Review of A Survival Guide to Selling a Home (Paperback)

Here's what the book contains:
Chapter 1 - Selling FSBO or Using An Agent
Chapter 2 - Prep Your Home To Sell For More
Chapter 3: Marketing your home
Chapter 4: Handling offers - the art of the deal
Chapter 5: Selling a condo, co-op or townhouse
Chapter 6 - Financing and money matters for sellers
Chapter 7 - If your home doesn't Sell and other options
Chapter 8 - Renting and keeping your home as an investment
Chapter 9 - Buying your next home
Chapter 10 - Decluttering, moving and yard sales
Appendix A - Why home values increase
Appendix B-Features that affect marketing time and selling price
Appendix C-- Marketing do's and don't's
Appendix D-- Dos and don'ts when you get an offer
Appendix E-- What your ads need to attract quality buyers
Appendix F-The Most Costly Mistakes Sellers Make
Index
I wish I'd had this last year to help with selling my house.This has lots of info to guide you through a trying experience.It's what you need to know to get the best deal possible.



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Review of The Home Buyer's Question and Answer Book (Paperback)

There are shelves of reference books available for home buyers, but I found this one to be of great help in explaining the step-by-step process of home buying.

Not only does the book guide you through the daunting task, but it explains terminology in fairly good depth that buyers are likely to run into while trying to buy a home. Words, phrases and acronyms such as contingencies, earnest money, clear title, ASHI and purchase agreement have become part of our vocabulary, thanks in part to this book.

I also appreciated the worksheets (some courtesy of Ginnie Mae) that help to prepare a potential buyer when viewing homes. The sheets encourage home buyers to look closely, take notes and prioritize needs. This is critical when you look at four or five houses in a single day and details can easily be blurred without an organized effort to keep the information for each house separate.

Though I don't think any one book can answer every home buyer's questions, this book was a great starting point for us as we sought to demystify the issues surrounding home buying. Highly recommended.



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Review of Your Guide to VA Loans: How to Cut Through The Red Tape and Get Your Dream Home Fast (Paperback)

Three years ago, when we first started shopping for a house in New Jersey, I couldn't find any reliable information on VA loans anywhere. This year, we resumed our search and I was delighted to come across David Reed's excellent Guide to VA Loans earlier this week as it clearly and concisely explains every step of the process of finding, qualifying for and closing a VA loan.The sample certification and loan applications, and helpful glossary of terminology are an added bonus, and I am much more confident about picking the right lender than I was before I bought this book.The VA should make sure every veteran picks up a copy!



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Review of Sell Your Home in Any Market: 50 Surprisingly Simple Strategies for Getting Top Dollar Fast (Paperback)

A MUST READ FOR ANYONE LOOKING TO SELL THEIR HOME - WHETHER THRU A REAL ESTATE AGENT OR ON THEIR OWN. PACKED WITH INFORMATION / TIPS / WEBSITES TO VISIT. AN EASY READ - HIGHLY RECCOMMEND !!

Product Description
In this cooling market, homes are becoming harder to sell. But with the right strategies, sellers can greatly increase their odds of success. Sell Your Home in Any Market gives readers the tools, techniques, and strategies used by the best real estate marketing experts in the nation to ensure their home is positioned to sell. Readers will find out how to:

* review the local market * set the right price * promote their home like a pro * prepare for a showing * anticipate questions * sell the neighborhood * use incentives to encourage a quick sale * gently push a buyer * evaluate offers

The book reveals 10 ways to stage a home, 5 ways to maximize showings with MLS marketing, 25 items inspectors check, 200 ways to improve curb appeal, exactly how to emphasize a home's benefits to potential buyers, and much more.

Packed with priceless tips and techniques, this is a book no one selling a home should be without.



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Review of A Survival Guide for Buying a Home (Paperback)

When my wife and I decided a few months ago that we were going to buy our first home, I went to our library and took out two books on home buying.One of them was your "Survival Guide". I toted that book around for the past two months and finally turned it back in today after we closed on our house.

My wife and I are the type who want to know as much as we can about everything that we are involved in, and your book really helped us to navigate the very involved and complex road to home-buying. We left the closing this morning feeling like we had done everything right, from shopping mortgages to negotiating after the home inspection. I believe that your book has helped us to save thousands of dollars!

Thank you for writing such a fine resource!




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Review of Your Successful Real Estate Career (Paperback)

First and foremost I think one of the best parts of this book is the survey at the back which outlines "why most new agents fail" is fantastic.It addresses the key characteristics and traits that are required to be a successful new agent.

At the beginning I was sort of put off by Mr. Edwards "this is why you would fail" attitude but as I got through more of the specifics in the individual chapters I realized that he was setting up a dialog of what to do as well as what not to do.There are TONS of realistic, specific ideas about how to get yourself off to a great start during what can very easily be a very difficult first year in real estate sales.

Since I purchased the book I have taken my licensing class, taken my salesperson's exam and found a firm to work with.I think this book and one other are why I made my way through that process so smoothly.The other book I'd highly recommend is Dirk Zeller's "Your First Year in Real Estate".



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