that many may miss.
No matter how much book knowledge you get you will never get enough to be the best without learning through experience. Perhaps get a summer job at a real estate office doing secretarial work. You'd be amazed at what you could even learn that way and you could pick the brains of the better realtors that you find yourself rubbing shoulders with. Learn that way by example too. Watch them and see what mistakes they make.
I know you want all the ammunition with you that you can have but I honestly don't know of much indepth BOOK knowledge out there. MUCH of it is based on experience.
We are currently in the process of buying a house. The realtor that finally found us a place that we liked and is doing the best job for us (we dealt with more than one realtor in our search and some didn't work as hard) is in her 50's. She's a buyer's realtor and is doing an excellent job and communicating with us every step of the way. The key here though I think is experience. She knows her work because she's been doing it for a LONG time.
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