Product Description

This new and updated second edition teaches you how to join the ranks of smart property owners who are easily selling their own property and greatly improving their personal financial position. Written by the publisher of a very successful for-sale-by-owner real estate magazine, this book shares the expert knowledge gained from helping tens of thousands of homeowners sell their own homes & land. This unique book is based on practical, real-life experience that translates into results. The 160-page book covers everything you need to know to sell your own home and pocket those commissions you would have paid a broker: Chapter 1 : Trends in For-Sale-by-Owner Real Estate
Chapter 2 : Setting the Correct Price on Your Home
Chapter 3 : Enhancing the Appearance of Your Home
Chapter 4 : Advertising & Marketing Your Own Home
Chapter 5 : Showing Your Home: How to Interact with Buyers
Chapter 6 : Negotiation : The Terms & Conditions of the Sale
Chapter 7 : Legal Aspects of Selling Your Own Home
Chapter 8 : Home Inspections Chapter 9 : Mortgage Basics for Sellers Chapter 10 :Dealing with Real Estate Agents Chapter 11 : Summary Chapter 12 : How to Buy a Home from the Owner

(Great for helping your buyer!) Also contains many helpful charts, checklists and sample forms to help you get organized and stay on track. Nationally syndicated personal finance columnist Jane Bryant Quinn said of this book "for a zillion tips on selling your own home...get this book!" Washington Post, March 3, 1997

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #196060 in Books
• Published on: 2003-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Review
An outstanding book. Common-sense approach and useful unique information -- American Homeowners Association, October 1999

Everyone thinking about selling their home should read this book - Ken Dolan -- Your Money with the Dolans, Feb 1998

For a zillion tips on selling your own home get this book - Jane Bryant Quinn, national personal finance columnist -- Newsweek, March 7, 1997

From the Publisher
PUBLISHER'S SPECIAL-- Now you receive Sales Contracts, Disclosure Forms and other paperwork necessary to sell the property with the purchase of the book. These forms are those used in our for sale by owner real estate business that has helped tens of thousands of people SUCCESSFULLY sell by owner. When you purchase the book, inside will be an email address from which to obtain the forms in Adobe PDF format (most computers have this program pre-installed). Read the book to understand the forms then just print the forms out when you’re ready to sell.

From the Author
This is the only book of its kind. I have dealt with tens of thousands of for sale by owner homesellers over the past decade in my for sale by owner real estate magazine business Picket Fence Preview. The information in the book comes from field-tested case studies with real private homesellers...it really does work. We have learned from direct experience what is effective in selling a home by owner and more importantly what is not effective. Over 85% of our publication advertisers sell so the "proof is in the pudding."

Customer Reviews

Easy reading, takes the mystery out of selling a home.
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.

Great book for the by owner seller
This book is the only one like it I have ever seen on the market. The information is well-organized, useful and not intimidating. The author - who publishes a for sale by owner real estate magazine - has direct experience with thousands of private homesellers like me! The best chapters are those that deal with Pricing the house, how to show the house and interact with buyers and how to hammer out the deal so that everyone is happy.

I've read other books by disgruntled real estate agents that want to "get back" at their profession by writing a for sale by owner book...they all stink. They fail to understand that real estate agents ONLY deal with those that fail in selling by owner.

Stay with Supple, his advice is unique and proven. You can see the real life examples of those that have successfully sold from his advice at the web site for his Vermont magazine ...

Robert Larsen
Needham MA

Best Book on Selling Own Home
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