Sell Your Home for Top Dollar--FAST! Design Psychology for Redesign and Home Staging [Paperback]

Jeanette Fisher (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2005

Explore new ways to prepare your home or investment properties for selling through Design Psychology, a science and art that reinvents interior design. Design Psychology expert Jeanette Fisher shares researched-based secrets to selling houses for more than the competition. Design Psychology attracts buyers who won't hesitate to pay top dollar for a home's emotional and lifestyle benefits. Discover how to redesign or fix up homes with design elements known to attract specific potential buyers. Develop a strategic design and marketing plan to make changes that help buyers connect to your house on an emotional level. Prepare your home for sale by eliciting positive responses from a buyer who can see, hear, smell, feel, and even taste that they want to buy your home. The step-by-step book offers easy ways to prepare your home for sale, along with ways to use marketing psychology to Sell Your Home for Top Dollar-FAST! Read Jeanette Fisher's latest book and find out how to: • Redesign with color psychology, lighting, landscaping, and other strategies to create spaces that make buyers feel happy and uplifted in your home. • Stage your home to suggest ways a buyer will enjoy an improved lifestyle if they buy your home. • Market your home to highlight its emotional benefits and make it stand out from all other houses on the market. • Sell your home to motivated buyers who bring great offers to your front door. Don't just compete with other home-sellers: redesign your home with Design Psychology so buyers compete with each other for your home!

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About the Author

Jeanette Fisher discovered her unique brand of Design Psychology methods when her family renovated a Queen Anne Victorian home in Palatka, Florida. Fisher has researched how people respond to interior design details for over 15 years, enhancing her own successful real estate investment career with research from the University of Florida, Harvard University, and the University of California. Jeanette Fisher also wrote Home Staging for Top-Dollar Sales, Doghouse to Dollhouse for Dollars: Using Design Psychology to Increase Real Estate Profits, Joy to the Home: Residential Design Psychology for Happiness and Well-Being, and other books. Besides flipping houses, Jeanette teaches Design Psychology and real estate investing.

Product Details

• Paperback: 204 pages
• Publisher: Family Trust Publishing (July 2005)
• ISBN-10: 0974932841
• ISBN-13: 978-0974932842
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,444,254 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars this book will make you a lot of money--that simple!, July 21, 2005

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michael carman "houseman" (kansas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sell Your Home for Top Dollar--FAST! Design Psychology for Redesign and Home Staging (Paperback)

i've been leasing and buying and selling houses for twenty years. if i'd have had all of the ideas and suggestions in ms fisher's book when i started it would have saved me much stress and made me perhaps an exra hundred thousand dollars or so. i am rehabbing a house to sell at this time and i know this book will not only make me an extra three thousand dollars (minimum), but i feel it will sell in less than two weeks and probably a week. this is powerful stuff. you're not spending thirty dollars on this book, you'll MAKE easily 100 times that much from one sale using the ideas in this book. you won't be disappointed. this book is a true investment. get it.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Insight, July 22, 2005

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Odioso "Evan" (Irvine, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sell Your Home for Top Dollar--FAST! Design Psychology for Redesign and Home Staging (Paperback)

This is full of good tips and tricks and really helps clarify some of the important issues when trying to sell homes. It really helped me understand the basics of how to get our home to look its best.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good book but no pictures, January 15, 2006

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H. Ha - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sell Your Home for Top Dollar--FAST! Design Psychology for Redesign and Home Staging (Paperback)

A picture says a thousand words. The chapters on colors for the exterior and interior have left me more confused than ever. This book should have color photos in that section with examples of how she coordinates the different colors in the rooms and the exterior for different markets. Sure the colors in the photos won't be an exact match of how house the looks in natural light, but they still would have displayed for us more clearly about the concepts. The pictures that were in the book are black and white and more for decoration. That's my only criticism. So I docked it 1 star, If it had pictures, it would definitely be 5 stars!

The book has many tips and tricks to help the homeseller, even some that are inexpensive. They will give you the look of having spent alot of money, without actually having to spend alot of money. I would include examples, but that would be giving away the book for free. An investor with a year of experience was thumbing through my book, she definitely thought it was interesting and will order a copy.

I am waiting for glossy photo picture book. Or maybe a photo blog from Jeanette on her rehabs. Or maybe a bonus photo CD in the next book. I'll be the first one there.