Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    A Conversation about Selling Your House
    A Conversation about Selling Your House
    A Conversation about Selling Your House
    Ebook59 pages40 minutes

    A Conversation about Selling Your House

    By Personal Endeavors

    4/5

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Would you give a stranger your wallet if you were asked for it? What about real estate? Don't we trust strangers in real estate all of the time? We have many conversations about that in our office which we often wish others can hear as we go through our research findings, analyze consumer behavior, etc. Selling real estate or more specifically selling a house is something that has made some glad while making others sad. Some got it right while others got it wrong. Why did the others get it wrong? They needed to equip themselves with decent information to help make better decisions with regard to selling their property. They needed to know to ask questions and discern what those questions should really be. The only wrong question is the one that is not asked, right? This is why we decided to condense our conversations into a written form, namely this book. The shared information in A Conversation about Selling Your House can help young military homeowners and their civilian counterparts as well as older homeowners who are looking to sell their property. We hope the book enlightens and helps enhance the selling process for Team You.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPersonal Endeavors
    Release dateJun 12, 2015
    ISBN9781310605505
    A Conversation about Selling Your House
    Author

    Personal Endeavors

    We are very happy to be with Smashwords as we bring our authors a better way for their voices to be heard. Personal Endeavors is a virtual publishing company whose books are about inclusion, empowerment, self-advocacy, and self-determination. We publish self-help, how-to's, other non-fiction as well as fiction.

    Related to A Conversation about Selling Your House

    Related ebooks

    Business For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Mental Journey

      Jun 27, 2019

      Awesome! You’re ready to buy an investment property, either your first, or maybe in an area you haven’t purchased in before. You’ve done your homework, have your finance lined up, all the correct tax structures in place and the best possible property

      3 min read

    • Article

      How To Spot A Deal

      Dec 19, 2019

      Let’s say a property is marketed at a particular price – for argument’s sake we’ll call it $500,000. An inexperienced investor will make the automatic assumption that a “deal” is significantly less than the asking price. But that’s not the case. Ther

      2 min read

    • Article

      Post Covid-19: What To Believe

      Jul 30, 2020

      The accompanying photo shows two different news headlines in New Zealand on exactly the same day. If you go searching it won’t be too difficult to find other similar examples of contradictory “news”. It’s a perfect example of “never let the truth get

      2 min read

    • Article

      The "Real" Cost of Buying a Home

      Aug 2, 2021

      What's up, everybody? This is Brandon Copeland, aka Professor Copeland. You are now tuned in to another episode of Cope'ing With Money. On this episode of Cope'ing With Money, we're looking at something, as usual, very near and dear to my heart, but

      8 min read

    • Article

      Near Enough Is Good Enough

      Oct 1, 2020

      It seems that currently trying to find a “good deal” is as easy as sourcing toilet paper was back just before the April lockdown… Everyone is looking for it and worried it’s going to run out. Property markets are tight and FOMO (fear of missing out)

      3 min read

    • Article

      Buying a Home Could be a Bad Career Move

      Jun 13, 2018

      Most of the time, the buy-vs.-rent debate revolves around the best financial decision. That's for good reason: As you've undoubtedly heard more than once, buying a home is the biggest purchase you'll probably ever make. Most people need to borrow hun

      4 min read

    • Article

      No Place Like Home

      May 3, 2022

      No Place Like Home
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Art Of Selling Homes

      Jul 26, 2023

      The Art Of Selling Homes
      3 min read

    • Article

      Make Your Team Work For You – Part Two

      May 2, 2019

      This article follows on from last month’s discussion about why it is crucial to ensure your solicitor or mortgage broker works for you 100% in any property investment dealings. They must understand what you are trying to achieve and what your goals a

      2 min read

    • Article

      TALKING T&CS

      Jan 28, 2021

      Hi Ingrid! Tell us a bit about yourself and your biz. Starting my legal consulting business wasn’t something I always saw myself doing. I’d been working in the court system, then in privacy practice. I then worked for an NHS trust before having my tw

      3 min read

    • Article

      Money Matters With Effie

      May 18, 2022

      Money Matters With Effie
      3 min read

    • Article

      3 Common Money Myths You Probably Believe

      Apr 3, 2018

      If you want to build your wealth, it's never been easier to learn how to do that, thanks to the Internet. Anyone with an Internet connection can find the answers to just about any question in a matter of seconds. You can teach yourself almost anythin

      4 min read

    • Article

      Is It Time To Level Up?

      Aug 30, 2023

      Is It Time To Level Up?
      2 min read

    • Article

      Unconsented Works Dilemma

      Dec 19, 2019

      I’m often asked to sell properties that have had unconsented work done. In fact, I estimate maybe one in four properties on the market right now have unconsented work of some kind, ranging from minor through to significant unconsented changes. One th

      2 min read

    • Article

      Social Housing Opportunity

      Sep 3, 2020

      Over the last few months, we’ve all witnessed the debate around the Residential Tenancies Act (RTA) changes. A lot of industry feedback went to the Government, who summarily ignored it. You now have a few months to wrap up problem tenancies before yo

      3 min read

    • Article

      A New Lease On Debt

      Oct 8, 2021

      debt is bad and should be avoided at all costs. Never go into debt. Debt is wrong. These are phrases that we have all heard before. However, what if this is incorrect. Wait, maybe not incorrect but taken out of context. What if the correct use of deb

