Selling Your House in a Tough Market - Book Review
If you are trying to selling your house in a tough market then this book written by Iiona Bray and Alayna Schroeder will provide you with helpful tips that will make your task easier to achieve.
The book offers 10 great strategies to aid sellers in how to get the best prices when selling their homes. From the cover alone, it appears this will be a great resource for home owners and also those involved in real estate investing.
The table of contents is arranged nicely so that it is easy to find all information available in the book. The book consists of 10 complete chapters of tips to make selling a home more obtainable and can also help educate sellers on which home improvements will help increase the value of their homes. There are also great sub chapters that go more in depth of how to better your chances for a sale.
The first 3 chapters of the book ‘Selling Your House in a Tough Market’ focus mainly on what you can do to get a fair price on your home and to improve it so that you may be able to increase your profit. This includes learning what the going rates are for homes that are similar to yours in order to know how to price them reasonably.
These chapters also include tips to whether you would profit more by fixing up you home or selling it “as is.” There is also information about how to hire a professional inspector to inspect your home before selling it. This section of the book gives several tips on improving the landscaping around your home that may also help you get a faster sale.
Chapters 4, 5, & 6 have lots of important facts to remember concerning the financial end of selling your home. These include the pros & cons of hiring a real estate agent, selling it yourself and saving on agent fees, and even offering buyer incentives that may encourage a sale more easily. These chapters are quite possibly the most important sections of this book! This portion provides a seller with all the pertinent information that can make or break a sale.
The main point of chapters 7, 8, & 9 of the book ‘Selling Your House in a Tough Market’ focus on how to market your home in order to get the word out. This section gives various options you may use to let others know you have a home for sale. This includes marketing online, placing ads in the newspaper, as well as, word of mouth. It also advises that you may need to lower your price if you aren’t able to sell within the expected time frame.
In fact, according to the information found in chapter 9, you may find it more profitable to keep your home and rent it out instead of selling it. This chapter also gives you everything you need to know about how to be a successful renter.
The final chapter is focused on negotiating and acquiring the perfect sale. It gives you everything to expect from reading the buyer’s offer, to signing the contract and closing the sale.
Overall, ‘Selling Your House in a Tough Market’ is packed full of tips and ideas of how to sell your home at the price you want even in tight economical times. In my opinion, it is a very good read for anyone considering placing a home or an investment property on the market.
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