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Reviews"Author Ilona Bray won the first place Gold Award in the Robert Bruss competition for her book: Selling Your House: Nolo's Essential Guide, published by NOLO. The awards recognize excellence in books published in 2015 covering the broad field of real estate. NAREE's (National Association of Real Estate Editors) judges commented that Bray's book is a clear, thorough handbook on selling a house and judges noted the helpful tips served as good preparation for those who may not have been in the market for a while." "With the help of real estate agents and home sellers who contributed stories and tips, Bray presents the big picture: key steps for selling your home. She recommends reviewing these steps before diving into the process of learning what to expect and seeing how the different pieces fit together. The book covers getting your property ready for sale, selecting a real estate agent, lawyer, and accountant, learning about disclosure laws, marketing tools, and your house sale contract, among other things." Eithne O'Leyne, Editor, ProtoView "Another helpful offering from a company goes out of its way to provide timely material." Tom Kelly, nationally syndicated columnist and author. "Nolo's Selling Your House is a good way to dip your feet in the housing market without getting wet". Midwest Book Review, Peggy Tibbetts, Reviewer Author Comments: This was a fun book to write, as it involved talking to a people with multiple perspectives on the process of selling a homereal estate agents, stagers, inspectors, attorneys, and so on. Each brought a depth of knowledge that can only be gained through years of experience. They have seen not only how home-sale transactions go right, but how they can quickly go awryand how to get them back on track., "Author Ilona Bray won the first place Gold Award in the Robert Bruss competition for her book: Selling Your House: Nolo's Essential Guide, published by NOLO. The awards recognize excellence in books published in 2015 covering the broad field of real estate. NAREE's (National Association of Real Estate Editors) judges commented that Bray's book is a clear, thorough handbook on selling a house and judges noted the helpful tips served as good preparation for those who may not have been in the market for a while." "With the help of real estate agents and home sellers who contributed stories and tips, Bray presents the big picture: key steps for selling your home. She recommends reviewing these steps before diving into the process of learning what to expect and seeing how the different pieces fit together. The book covers getting your property ready for sale, selecting a real estate agent, lawyer, and accountant, learning about disclosure laws, marketing tools, and your house sale contract, among other things." Eithne O'Leyne, Editor, ProtoView "Another helpful offering from a company goes out of its way to provide timely material." Tom Kelly, nationally syndicated columnist and author. "Nolo's Selling Your House is a good way to dip your feet in the housing market without getting wet". Midwest Book Review, Peggy Tibbetts, Reviewer
Table Of ContentIntroduction: What's Ahead in Selling Your Home1. First Steps: What You Can Do NOW to Get Ready to Sell2. Getting Expert Help: Hiring a Real Estate Agent, Lawyer, and Accountant 3. Prep Work: Pre Inspections, Repairs, and Improvements4. Telling Buyers What You Know: Disclosure Laws5. Spiffing Up Your House: Decluttering, Cleaning, and Staging6. Pricing Your House to Sell'e"and Sell High7. Websites, Open Houses, and Other Marketing Tools8. Receiving and Evaluating Offers9. Demystifying Your House Sale Contract10. Keeping Up Momentum, From Escrow to Closing11. Selling Without an Agent: Smart or Scary?Index
SynopsisWhether your local real estate market is strong or sluggish, you can take effective steps to reach the right buyers, pick the best offer, and ultimately get top dollar for your home. Selling Your House: Nolo's Essential Guide will take you through the process from start to finish. And, you'll learn how to do it all in the shortest possible time. Real estate expert and best-selling author Ilona Bray gives you the inside scoop on: setting a price that will attract buyers, finding the right real estate agent, safely opening your home to visitors, determining which repairs and upgrades pay off, making legally required disclosures to buyers, evaluating purchase offers, and, negotiating and closing escrow successfully. Provides tips from industry pros-including real estate agents, attorneys, home stagers, and more-as well as stories from home sellers. With this book, you get access to a companion webpage on Nolo.com where you can: stay current with legal updates to this book, download handy checklists. Plus, in Nolo.com's Real Estate center, you'll find even more help from the experts at Nolo: hundreds of valuable articles and FAQs, useful legal forms and calculators. And if you decide you'd like a lawyer's help, you can visit our other sites, Lawyers.com and Avvo.com, for free, in-depth profiles of lawyers in your area., Make the real estate market work for you! Whether your local real estate market is strong or sluggish, you can take effective steps to reach the right buyers, pick the best offer, and ultimately get top dollar for your home. Selling Your House: Nolo's Essential Guide will take you through the process from start to finish. And, you'll learn how to do it all in the shortest possible time.Real estate expert and best-selling author Ilona Bray gives you the inside scoop on: setting a price that will attract buyers finding the right real estate agent safely opening your home to visitors determining which repairs and upgrades pay off making legally required disclosures to buyers evaluating purchase offers, and negotiating and closing escrow successfully. Provides tips from industry pros--including real estate agents, attorneys, home stagers, and more--as well as stories from home sellers., A home seller's best friend, offering guidance from industry insiders to succesfully preparing, marketing, negotiating over, and ultimately closing the sale of one's residential property. An award-winning customer favorite, this book provides sellers with step-by-step guidance on preparing their home for sale, hiring a real estate agent, helping successfully market the property, and finally selling at the best possible price.