A Sample of
Real Estate
Information and
Other Helpful
Sources
Available at the
Fort Worth
Public Library
BOOKS
and PUBLICATIONS
40 Days to
Success in Real
Estate,
by Robert Shemin
332.6324 Shemin
Barron’s Real
Estate Handbook,
by Jack P.
Friedman
333.33 Friedman
Consultative
Real Estate
Agent
by Kelle
Sparta
333.33068 Sparta
Corporate
Finance
Sourcebook
2006
332.02573
Corporate
Five Steps to
Real Estate
Success,
by Lauren
Starkey
333.33023
Starkey
Home Staging, by
Barb
Schwarz 643.12
Schwarz
How to Buy and
Sell Real Estate
for Financial
Freedom,
by James
Dicks
332.6324 Dicks
How to Get
Started in the
Real Estate
Appraisal
Business
By Daniel J.
Nahorney
333.3320681
Nahorney
How to Prepare
for the Real
Estate Licensing
Exam,
By J. Bruce
Lindeman
346.730437
Lindeman
Insider’s Guide
to Real Estate,
by Diane
Kennedy
332.6324 Kennedy
Investing in
Real Estate,
by Andrew James
McLean
332.6324 McLean
Texas Real
Estate Brokerage
and Law of
Agency
By Charles J.
Jacobus 346.7640437
Jacobus
Texas Real
Estate Sales
Exam 333.3309764
Texas
Weekend Real
Estate Investor,
by James O.
Parker
332.63240973
Parker
Your Successful
Real Estate
Career,
by Kenneth
Edwards
333.33023
Edwards
Architectural
Digest
Austin American
Statesman
(Sunday Only)
Dallas Morning
News
Entrepreneur
Magazine
Forbes Magazine
Fort Worth
Business Press
Fort Worth
Magazine
Fort Worth Star
Telegram (and
Archives from
1875)
Texas Architect
Wall Street
Journal
ONLINE DATABASES
Business Source
Premier
Dallas Morning
News
Fort Worth Star
Telegram
Mergent Online
New York Times
ReferenceUSA
Regional
Business News
SOS Direct
(Texas
Corporation
Records)
Texas Digital
Sanborn Maps
RECOMMENDED
BUSINESS & OTHER
HELPFUL LINKS
American Land
Title
Association
http://www.alta.org/
American Real
Estate and Urban
Economics
Association
http://www.areuea.org/
American Resort
Development
Association
http://www.arda.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home
Fort Worth
Business
Assistance
Center
http://www.fwbac.com/BAC/index.asp
Fort Worth
Chamber of
Commerce
http://www.fortworthcoc.org/
Fort Worth
Metropolitan
Black Chamber of
Commerce
http://www.fwmbcc.org/
Hoover’s
Online
http://www.hoovers.com/free/
HUD Homes for
Sale
http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/reo/homes.cfm
International
Real Estate
Center
http://www.ired.com/
Mortgage
Qualifier
http://new.homefair.com/homefair/usr/qualcalcform.html
National
Association of
Realtors
http://www.realtor.org/
North Central
Council of
Governments
http://www.nctcog.dst.tx.us/
Real Estate
Center
http://recenter.tamu.edu/
Real Estate
Research
Institute
http://www.reri.org/
Tarrant
Appraisal
District
http://www.tad.org/
Tarrant County
Asian-American
Chamber of
Commerce
http://members.tripod.com/~xirnet/Commerce/main.html
Texas Appraisal
District Offices
http://www.window.state.tx.us/taxinfo/proptax/adalindex.html
Texas Land Title
Association
http://www.tlta.com/
Texas Title
Insurance Basic
Manual
http://www.tdi.state.tx.us/company/titleman.html
U.S. Census
Bureau
http://www.census.gov/
Urban Land
Institute
http://www.uli.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home
Local History
Collection
The Fort Worth
Public Library
has
approximately
10,000 items
pertaining to
the history of
Fort Worth and
Tarrant County.
These items
include city and
county
government
documents,
newspapers,
directories,
cemetery
association
records, maps as
well as popular
and scholarly
books written by
local authors or
about local
subjects. Among
the most popular
materials for
researchers are:
-
City
directories,
Fort Worth,
1877-present
-
Criss cross
directories,
Fort Worth,
1930-present
-
City
directories,
Arlington,
1964
-present
-
City
directories,
Suburban
Area,
1964-present
-
Maps
-
Telephone
Directories,
Fort Worth,
1910-present
-
School and
College
Yearbooks
-
Texas
Writers
Project,
Fort Worth
and Tarrant
County Data
-
Obituary
index to the
Fort Worth
newspapers,
1966 -1992
-
Index to
Tarrant
County
cemeteries,
1955
-
Everyname
index to
early Fort
Worth
newspapers,
1876-1901
-
Grantee/grantor
index to
Tarrant
County
deeds, 1876
-1936
-
Texas County
Tax Lists,
1836-1910
-
City of Fort
Worth
budgets,
1936-present
-
Fort Worth
Magazine
-
Aura
Magazine
-
Jewish
Monitor
-
North Fort
Worth News
-
Fort Worth
Labor News
-
Fort Worth
Mind
Como Monitor
The department
also keeps a
large vertical
file (77
drawers) of
newspaper
clippings. These
clippings date
from the 1940s
to the present.
They are
organized by
subjects ranging
from
biographical
materials,
museums,
elections, city
government,
hospitals,
education,
streets, civic
organizations
and so on.