      2 min read

    • Article

      Pretty Houses Are For Home Buyers

      Sep 2, 2021

      Eighteen months ago when we were in the early days of the Covid Era the great learned ones in our media were warning us the property world was going to end and a price crash was coming. … It turns out that wasn’t quite the case. Fast forward and here

      2 min read

    • Article

      Prepare To Take Action

      Jun 27, 2019

      It is an interesting time in the property cycle at the moment. So much so that some are saying things are going to crash and burn, while others like me think it is going to tick away pretty well sideways for the next one to two years with small ups a

      2 min read

    • Article

      First Time Homeowners

      Sep 3, 2021

      First Time Homeowners
      5 min read

    • Article

      The End Of Private Selling?

      Jun 17, 2022

      The End Of Private Selling?
      1 min read

    • Article

      So, You Want To Buy…

      Apr 24, 2020

      So, You Want To Buy…
      6 min read

    • Article

      5 Financial Boxes You Should Check Before COVID-19 Strikes

      Apr 23, 2020

      I'm not sure I've ever read, let alone written, a title so morbid. These are unprecedented times. The unfortunate reality is that, according to the CDC, the fatality rate of this virus is over 10% for those 85+, but the virus can be deadly no matte

      4 min read

    • Article

      Balancing Act

      Dec 19, 2019

      Everyone’s familiar with the stereotyped views of landlords and tenants. Landlords are lazy, money-hungry liars; tenants are shifty rent-dodgers who kick holes in walls. In reality, as our clients will tell you, most of the time both parties are sens

      2 min read

    • Article

      PODCAST: Estate-Planning Your Stuff with T. Eric Reich

      Apr 21, 2021

      David Muhlbaum: When it comes to estate planning, money is usually front of mind. Makes sense, that's where decisions about wills, trusts and more can realize real tax savings. But it's stuff, tangible things like houses, china and collectibles that

      17 min read

    • Article

      Why ‘Rent vs. Buy’ Is the Wrong Question

      Aug 11, 2020

      In the world of personal finance, there are a handful of disputes that may never get resolved. There’s the question of whether credit cards are dangerous, or whether they’re valuable tools we can all benefit from. And I don’t know about you, but I’ve

      5 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for A Conversation about Selling Your House

    4/5

    1 rating0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      A Conversation about Selling Your House - Personal Endeavors

      A Conversation about Selling Your House

      (From Consumer To Consumer)

      Published by Personal Endeavors at Smashwords

      Copyright 2015

      All rights reserved.

      This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of the author and publisher.

      Table of Contents

      Preface

      Introduction

      Chapter 1 - - Representation

      Chapter 2 - - Questions to Consider

      Chapter 3 - - FSBO or Agent

      Chapter 4 - - Serious Papers

      Chapter 5 - - It’s a People Business

      Chapter 6 - - Up to You

      Thank You

      Afterword

      About Personal Endeavors

      Other Work

      Dedication

      To Kai for all of your love, encouragement, and support.

      Preface

      Conversations

      If a stranger walked up to you and said Let me hold your wallet, what would you do? Would you give it up? Okay - probably not. All sorts of sensors would go off in your head, right? You would try to get away from the person immediately. So if that is true then why do so many of us trust strangers with our money and our stuff without so much as a hold on there from us? More importantly, why do so many folks hand over one of their greatest assets and largest life investments, a house, to a stranger without keeping that stranger in check? If things work out well, then great; if not, then oh well - such is life. It is sort of like playing a game of chance where the odds are 50/50.

      That's the nature of selling real estate, right? Relying on strangers ... Maybe the acceptance of such is all in how we are conditioned as a whole. Still, it seems some folks really take advantage of the uninformed consumer. What's one to do?

      Throughout our office conversations two things have become apparent. First, basic characteristics of information are quality and value. Secondly, the best thing any consumer can do is get armed with helpful information, which is why we decided to condense our conversations (based on research, experience, etc.) into something we feel others can use.

      Although we are college educated with bachelor and master degrees, licenses, and certificates in mixed disciplines to include communication, bookkeeping, accounting, and computer science with management, operations, and real estate employment backgrounds we are not licensed real estate professionals or attorneys. However, we are consumer researchers as well as consumers with a great desire to assist folks with the understanding that information changes and the information contained herein does not and cannot take the place of a licensed professional. Therefore, we make no warranties expressed or otherwise. We are simply sharing some of the things we’ve learned through education, experience, research, family, friends, and associates. We don't mention names of individuals or companies because doing such serves no purpose in this writing.

      By the way, there are times when we may want to highlight a point or draw closer attention to something so we use the acronym JSYK for the phrase Just so you know. Now you know.

      Introduction

      We started a company many years ago called Personal Endeavors whereby one of our missions remains to share experiences, education, skills, research and knowledge with fellow consumers. We have several other undertakings but consumer education is the mainstay of what we do. Since our beginnings in the nineteen seventies we have seen a huge increase in the need for timely consumer information. Thus, today sharing decent information is more important than ever.

      The focus of this writing is selling a house because this is where many have turned prematurely gray or pulled their hair out altogether. Also it is a hot topic in our office. It is a huge undertaking and

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1