| | |  | Home Business Books | Home » » The Homeowner’s Guide to For Sale By Owner: Everything You Need to Know to Sell Your Home Yourself and Save Thousands | | | | | | | Description: | | American homeowners saw the real estate landscape change in recent years. Most cities in America have buyer s markets, meaning you may have to go that extra mile if you want to sell your home. This book details each benefit that going FSBO can bring you, and explains how you can accomplish this task while saving money. With the help of this new book and companion CD-ROM, selling your home without a realtor or broker will be fast and easy. In this comprehensive and easy-to-understand book, you will learn the entire by owner process from A-Z. You will learn how to set the sales price and how to save the 6 to 8 percent real estate commission, which can add up to thousands or tens of thousands of dollars in savings. You will learn how to prepare or stage your home, have a professional appraisal and home inspection, market, advertise, and show your home, list your home for sale on the Internet, list your home on the Realtor s Multiple Listing Service (MLS), host an open house, and develop and market a fact sheet. In addition, you will learn about mortgage lenders, home inspectors, title companies, escrow agents, the pros and cons of using a For Sale By Owner (FSBO) service, the legal issues, the biggest mistakes FSBO sellers make and how to avoid them, contracts, legal forms, and check lists (all of which can be found on the companion CD-ROM), and when and how to use a real estate attorney. This book also includes dozens of resources and information from real estate experts: mortgage planners, attorneys, escrow agents, and realtors were interviewed for this book. In addition, people who have accomplished selling their own homes were interviewed to give inside tips on how to reach this goal. Let this book be your guide through saving money and selling your house the FSBO way. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Jackie Bondanza | | Paperback:
| 288 pages | | Publisher:
| Atlantic Publishing Company | | Publication Date:
| 2010 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1601381271 | | Product Length:
| 8.9 inches | | Product Width:
| 6.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.8 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.8 pounds | | Package Length:
| 8.8 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.1 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.55 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 8 reviews |
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9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Do It Yourself and Save!Mar 22, 2010
By Cynthia L. Mcallister
"She who reads"
The Home Owner's Guide to For Sale by Owner
by Jackie Bondanza
In the book The Home Owner's Guide to For Sale by Owner, the author organizes a plan for people
who want to save the expense of realtor's commissions, legal fees, closing costs, etc., but who have not
had any previous experience with selling a home on their own. One of best features of the book is that
author discusses issues that must be looked at such as plumbing and electrical problems, and provides
concise well-defined lists for things to think of and things to do before placing the house on the market.
She also does this in the same fashion with "staging" the home. How to de-clutter to make your home
appealing to buyers. Case studies also provide money saving tips such as how to repair broken
baseboards, filling in nail holes, etc. These lists make it so easy to see the nuts and bolts of what needs
to be done, offering ideas of things the seller might have never thought about. There are some "extra
goodies" such as telling the buyer to cover cabinet bottoms with attractive shelf paper, setting up a
gmail account JUST for selling your home so that emails don't get lost among all of your other email,
and the "Homes on Mobile Phones" service. Signing up allows you to put a number on your for sale
sign, and when people text the number to a certain telephone, they receive information about the home
on their cellphone. The only drawbacks I saw during my review was the information on the psychology
of selling a home. The emotional issues are there, but they are not going to help you sell your home.
Simply saying that the selling of the house is not a personal issue, but a business issue should suffice.
There is also a lot of information about real estate, seller's markets, buyer's markets, the history of the
real estate market, etc. that clutters up the beginning of the book. Otherwise, the book is an excellent
resource for those wanting to avoid real estate agents, avoid the mistakes that uninformed sellers make,
and take advantage of the knowledge gained throughout the years by people who have chosen to go the
route of For Sale by Owner.
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Save money on realtor fees by FSBOApr 20, 2010
By Nina Davidson
"tamaren_books"
"The Homeowner's Guide to For Sale by Owner" by Jackie Bondanza offers
practical advice for homeowners trying to avoid hefty realtor fees.
Bondanza offers specific tips on pricing, staging and marketing your
home as a successful FSBO. The book also details clauses to include
when negotiating contracts, and a boilerplate contract comes with the
CD-ROM included with book.
The book is easy-to-read and informative, and the glossary is
especially helpful for homeowners trying to navigate "realtor speak."
The case studies provide real-world-examples,but all of them are
slanted toward the pros of the FSBO process without the cons.
Including one case study about a situation where the homeowner opted
not to do FSBO could have been helpful as well. The book could have
also gone into more detail about hiring real-estate attorneys.
Overall, the book was a helpful guide for the FSBO process. With home
values declining in several parts of the country, there's more
incentive than ever to sell without paying realtor fees.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Good place to startJun 09, 2011
By Irene Watson
The author of this book is neither a real estate agent or broker nor does she give any indication that she has sold her own home. Her expertise is freelance writing and helping others develop books. After reading the bio I wondered how good this book would really be.
The author did do research and does give much information for the first time seller of his or her own home. Being in real estate myself and selling many homes through an agent or on my own I felt that the information given is valuable and correct. I also feel that if the homeowner followed the suggestions, especially the staging aspects, that success could be achieved.
There are many aspects to consider when selling a home and I'm sure that after reading this book the seller will be able to decide if the savings of money selling the home oneself would outweigh the expertise of an agent.
I do recommend this book, not only for those contemplating selling their own home but those using a real estate agent. I'm sure you'd glean information that your agent didn't or isn't going to tell you.
Read first before selling your home!May 13, 2012
By HeatherMS
"The Homeowner's Guide to FOR SALE BY OWNER" was written by Jackie Bondanza about what a homeowner can do to sell their home. It is directed towards people who wish to sell their home by themselves and not with a realtor. But if you are using a realtor, then this book is just as important for you. The information given is applicable to both the person selling on their own and those selling using an agent.
The book covers many areas such as "Selling in a Buyer's Market versus a Seller's Market," how to price your home, getting the home ready to show, marketing your home, and how to handle the contracts and documents which are part of every sale.
Although this book states in the title that it is for those who wish to sell on their own, this book is just as relevant to the person who chooses to go through a real estate agent. I really liked the part of the book that discussed how to stage your home. The author covers the living room (i.e. to arrange furniture around the fireplace to help accentuate it", the kitchen (which can make or break a deal), the master bedroom, extra bedrooms, the dining room, the bathrooms, entrances and exits and also how to stage a home office or basement if you have them. She even gives hints on the proper way to photograph your home and the common mistakes that sellers do when photographing their home and which pictures you should put online. At the end of the book she covers the costs associated with selling the home such as which costs are typically paid by the buyer, the seller and which fees are negotiable that can be paid by either.
This book is chock full of information and would benefit any person who wishes to sell their home. It can help take some of the anxiety out by providing the seller the information that is needed to get their home. It is written so that it does not overwhelm the reader.
My only complaint is the CD-ROM that came with it. I have Microsoft 2010 on my computer and I was unable to pull up any of the documents on the CD-ROM. This was disappointing since the information on it included Contract of Offer and Acceptance, Deed of Sale, Buyers Purchase Agreement, and other documents that the seller will need to know about. The good news is that you don't need the CD-ROM to benefit from the information in this book.
 It's OKSep 16, 2011
By Jack
I was looking more for a case by case "How To" and not such a broad general description of all possible scenarios
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