How to Sell Your Home Without a Broker, Fourth Edition
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Invaluable advice, tips, and guidelines for selling your home the affordable way--yourself
With the high commissions being charged in today's housing market and the convenience of the Internet as a selling tool, many Americans find it more affordable to sell their own homes. This new edition of the indispensable home seller's how-to guide can save you thousands of dollars in real estate fees and commissions by showing you how to successfully market, negotiate, close, and wrap up the sale of your home-without paying a broker's high fees.
Updated and revised to reflect all the latest trends in real estate, this popular classic takes you through the ABCs of doing it yourself-from making a plan to making a profit when you close. Selling your own home can be tricky; this Fourth Edition provides all the tools and advice you need to save on fees, with:
* Worksheets, checklists, sample contracts, and other helpful documents
* New chapters on seller financing and second mortgages
* The latest tax law changes that affect home sellers
* Tips on how to get a buyer to assume your existing mortgage
* Guidance on using the Internet to sell your home
* Information on using land sale contracts, contracts for deed, wrap-around mortgages, and all-inclusive trust deeds (AITDs)
With its step-by-step guidance and its wealth of helpful tools, How to Sell Your Home Without a Broker will help you find a buyer as quickly-and cheaply-as possible.
With the high commissions being charged in today's housing market and the convenience of the Internet as a selling tool, many Americans find it more affordable to sell their own homes. This new edition of the indispensable home seller's how-to guide can save you thousands of dollars in real estate fees and commissions by showing you how to successfully market, negotiate, close, and wrap up the sale of your home-without paying a broker's high fees.
Updated and revised to reflect all the latest trends in real estate, this popular classic takes you through the ABCs of doing it yourself-from making a plan to making a profit when you close. Selling your own home can be tricky; this Fourth Edition provides all the tools and advice you need to save on fees, with:
* Worksheets, checklists, sample contracts, and other helpful documents
* New chapters on seller financing and second mortgages
* The latest tax law changes that affect home sellers
* Tips on how to get a buyer to assume your existing mortgage
* Guidance on using the Internet to sell your home
* Information on using land sale contracts, contracts for deed, wrap-around mortgages, and all-inclusive trust deeds (AITDs)
With its step-by-step guidance and its wealth of helpful tools, How to Sell Your Home Without a Broker will help you find a buyer as quickly-and cheaply-as possible.
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BILL CAREY has been a Realtor and a former director of the California Association of Realtors as well as a tax consultant and a frequent speaker at real estate seminars.
CHANTAL HOWELL CAREY has been a Texas real estate broker and seminar speaker. Bill and Chantal are also the authors of The New Path to Real Estate Wealth: Earning Without Owning (Wiley).
SUZANNE KIFFMANN is a professional writer and business systems designer.
CHANTAL HOWELL CAREY has been a Texas real estate broker and seminar speaker. Bill and Chantal are also the authors of The New Path to Real Estate Wealth: Earning Without Owning (Wiley).
SUZANNE KIFFMANN is a professional writer and business systems designer.
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Chapter Checklist.
SECTION I: PREPARE.
1. Decide on Your Goals.
2. Assemble Property Records.
3. Determine Your Financial Requirements.
4. Select Your Consultants.
5. Disclose!
SECTION II: MARKET.
6. Prepare Your Property.
7. Advertise!
8. Show Your Home Successfully.
SECTION III: NEGOTIATE.
9. Prepare for Negotiation.
10. Understand Purchase Contracts.
11. Understand Contract Implications.
12. Understand Other Possible Offers.
13. Handle Counteroffers.
14. Self Financing.
SECTION IV: CLOSE.
15. Understand Closing Basics.
16. Handle Closing Complications.
17. Close!
SECTION V: WRAP UP.
18. Handle Taxes.
19. Move!
SECTION VI: WORKSHEETS AND CONTRACTS.
Appendix.
Glossary.
Index.
