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Buying and Selling Real estate by Owner

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I'm sure Mr. Gracey had an honest desire to provide a decent How-to book for people interested in buying and selling their own home. Yet the book needed a professional proofreader to help with grammar mistakes and even more needed an editor to smooth out the focus and transition of the book.

Readers will find several tips in the book useful. Yet the tiny book (less than 50 pages) is flawed with a lack of a concise game plan and lack of national knowledge of real estate: Example: (in bold print by author) "Of course a good $100,000.00 house is unheard of at today's prices." page 18

Perhaps in his hobo days Mr. Gracey should have traveled beyond Silicon Valley's enormously inflated real estate and seen the rest of America. Yes, Mr. Gracey, a $100,000 house can be quite good, in fact downright affluent in some parts of the country. My house in Texas was purchased for $105,000 in 1998 and would sell for over $750,000 in the metro areas of California.

At times Mr. Gracey turns a nice phrase: "Because you will receive phone calls from real estate agents telling you they have a buyer for your property, in most cases they only have a suspect." page 28

I found some useful tips in the preparing for escrow payments and showing a house.

Thanks Gracey, I believe I can now sell my home by myself. Mr. Gracey has the guts to speak out about "Buying and Selling your home by Owner". Mr. Gracey has stated before that if someone is unhappy they are entitled to a refund if they send the book to hin along with a receipt from amazon.com. A comment noted; A real estate agent will edit the next printing for a 6% commission (the normal real estate fee.) He should edit his own review. I found Mr. Gracey's book, "Buying and Selling Real Estate by Owner" to be a very easy to read and to understand. Us common folk appreciate it when someone writes that way.

This book is just common sense, notional, and opininated BS. Out of the 64 pages, only 40 of it is text. The text is Arial 12cpi, with lots of margin. Word count is roughly 1000, for the whole "book". There's a section in the back for "houses visited" and "notes". I really feel ripped off!! This book really deserves no "stars". I want my money back!!!!

I liked the review by Midwest Book review by James Cox, he is a real Pro. I notice that some real estate agents do not like "Real Estate for sale by Owner" So they write negative reviews. This book was edited by an English Professor at University of Nevada, Reno. One so-called reviewer said that he would edit the book for a 6% fee. The book has gotten many good reviews that can be seen at: www.EverettGracey.com

This is a great book for the beginner or first time home seller. It also has some nice tips that will help you sell your home for top dollar through a real estate agent.I found this book to be easy to read and will use many of the authors ideas when I sell or buy a home. Purchase this book and you may same thousands for only a few dollars and a little reading time.

We sold our first house after one Open House and reading Buying and Selling Real Estate "by Owner". Buying and Selling is a very useful and practical guide that explains the process in plain English. When you don't have time to become a broker and would rather keep the 6% sales commission for yourself, Gracey gives you all the information you'll need.

Buying / Selling sums up just about every question a novice seller / buyer has. It was clear and consise on questions every buyer / seller would have. Very informative.

This book is for everyone who does not have an uncle in the business. It contains information that is pertinent for every transaction. A definent must for every person who is entering the real estate market for the first time.The reader will carry knowledge from this book for as long as he buys and sells real estate. Do not buy your first home before reading this book!

I'd highly recommend this book for anyone interested in learning the practical aspects of selling your own home! Mr. Gracey has done a wonderful job in translating Real Estate terminology into an easy to follow guide, and I'm happy to report it's paid off already for me. This book is a "must" for anyone jumping into today's hot Real Estate marketplace yet one will learn quite a bit from the book for dealing with a down market as well.

Stop right now! If you're contemplating the purchase of this book, put the thought out of your mind and move on. This slim paperback should never have made it to the manuscript stage. If you can get past the typos, poor grammer, and sloppy dictation -- because surely someone read this into a tape recorder then had it typed by a fool -- you will find nothing of substance that couldn't be gained from an article in the Sunday newspaper real estate section. I'm shocked that Amazon.com would even bother to list it, it's that bad. I'm returning it. Please don't even get that far!