For Sale By Owner : How to Sell Your Home Yourself and Save Thousands of Dollars in Real Estate Commissions [Paperback]

Lee Burbidge (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 1992

For Sale By Owner is a four step program that teaches individuals to sell their own homes in a correct and professional manner. It teaches them how to price their home correctly, how to properly present their home, how to market it effectively and how to close the sale.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Lee Burbidge has been in the real estate industry for the past 30 years. Mr. Burbidge has been involved in residential real estate as a broker and developer in the western united states and Canada. He is an author and speaker.

Product Details

• Paperback: 81 pages
• Publisher: Lee E. Burbidge, Inc. (June 1, 1992)
• ISBN-10: 0966847008
• ISBN-13: 978-0966847000
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,765,111 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Look for a different book, May 16, 2000

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Richard J. Hughes - See all my reviews

This review is from: For Sale By Owner : How to Sell Your Home Yourself and Save Thousands of Dollars in Real Estate Commissions (Paperback)

Don't buy this!

The "book" is a bunch of photocopied papers, many of which are just there as space filler (e.g., a ream of sample appraisal forms -- you already saw these when you bought your house, there's no need to see multiple pages of the appraisal form for another propert).

The video is especially bad; it just drips sleaze. It conveys the image of the sleazy salesman remininscent of the cheap promotional videos that you'll occasionally catch on the TV.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Apply the cost of this towards a real-estate attorney, June 15, 2000

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Bill R (Audubon, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: For Sale By Owner : How to Sell Your Home Yourself and Save Thousands of Dollars in Real Estate Commissions (Paperback)

I can guarantee the people that sold their houses in one day didn't need this "book" to do it. They would have sold regardless. There's very little real information in here. It basically tells you to clean up your house and make it presentable (common sense). Most of the audio talks about writing a newspaper add (just read some of the ones by realtors and mimic their styles). It really lacks the most important information needed by any home seller, marketing. Newspaper ads can work, but it shouldn't be the only technique used. The author doesn't even touch other areas of marketing like flyers, grocery stores, local businesses, the internet, or sending letters to all your neighbors offering a finder's fee. He also assumes everyone sells houses in the summer and fails to talk about what to do in the off peak times.

Most of the photocopied examples you can get from any decent real-estate attorney. Since you'll probably hire one anyway, save your money on this waste of paper.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sold my house the first day., March 16, 2000

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Evan Lord (Salt Lake City. UT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: For Sale By Owner : How to Sell Your Home Yourself and Save Thousands of Dollars in Real Estate Commissions (Paperback)

My guess is that whoever wrote the one-star review on this booklet/video/audio set either created a competing product, or has never laid eyes on "For Sale By Owner." This product is teeming with little known realtor tricks that would never occur to an average homeowner, as well as industry procedures and techniques. I have recommended this set to a number of friends -- all of whom ultimately enjoyed similar results to mine. The bottom line on "For Sale By Owner" is that it's everything the real estate industry never wants you to know about marketing your own home. Come to think of it, the person who wrote the one-star review is probably a realtor. I sold my house in a day. I can see why this product makes real estate types break into a sweat.