By Being More Informed About the Home-Sale Process
What Every Person Needs to Know About Selling a House
This easy-to-read book covers:
What to Expect When Selling Your Home
What happens when you put your house on the market? From the marketing plan to negotiating the sale price, you will learn what to expect during the entire process.
The Top 10 Pitfalls to Avoid When Selling Your Home
From ignoring your home’s curb appeal to skipping a pre-sale inspection to rejecting low offers, inexperienced sellers can make mistakes that cost them thousands of dollars in the long run. This book covers these pitfalls and how to avoid them.
How to Evaluate the Skill of a Real Estate Agent
There is a lot at stake when you’re selling your home. Are you going to make money? Lose money? Will you need money for repairs? Choosing the best agent for the job is one of the biggest financial decisions you will make in this process.
Every agent says they can sell your home fast and for top dollar, so how do you know who has the skills and experience to get it done? This book takes you through the questions to ask prospective agents and what answers you should hear from them.
Getting Your Home Ready for Sale
There is an art and science to getting your home ready for market. You have to put yourself in the buyer’s shoes and understand their emotional responses. From managing smells to decluttering to staging your home, you’ll learn how to prepare your home for buyer walkthroughs.
Setting the Right Price for Your Home
It takes experience and deep knowledge of the market to price a home correctly. Price your home too high, and you’ll lose out to other homes in your area priced more competitively. Price it too low, and you’ll lose thousands of dollars. Chapters 12 and 13 of this free e-book cover accurate home pricing.
The Real Cost of “For Sale By Owner” Home Sales
“For Sale By Owner”(FSBO) isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. While many think FSBO will eliminate the cost of real estate agent commissions, those savings evaporate when you factor in the length of time the house stays on the market due to poor marketing and the lower sale price because it wasn’t priced properly, to begin with. Learn about the real cost of FSBO.
Preparing for Inspections
In this chapter, you’ll learn which areas of the home get inspected, how to prepare for an inspection, and how long a home inspection takes.
Negotiating a Win-Win Closing
Purchase agreement timelines, transaction deadlines, earnest money, contingencies, closing costs, and more are part of the sale of your home. This book will walk you through these issues so you can feel prepared and informed of the final stages of your home sale.
Ashley Leigh has been a RealtorⓇ in Northern Virginia for more than 20 years. He and his team are one of the most respected real estate companies in the country. Ashley was featured in Fortune Magazine for his innovative approach to real estate, and he has been in the Wall Street Journal’s list of top 100 RealtorsⓇ multiple times.
Achieve more success in your home sale by reading the book that compiles Ashley Leigh’s 20-plus years of real estate wisdom.
