How to Sell Your Home Without a Broker

by Chantal Howell Carey, Bill Carey, Suzanne Kiffmann

Book Overview

Invaluable advice, tips, and guidelines for selling your home the affordable way--yourself

With the high commissions being charged in today's housing market and the convenience of the Internet as a selling tool, many Americans find it more affordable to sell their own homes. This new edition of the indispensable home seller's how-to guide can save you thousands of dollars in real estate fees and commissions by showing you how to successfully market, negotiate, close, and wrap up the sale of your home-without paying a broker's high fees.

Updated and revised to reflect all the latest trends in real estate, this popular classic takes you through the ABCs of doing it yourself-from making a plan to making a profit when you close. Selling your own home can be tricky; this Fourth Edition provides all the tools and advice you need to save on fees, with:
* Worksheets, checklists, sample contracts, and other helpful documents
* New chapters on seller financing and second mortgages
* The latest tax law changes that affect home sellers
* Tips on how to get a buyer to assume your existing mortgage
* Guidance on using the Internet to sell your home
* Information on using land sale contracts, contracts for deed, wrap-around mortgages, and all-inclusive trust deeds (AITDs)


With its step-by-step guidance and its wealth of helpful tools, How to Sell Your Home Without a Broker will help you find a buyer as quickly-and cheaply-as possible.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471668540
• ISBN13: 9780471668541
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Very Helpful

We found this book to be very helpful. It covered all the bases of selling a house yourself and what you should look out for. This book also contains sample contracts that were extremely helpful. We simply made copies from the book, filled them out, signed them and took them to the title company.

How To Sell Your Home Without A Broker

Without a doubt, I found it the very best, most comprehensive book on the market for homeowners looking to develop a plan of action for selling their property on their own. Different from most similar FSBO books because it contains dozens of very helpful worksheets to help the homeowner get through the process of selling on their own...