Want to hang on to your home's equity? Join the roughly 20% of homeowners who have sold their homes without a realtor. Buyers can also save and gain advantage when working without a realtor. Read this book and find out: What's the most common mistake For Sale By Owner sellers make in marketing their homes, and how can you avoid it? What are the critically important ways to set up your ad online so buyers can identify you as a FSBO and contact you easily? Do realtors truly sell homes for more money than FSBO? (Hint: no) What's the best way to allow people to view your home? How to you maximize the impact of your advertising, especially your pictures and home description, which are the first peek buyers get of your home? How do you navigate the paperwork and legal details of a sale without a realtor? How can you buy without a realtor, and what advantages does this give you? How do you prepare your home to sell to make it the most attractive to buyers? How hard it is to sell your own home, and how much time will it take? Author Donna Rucinski bought and sold 6 homes, many times without the assistance of a realtor on either side of the transaction. She's advertised in the wrong places, had deals fall through, priced too high and trusted the wrong people. Despite it all, she's managed to save approximately $68,000 on realtor's commissions over 40 years of doing For Sale By Owner (FSBO), and buying without realtors. Her advice has helped family and friends do the same, and all the information she shared with them is contained in this book. It's easy to read and navigate with summaries of important points and a 10-step checklist for completing your own home sale. Even if you decide to use a realtor to sell your house, this book has information that will help you enter into that contract with confidence. Learn from her mistakes and successes by reading this book based on a lifetime of experience navigating buying and selling homes without the help of a realtor.
