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Summary: Read this book BEFORE you put a FOR SALE sign in your yard.
Review: "How To Sell Your Own Home" is a teaching book, full of practical examples and expert advice. It's both easy to read and comprehensive, the result of the author's extensive experience in the For Sale By Owner (FSBO) business.The book serves as your coach and advisor, taking you step by step, from your initial decision to sell your own property, through the closing. Not only can you save the commission you won't have to pay a real estate agent, this book can help you get more for your home and get a better value from your marketing efforts. Can you tell I liked it? I read it twice, cover to cover, and highlighted about a third of it. I bet the lessons it taught me saved me 100 times the cover price. If you are thinking about selling your own home or you are already in the process, buy this book, read it, and heed the author's advice!
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Summary: Read this book BEFORE you put a FOR SALE sign in your yard.
Review: "How To Sell Your Own Home" is a teaching book, full of practical examples and expert advice. It's both easy to read and comprehensive, the result of the author's extensive experience in the For Sale By Owner (FSBO) business. The book serves as your coach and advisor, taking you step by step, from your initial decision to sell your own property, through the closing. Not only can you save the commission you won't have to pay a real estate agent, this book can help you get more for your home and get a better value from your marketing efforts. Can you tell I liked it? I read it twice, cover to cover, and highlighted about a third of it. I bet the lessons it taught me saved me 100 times the cover price. If you are thinking about selling your own home or you are already in the process, buy this book, read it, and heed the author's advice!
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Summary: Beware
Review: Do not believe this book. Hiring a realtor is the BEST way to sell your house. I tried to use this book and lost thousands of dollars and ended up hiring a realtor anyways. The keys to selling a house are advertising and having a way for buyers and their realtors to see your house at all times of the day. This book does NOT provide adequate information on this, and you do need a realtor for the advertising and access to your house for showing.
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Summary: Where's the Bonus?
Review: Great book! Only negative remark I have is the fact that I bought this book based on the understanding (as advertised on Amazon) that an e-mail address would be provided to obtain all the documents covered. However, I have yet to discover this "secret" e-mail address!
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Summary: Best Book on Selling Own Home
Review: I made the mistake of buying a couple of books in the bookstore written by "experts" that were real estate agents. Fortunately I found Supple's book here and followed its advice. Those books that are written by agents are full of incorrect and counter-productive info. Supple's book is useful because it is based on tried and true results from his FSBO magazine business. This book took me step-by-step through selling a home and was there with me at the closing...just so I knew what I was doing. A great book, everyone should get it
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Summary: Best Book on Selling Own Home
Review: I made the mistake of buying a couple of books in the bookstore written by "experts" that were real estate agents. Fortunately I found Supple's book here and followed its advice. Those books that are written by agents are full of incorrect and counter-productive info. Supple's book is useful because it is based on tried and true results from his FSBO magazine business. This book took me step-by-step through selling a home and was there with me at the closing...just so I knew what I was doing. A great book, everyone should get it
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Summary: Easy reading, takes the mystery out of selling a home.
Review: I publish a FSBO Magazine and have read MANY books on "how to" but this one, by far, is the best. It's well organized and easy to understand for people who want to avoid paying real estate commissions. Dr. Supple has done a superb job of taking buyers and sellers right through to the closing.
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Summary: Absolutely the best book on selling a home
Review: I used this book to sell my home myself and it worked like a charm. I got the book because I saw a story about it in Business Week and Smart Money Magazine. They recommended I get the book before I put the house on the market so that I would make any mistakes I'd regret later.
They were right! I sold the house in about 3 weeks following the advice in the book and I saved about... When I tried to calculate the return on my investment from this book my calculator short-circuited because the return was so great!
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Summary: High on rah-rah, lower on technique
Review: I want to sell my home by myself. Dr. Supple seems to say that a real estate lawyer is a necessity, but I know people who haven't used one. Probably they are well worth it, but real estate agents don't contract with them. The point up to the marketing plan, advertising, preparation, appraising, etc. is well written, but the section after the offer is made, which includes signing a sales contract, buyers getting financing, etc. lacked details. I would have liked a matrix of necessary paperwork (i.e. Warranty Deed, Settlement Statement or Property Tax Pro-rating), who prepares it, when it is prepared, who pays for it, and if the cost can be settled closing. The long prose sections are good for detailed explanations, but I know what each of the documents is. I just need to know who takes care of them (prepping, signing, sealing). My review title refers to the fact that Supple seems to need to keep convincing people who have already decided to sell by owner. I bought the book based on the previous reviews, and gave this book 3 stars as a way to balance the somewhat overly positive praise.
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Summary: If you have sold a house or bought one forget this book!
Review: I was really looking forward to this read - however greatly unsatisfied when I finished (within an hour). Most of what is inside would be common sense for anyone who has sold or bought a house in the past using a good agent. This is not to say that I like using an agent - I don't and won't. What I do mean is that if you have had past experience with this kind of transaction and had a good agent that walks you through the process than you have already covered much of the content of this book- like home inspections and appraisals and oh ya duh get a good lawyer. Save your money for the lawyer and your ads!
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