Books
Both of my books are free on Kindle, for a limited time
The House Behind the Price, for home buyers, and The Certainty Gap, for real estate professionals, are free to download on Kindle for a few days only. Here's what each book covers and how to grab your copy.
Eric Morris, Community Sales Manager, Insight Homes
· 4 min read
For a limited time, both of my books are free to download on Kindle. One is for real estate sales professionals, the other is for home buyers. Both come from years in the sales office, walking families through one of the biggest decisions they'll ever make. If either one could help you, or someone you know, now is the time to grab it.
Free for a limited time only. Before you tap Buy, check that the Kindle price shows $0.00. Once the promotion ends, the books go back to their regular price.
How to get your free copy
- Tap the Get it free on Kindle button for either book below.
- On Amazon, choose the Kindle edition and confirm the price is $0.00.
- Tap Buy now. The book is delivered to your Kindle library right away.
No Kindle? No problem. Read it in the free Kindle app on your phone, tablet or computer.
For home buyers
The House Behind the Price
A Clear-Eyed Guide to Buying New Construction and Resale Homes That Hold Up Over Time
The price tells you what a house costs. It doesn't tell you what living in it will cost you.
Most buyers fall in love with a home before they ever understand it. They compare list prices, tour a model home, run a mortgage calculator, and hope the rest works out. Then the first winter arrives—or the first repair bill, the first HOA letter, the first month the budget doesn't stretch—and they realize the price was the smallest part of the decision.
The House Behind the Price is a straight-talking guide for anyone choosing between new construction and resale, written by a new-home sales professional who has walked hundreds of buyers through the process. It strips away the hype from both sides and gives you a repeatable way to evaluate any home before you sign anything.
- Compare builders, specs, and standard features that truly matter
- Look under the surface at systems, envelope, and site work
- Weigh energy-efficient upgrades against a 10–20 year payback
- Read a resale home's age, upkeep, and deferred repairs honestly
- Use inspections, warranties, and walkthroughs to your advantage
274 pages · Kindle and paperback
For real estate sales professionals
The Certainty Gap
How Real Estate Sales Professionals Guide Buyers from Hesitation to Confident Action
Hesitation from a buyer is almost never a lack of desire. It is a lack of certainty.
The “Certainty Gap” is the anxious distance between what buyers genuinely want and their confidence that they can actually achieve it without making a costly mistake. The Certainty Gap dismantles the exhausting, high-pressure tactics that lead to professional burnout and canceled contracts, and replaces adversarial scripts and forced urgency with a practical five-movement framework: Connect, Listen, Examine, Align, and Resolve.
Written for real estate professionals across new construction, resale, and management, it treats the salesperson as a knowledgeable guide rather than a combative closer. Inside you will find authentic dialogue transcripts, situational breakdowns, and twenty-minute daily field drills—a highly actionable practice plan for turning sales from a daily contest of wills into a collaborative, referral-generating practice.
- Connect: become a safe, useful person in the first ninety seconds.
- Listen: hear what the buyer wants and what they are afraid of.
- Examine: surface the real objection and the hidden constraints.
- Align: match the home and the plan to the buyer's true priorities.
- Resolve: guide a decision the buyer still feels good about tomorrow.
461 pages · Kindle and paperback
A small favor
If a book helps you, I'd be grateful for an honest review on Amazon. Reviews help other buyers and agents find it. And if you know someone shopping for a home, or an agent who'd rather guide than push, please pass this page along while the books are free.
Agents: I also offer lunch-and-learn sessions on the CLEAR framework for real estate offices. See the Realtors page or send me a note.
Thinking about a new home in Southern Delaware? The book is a great place to start, and I'm always happy to walk you through a model in person. Explore communities or call me at 410-726-4176.
Prices are set by Amazon and the free promotion runs for a limited time. Check the price on Amazon before you buy. Kindle Unlimited members can also read both books at no extra cost.
Share this post: FacebookEmailFollow Eric on Facebook
More from the blog
Turn your flex room into the best seat in the house on game day
How to plan the flex room in your new home for football Sundays: loft or den, TV size and seating distance, wiring before drywall, layout and snacks.
How AI can help you compare homes and ask the questions that lead to a good decision
How home buyers can use AI to compare homes and communities, sample prompts to copy, the questions to ask a builder, and where AI falls short.
Insulation and R-values: what built to code really means, and how Insight builds better
What R-values mean, what Delaware's energy code requires, and how Insight Homes' walls, attic, air sealing and HERS scores compare with code-minimum…
Let's talk
Questions about buying right now?
Tell me what you're weighing: rates, timing, a community or a floor plan. I'll give you today's pricing and incentives and a straight answer.