This step-by-step guide offers the tactics used by home stagers--from de-cluttering and cleaning up to arranging and remodeling--that will often yield a quicker sale and higher selling price.

In good times and bad, the home-seller's bible . . . In today's uncertain real estate market, sellers are deeply concerned with getting the most value for their homes. Now more than ever, readers need books that will help them find the most effective ways to make their homes attractive to buyers, save money, and make the sales process easier. This unique guide will teach readers everything real estate agents and brokers know—and more! • Reflects changes in the real estate market in the past several years—and explains how to deal with the market no matter when the reader is looking to sell

So you ve decided you want to sell your house, but the idea of paying 7% to a broker just seems like money thrown away. Well, as many FSBO s have found, it can get pretty complicated. The Complete Idiot s Guide to Selling Your Own Homeprovides the most comprehensive coverage for selling your home on your own. Whether you re going to pay a small commission for online help or a flat fee for an MLS listing, or you want to handle every step of the sale on your own, this new Complete Idiot s Guidewill help walk readers through the process - providing tons of tips on everything from signs and open houses to appraisals and inspections. And the included CD provides sample contracts, boilerplate forms, and checklists to help readers at every step along the way.

Whether they re buying their first time, moving up to something new, downsizing, or buying for an investment, people interested in real estate are proving themselves to be very savvy. They are interested in books that will help them in their research, save them money, make the process easier, and help them feel they re getting the best deal they can. In short, they want to know what real estate agents and brokers know! While other books cater to the first-time home buyer or only tout the benefits of letting an agent do all the work, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buying and Selling a Home, Fifth Edition, gives a more complete approach that's already popular with readers today. With terrific word of mouth and great reviews, this top-selling guide focuses on a total approach to buying a new home.

Explains how to locate a house to buy, negotiate an offer, get a mortgage, use the Internet to finance and sell one's home, increase resale value, and sell without a real estate agent.

Using everyday language and straight-forward examples, this resource covers all areas of real estate buying and selling on the Internet--from financing and choosing and agent to researching neighborhoods and negotiating a sale or purchase.

Smart shopping in a buyeras market. Itas a buyeras market out there. But with so many homes for sale, buyers can be overwhelmed by choice. How can they be certain theyare making the right decision? The answers are here in this easy-to-use book of checklists focusing on every single aspect of the home buying procedure, from where to start looking to closing costs. A-Finding affordable homes A-Scoping out neighborhoods A-Includes the questions that should be asked of agents, brokers, and sellers A-For first-time buyers and experienced ones