Comments on: How to Sell Your Home in Any Market: 6 Reasons Why Your Home Isn’t Selling… and What You Can Do to Fix Them

By: Timothy M. Mahon

Timothy M. Mahon — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:09:48 +0000

Start to finish, this is a great book about selling your home. The tips, techniques and marketing concepts are all supplimented with real world stories of how they’ve been tried and how they work.

The author even goes into the way to word advertisements to attract attention, and where customers search for homes on the web. The book is insightful, witty, and full of great information.
Rating: 5 / 5

By: Geraldine "Geri"

Geraldine "Geri" — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:28:54 +0000

This is the go to guide for selling a home when the market is slow. The tips and techniques are priceless and the advice is more than priceless. This is the kind of book that has a lot of information, but you can still sit down and read it straight through. Five Stars.
Rating: 5 / 5

By: Alan Jennings

Alan Jennings — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:08:22 +0000

One of the great things about watching HGTV has been that we can see the beginning of the project, how the project is accomplished and the ultimate result of that project.

This book sets out to explain how to sell your home, against the odds of the market, by using examples of homes that didn't sell initially, with the odds stacked against them, and how those situations were turned around to get the home sold.

There are some great examples of uses of staging, marketing, and pricing strategies as well as some cure-alls for situational problems.

Overall, this is a great book. I highly recommend it. Rating: 5 / 5

By: Rebecca Blose

Rebecca Blose — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:00:47 +0000

Most real estate books seem to be dry and lay out facts. This book not only gives great step by step instructions on what to do, when to do it, how to do it, and how to fix it, but actually includes funny little stories about situations that have happened and what technique was used to correct them.

There is lots of great information on marketing your home online, protecting yourself, staging the home (including some good photo examples), price positioning, selecting an agent (if you want one) and what to expect when your home goes under agreement. What challenges will you face from home inspectors, mortgage issues and title problems.

A great book for someone planning to sell their home! Rating: 5 / 5

By: R. Bartholomew

R. Bartholomew — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:33:09 +0000

Had some creative financing tips for would-be buyers without the means to do a straight buy. Otherwise common sense, the kind of stuff your realtor tells you you have to do that you don’t want to do but end up doing anyway. This book won’t make the difference in a truly difficult market. I didn’t follow a single tip beyond what we’d already done — cleaned up! — but sold anyway in 6 weeks instead of 9 months for two reasons: we assumed our buyers’ closing costs, and a number of buyers suddenly jumped into the market to get the first-time homebuyer tax credit.

Well, and also we dropped our price $5K, which opened us to another pool of buyers. Now we wish we hadn’t done that, but maybe it made the difference. We needed a quick sale. Location and price seem to me to be everything.
Rating: 3 / 5