The Complete Idiot's Guide to Selling your Own Home [Paperback]

Jeffrey J. Wuorio (Author), forsalebyowner.com (Author), Marcia Layton Turner (Author)

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About the Author

Jeffrey Wuorio is a speaker and author whose articles have appeared in the New York Times, Money Magazine, BusinessWeek, and Consumer Reports. He’s appeared on CBS, NBC, NPR, and Money Matters. His books include How to Buy and Sell Just About Everything. forsalebyowner.com is the only national residential property network combining both online and offline property listings. Alongside its premier Internet guide, it distributes 1.2 million magazines.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Alpha (December 6, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592574408
• ISBN-13: 978-1592574407
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,011,042 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars For the do-it-yourself home seller, January 18, 2006

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Virginia Allain "(retired librarian)" (Poinciana, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Selling your Own Home (Paperback)

Maybe you've watched "Designed to Sell" on HGTV and think your home will bring big bucks and an easy sale. This author covers the options for selling their house without a realtor.
The Complete Idiot's website describes the book as: "Whether readers are willing to pay a small commission for online help or a flat fee for an MLS listing, or they want to handle every step on their own, this guide will walk them through the process, providing tips on everything from signs and open houses to appraisals and inspections. Also includes a CD with sample contracts, boilerplate forms, checklists, and more."
We tried listing our home online (the freebie real estate sites) two years ago. I still get inquiries from those listings, but none were ever real people looking for a home. It did get us lots of calls from people wanting to sell us services related to selling a home.
Finally we sold the home through a realtor. Maybe if we'd had this book, our results without the realtor would have been more successful.
One thing they don't cover in the book is using newspaper ads. I'd recommend getting several books on this topic before attempting to sell your home yourself.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Book with good information, March 13, 2006

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Julie Dana "TheHomeStylist.com" (East Aurora, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Selling your Own Home (Paperback)

I think this book gives a nice global picture of what it takes to sell your own home. The book description states there is a CD with forms. My book copy did not have one nor is CD refered to in the book but the appendix has plenty of forms and sample reports. One reviewer stated that there is no mention of newspaper ads but Chapter 5 begins right off with newspaper ads.
Overall, it is a good book with helpful information.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars helpful book, August 28, 2007

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J. Vineyard (Indy, Indiana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Selling your Own Home (Paperback)

This book is really helpful for anyone thinking about selling their home. It has a wide variety of info even things I hadnt considered. I gave it 4 out of 5 because I was hoping for more lists and checklist type things inside but as far as being easy to understand, its great.