A Conversation about Selling Your House
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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.
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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
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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