There can be little doubt that Moby Dick has little to worry about from Finding The Uncommon Deal. Mr. Bailey has no interest in high flown phrases that ring in your imagination. Rather, he takes the street fighter’s approach to the hard boiled business of finding the best housing possible at the best possible price.
And from that point of view, Finding the Uncommon Deal is itself the best advice possible at the best possible price. It is exactly what it claims it can help you find.
Mr. Bailey obviously does not want you to be impressed with his oratory. He just wants to give you the practical advice you need to get the most bang for your buck. The book is tightly organized to meet that very goal, starting with the idea of getting yourself the money to make the deal and ending with the idea of how best to spend it.
I was fortunate to see the very earliest drafts of the book and to commend it to my daughter in her search for the home that best suited her needs. She knows Mr. Bailey personally, but instead of having to barrage him with a thousand questions, she had the luck to have a working copy of him safely lodged in her handbag.
There is nothing about this book to make its reader like Mr. Bailey. It is blunt, brusque, and to the point. It tells you things that polite people don’t want to hear about, like how to take advantage of the death of a neighbor, but in the end, it leaves you to figure out for yourself the answer to a simple moral question: Somebody is going to get that hot bargain; why shouldn’t it be you?
And that’s what the book is about, hot bargains, wise precautions, stepping up to the plate and taking appropriate risks while steering away from bad ones.
And, at the end of the day, when you have purchased your home for tens of thousands of dollars less than you would have paid without Mr. Bailey’s advice, you can lie back in your recliner in your living room and drink in the wonderful prose of Moby Dick.—Dov Treiman
Published by