Selling Your House: Nolo's Essential Guide

Make the real estate market work for you!

Whether your local real estate market is strong or sluggish, you can take effective steps to reach the right buyers, pick the best offer, and ultimately get top dollar for your home. Selling Your House: Nolo's Essential Guide will take you through the process from start to finish. And, you'll learn how to do it all in the shortest possible time.

Real estate expert and best-selling author Ilona Bray gives you the inside scoop on:

• setting a price that will attract buyers
  
• finding the right real estate agent
  
• safely opening your home to visitors
  
• determining which repairs and upgrades pay off
  
• making legally required disclosures to buyers
  
• evaluating purchase offers, and
  
• negotiating and closing escrow successfully.
  

Provides tips from industry pros--including real estate agents, attorneys, home stagers, and more--as well as stories from home sellers.

ISBN-13: 9781413330427

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: NOLO

Publication Date: 02-28-2023

Pages: 288

Product Dimensions: 6.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

Ilona Bray is an author and legal editor at Nolo, specializing in real estate, immigration law, and nonprofit fundraising. She is coauthor of Becoming a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Immigration Made Easy, Nolo's Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home and numerous other top selling books. Bray's working background includes solo practice, nonprofit, and corporate stints, as well as long periods of volunteering, including an internship at Amnesty International's main legal office in London. She received her law degree and a Masters degree in East Asian (Chinese) Studies from the Universityof Washington. Bray also blogs on Nolo's Immigration Law Blog.

Table of Contents

Introduction: What's Ahead in Selling Your Home 1. First Steps: What You Can Do NOW to Get Ready to Sell 2. Getting Expert Help: Hiring a Real Estate Agent, Lawyer, and Accountant 3. Prep Work: Pre Inspections, Repairs, and Improvements 4. Telling Buyers What You Know: Disclosure Laws 5. Spiffing Up Your House: Decluttering, Cleaning, and Staging 6. Pricing Your House to Sell"”and Sell High 7. Websites, Open Houses, and Other Marketing Tools 8. Receiving and Evaluating Offers 9. Demystifying Your House Sale Contract 10. Keeping Up Momentum, From Escrow to Closing 11. Selling Without an Agent: Smart or Scary? Index