Jackie Bondanza - The Homeowners Guide to For Sale By Owner: Everything You Need to Know to Sell Your Home Yourself and Save Thousands

The Homeowners Guide to For Sale By Owner

Everything You Need to Know to Sell Your Home Yourself and Save Thousands

with Companion CD

Revised 2nd Edition

By: Jackie Bondanza

Revised by: Jim Kim

Foreword by: John R. Thomas, Certified Mortgage Planner

The Homeowners Guide to For Sale By Owner: Everything You Need to Know to Sell Your Home Yourself and Save Thousands with Companion CD Revised 2nd Edition

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Names: Bondanza, Jackie, 1980- author.

Title: The homeowners guide to for sale by owner : everything you need to

know to sell your home yourself and save thousands / by Jackie Bondanza.

Description: 2 Edition. | Ocala : Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc., 2016. |

Revised edition of the authors The homeowners guide to for sale by

owner, 2010. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016034052 (print) | LCCN 2016043444 (ebook) | ISBN

9781620230688 (alk. paper) | ISBN 1620230682 (alk. paper) | ISBN

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selling--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

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Table of Contents

Foreword

T he rules of the real estate game have changed since the mortgage meltdown of 2007. Selling your home today is completely different than it was back then, because the market has rebounded with vigor. In many areas, home prices have returned to pre-meltdown levels. In other areas, home prices have soared to new highs. If you want to be successful at selling your home for the highest price possible, follow the advice outlined in this book. Jackie Bondanza has written an updated guide to selling your home yourself commonly called For Sale By Owner.

Times have changed. Weve moved from a buyers market to a sellers market, which is good news for you. But selling a home by owner is not without challenges, even when market trends are shifting in your favor. You need updated methods and sound advice. This book will guide you through the process from start to finish.

Start by understanding the current housing market. In chapter 1, Bondanza discusses the history of housing over the last 25 years, including the real estate crash in the Great Recession of 20082009, which laid the foundation for todays thriving market.

With the proper tools and education, you can save thousands of dollars and control the whole transaction from start to finish. This book will also guide you in knowing which professionals you can partner with for free to help you market and sell your home.

You will find case studies from industry professionals in each area of the book. These will add insight from people working in the field every day. You also receive a CD-ROM with all the needed legal forms to sell your house. The information contained on the CD-ROM could cost you hundreds of dollars and much time to get all the correct and updated forms.

As a Certified Mortgage Planner and Branch Manager for Primary Residential Mortgage, Inc. in Newark, Delaware, I found this book to be a serious step-by-step guide for how to sell your house. I work with For Sale By Owners in Delaware and Maryland to help them sell their homes quickly and for the highest price possible. It took me years to learn half of the information contained in Bondanzas book. I now recommend all of the FSBOs who contact me to get a copy of this book.