Sell Your Home Yourself: Stop Paying a Realtor Commission and Put That Money in Your Own Pocket
By Diane Funk
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This book provides detailed steps to selling a home without using a realtor. It is full of helpful information to assist anyone in selling their home. This book will help with determining sale price, marketing, etc. The advantage to selling on your own is the savings on the commission to a realtor, which could be thousands of dollars. Put that money in your own pocket; it's easy.
Diane Funk
My name is Diane and I am an entrepreneur; which is defined as someone who 'assumes risk in order to combine knowledge, capital, and resources to create a venture that will hopefully return a profit'. Although, I do not rely on hope as much as I do prayer. I am a "born again" christian and I believe God has a plan and purpose for my life and for your life as well.I am also an artist; I paint with acrylics and water paints and add pressed flowers from my garden to my pictures. The cover of my book is one of my paintings.I also enjoy gardening and my husband and I have a 10 acre ranch with lots of different types of animals that we care for. We also just started our own generator sales business.I have one daughter, four step-children, and nine grandchildren and I cherish each and every one of them.I sincerely hope that you enjoy my book and I intend to do more writing in the near future.
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Sell Your Home Yourself - Diane Funk
SELL YOUR HOME YOURSELF:
Stop Paying a Realtor Commission,
Put That Money in Your Own Pocket
Published by Diane Funk at Smashwords
Copyright 2010 Diane M. Funk
Smashwords Edition, License Notes
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This booklet contains the author’s opinions. Some material in this book may be affected by changes in the law (or changes in interpretations of the law) or a change in market conditions since the booklet was prepared. Therefore, the accuracy and completeness of the information contained in this booklet and the opinions based on it cannot be guaranteed. Neither the author nor the publisher is engaged in rendering investment, legal, tax, accounting, or other similar professional services. If these services are required, the reader should obtain them from a competent professional. The publisher and author hereby specifically disclaim any liability for loss incurred as a consequence of following any advice or applying information presented in this booklet.
Testimonial: "the title of Diane's first chapter 'You Can Do It', says it all! You can do it because we did! Her book was a great resource, taking us through all the phases of selling our home. The book is easy to read and full of excellent tips. After only 11 days of marketing our home we had an offer, 30 days later we had a check. With the help of her book we kept the profits in our pocket instead of paying a realtor. - By Anne Bloomfield, 4/10/01
Cover Artwork by Diane Funk, Relaxation Time
acrylic paints and pressed flowers from my garden.
CONTENTS:
YOU CAN DO IT!
GETTING STARTED
DETERMINE SALE PRICE
PREPARE YOUR HOME
MARKETING STEPS
SIGN
FLYER
NEWSPAPER AD
INTERNET LISTING
OPEN HOME
OFFERS
FINANCING
SALES CONTRACT
ESCROW
CLOSING
MOVING TIME
POCKET COMMISSION $$$
1. YOU CAN DO IT
You can sell your home yourself. If I can do it, you can do it. I have not had training in real estate transactions but I sold my home myself without listing with a realtor. Every year a larger number of homeowners sell their properties themselves without the assistance of a real estate agent. Many people assume that an agent is the only way to sell real estate. But more people are finding out that they do have a choice. Some estimates show that up to 20 percent of the homes on the market today are For Sale by Owner or FSBO pronounced fizz-bo
. You CAN sell it yourself and I am going to show you how!
As the seller, it is difficult to justify the high cost of commission to a real estate brokerage firm when you can do most of what a realtor can do. It is not as complicated as you may think. The commission is simply the fee you pay to a real estate broker for securing a buyer who is ready, willing, and able to pay the price and comply with the terms that you have specified for the sale of your property. In these next few chapters, I am going to show you step by step how to find a buyer and accomplish your goal of selling your home.
My biggest incentive for selling on my own, which is the same for many others who have sold on their own, was to save on the cost of the commission. I bought my home when the market was high. When I sold my home five years later, it appraised for less than what I had paid for it. It would have cost me money to sell my home if I had used a realtor. Instead, I sold it myself and got money back after the balance of the mortgage was paid. The commission would have taken most