May
6
How To Sell Your Home In Any Market
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Sell your home no matter what the market is like! If you are like most people, your home is the biggest financial asset you have. When it’s time for you to sell it, though – especially in a slow market – you need to be careful to avoid the six biggest mistakes that people make when putting their homes on the market. Otherwise, you might not be able to find a buyer. Loren Keim, a top real estate professional with over twenty years of experience, explains these six mi… More >>
How To Sell Your Home In Any Market
Tags: Home, biggest financial asset, financial asset, Market
Categories: All About Selling
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
To the Author: stop writing reviews for other books you haven’t read and linking to your own book. Like you did for Dan Brown’s new book.
Rating: 1 / 5
With wit, humor and great stories, Keim lays out the foundation for selling a home better than any book I’ve ever seen. He tackles the issues of whether or not to sell on your own (the pro’s and con’s), how to effectively market your home, how to use mortgage products to make your home more attractive to buyers, and how to find buyers by enticing them to look. In his section on staging, he takes the home apart, room by room, and gives us checklists of what needs to be done in each area and why it’s important. And again, he sprinkles funny stories throughout the book to show examples of what works, what doesn’t work and exactly why.
If you’re looking for the best book for selling a home in a slow market, look no further – this is it. I also recommend a book of funny real estate stories he wrote called Life Lessons…from the back seat of my car, which is a wonderful read.
Rating: 5 / 5
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
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