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    A Guide for Home Sellers
    A Guide for Home Sellers
    A Guide for Home Sellers
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    A Guide for Home Sellers

    By Valerie Hockert, PhD

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    Are you thinking of selling your home?
    Learn from qualified professionals in the real estate industry:
    • How to make your house show favorably on a drive-by.
    • The twelve rules of house selling.
    • What to look for in what can be one of the major expenses in a home.
    • Five tips that can help you sell your house.
    • How windows help sell a home.
    • How to increase your house's appeal with homespun touches.
    • How overpricing can be a dangerous thing.
    • How going to open houses can help in selling your home.
    • How to sell your home yourself.
    • Or how to select a good real estate agent.
    This book is a collection of articles that were written as individual reports for the home seller. After reading the entire book, you should be well-equipped to sell your home.
    Happy house selling!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJustice Gray
    Release dateJan 30, 2014
    ISBN9781311877567
    A Guide for Home Sellers
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    Valerie Hockert, PhD

    Valerie Hockert, was born in the Midwest where she has lived all her adult life. She has had much life experience through her various entrepreneurial life. She has a Master's Degree in Liberal Studies, and a PhD in Literary Studies. Dr. Hockert has been teaching at a college level for many years. She was the first publisher of the Writers' Journal and Today's Family, two national publications. She is also a certified personal trainer, great chef, and the Publisher of an e-magazine: www.realitytodayforum.com.

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      Book preview

      A Guide for Home Sellers - Valerie Hockert, PhD

      A Guide for Home Sellers

      Valerie Hockert, Editor

      Copyright 2014, 2012, RealityTodayForum, reprinted by permission from Up-to-Date Real Estate/E-Tech Publishing.

      Copyright 1998, Up-to-Date Real Estate/E-Tech Publishing.

      All rights reserved.

      Smashwords Edition

      No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of author.

      Valerie Hockert, Editor

      CollProf@aol.com

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Would You Buy Your House Again?

      Twelve Rules in House Selling

      Four Quick and Easy (and Inexpensive) Ways to Prepare Your Home for Sale

      What About Windows?

      Windows Help Sell a Home

      Five Tips That Can Help in Selling Your House

      Increase Your House’s Appeal with Homespun Touches

      Tips to Impress Buyers: Little Touches Make the Difference

      A Seller’s Checklist

      Overpricing Can Be a Dangerous Thing

      Choosing a Good Real Estate Agent

      Looking For Someone to Sell Your Home?

      Introduction

      This book is a collection of articles that were written as individual reports for the home seller. After reading the entire book, you should be well-equipped to sell your home.

      Happy selling!

      Valerie Hockert

      Would You Buy Your House Again?

      By Mary C. McCoon

      Most house hunters want to see the outside of a house before they make an appointment to see the inside. They want to drive through the neighborhood and see if it's an area they feel comfortable with and see how people maintain their homes and yards. Any real estate agent will tell you that location and first impression will sell a house. Now that you have decided to sell, you should ask yourself if your house would rate favorably on a drive-by.

      When was the last time you parked your car at the bottom of the driveway or at the curb and scrutinized your property? Can you see that hanging tree limb that got struck by lightning in that storm last October? You probably duck under it every morning on your way down the drive. You've been meaning to cut it down, but haven't done it yet. How about that broken front entry light? You're used to fumbling around in the dark for your key so you haven't fixed it yet. What about the blacktop heaves in the driveway and the shrubbery you've been meaning to prune? Get these repairs done before you start to show your property. To a prospective buyer, your house represents a tremendous financial investment and probably the largest long term commitment that buyer will make in a lifetime. Cleaning up the outside is the first step toward preparing your home to show.

      The following is a standard list of things to check, clean, repair and replace. Remember that you don't want to spend a lot of money in costly repairs or cosmetic remodeling. Your objective is to spruce up the outside areas to make your house and yard inviting to a stranger.

      * Here are a few places to check: front entry, roof and gutters, exterior walls and siding, windows and shutters, landscaping, driveway, fencing and enclosures, outbuildings, patio and furniture, garbage cans. What do these things look like? Some may look

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