House Selling For Dummies

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House Selling For Dummies by Eric Tyson

America's 1 bestselling real estate authors have revised their classic guide to save you time and money as you prepare to sell your property. They'll show you when to put your house on the market, the pros and cons of FSBO, and the best ways to utilize the Internet, from online listings to digital photos. Read more Read less. Enabled Optimized for larger screens. Kindle Cloud Reader Read instantly in your browser. Customers who bought this item also bought. Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1.

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A lot of good sense and advice presented in an approachable, readable format. Common sense is seldom all that common so it is useful to have it all assembled in one place so you can review what you're doing and make sure you don't overlook something obvious.

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There are so many moving parts to getting a house sold that having this book on hand to make sure something doesn't get dropped is a good idea. I used this book to make sure I was fully prepared to assist my agent in getting my house sold for the best price in the shortest amount of time.

It was a decent read, but the information is quite outdated. I found the House Buying for Dummies to be a great use of my time, but House Selling left me wanting more. As others have stated, it might be time for a new edition of this book.

Selling Your House For Dummies

Always a great value buying these books. They offer a lot of useful knowledge. Okay and reasonably priced. Very comprehensive and helpful. I love the For Dummies series as they are always so descriptive.

House Selling for Dummies helped breakdown everything we needed to know when selling our house. Some real estate agents argue against getting a house inspected before putting it on the market: Many states now require that sellers disclose any known property defects to prospective buyers. These agents point out that you can't tell buyers about problems if you don't know that the problems exist.

Handing buyers a long list of repair problems as they enter your house will turn many of them off. They recommend getting buyers emotionally committed to the property first, before their own inspectors drop the bomb. That line of reasoning is based on an ostrich-like logic: What you don't know can't get you in trouble — for a while, anyway. Agents may use a second argument to convince sellers not to get their own property inspections: Buyers generally won't believe anything in reports paid for by sellers.

According to these agents, buyers suspect that you'll hire a go-easy inspector to falsely report that your house is as solid as the Rock of Gibraltar. Why spend several hundred dollars on an inspection report that buyers won't believe? Again, you can find a nugget of truth in this argument.

Only a suicidal chicken would ask the fox about how things are in the hen house. More than one unscrupulous seller has paid an equally unscrupulous inspector to write a false inspection report. Consider these four reasons to have your property thoroughly inspected before putting it on the market: Suppose that your house needs a new foundation.

The problem is there whether you know about it or not. Why wait passively for an ultimatum to fix the foundation at a cost established by the buyer's inspection or kiss the deal good-bye? If you discover the problem before marketing the house, you can either disclose it to prospective buyers with a repair estimate or, although it's not recommended, you can do the work before putting your house up for sale.

Your negotiating position is much stronger if you know about problems in advance — and accurately know the cost to correct them. You can't lose what you never had. Some buyers won't want to tour your house if they know that it needs a great deal of repair work. Those buyers don't want a fixer-upper. Even if you paid for all the repairs, they still wouldn't buy your house.

Concentrate on buyers who are willing to do corrective work after the close of escrow if your price and terms are fair.

Having a realistic estimate of your present house's net proceeds of sale before committing to buy a new home is important. Asking prices aren't sale prices. If your house needs major repairs, you'll pay for them one way or another — either by doing the repairs yourself, by reducing your asking price to reflect the cost of repairs, or by giving buyers a credit in escrow to do the work. Latent defects — flaws hidden out of sight behind walls or concealed in inaccessible areas, such as under your house or up in the attic where you can't see them — are time bombs. Defects you can't see and don't know about such as faulty wiring, termite damage, a cracked heat-exchanger in your furnace, dry rot, asbestos insulation, lead in your water pipes, and so on are potential deal killers.

A good premarketing inspection can reveal all these problems.

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