This newly revised edition of Buy, Rent, and Sell features everything you need to know to make money in residential real estate. Robert Irwin covers the investment tools of today's market, including buy-and-hold strategies and tax-smart long-term financing.

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Listing your home ""for sale by owner,"" or FSBO, can save an average of $10,000 in real estate commissions. That's why everyone's doing it. In 2005, over 2.25 million sold their home ""by owner."" Online FSBO options also are accelerating: In 2003, an astonishing 840,000 FSBOs used online listing services. And that rate is accelerating.

For years, the For Sale By Owner Kit has been a must-have resource, filled with essential checklists, sales forms, and sample ads designed to simplify the entire home selling process. Now fully updated, this sixth edition includes tips on:

* ""Staging"" a home to maximize its appeal.

* Pricing a home for quick sale.

* Managing all the necessary, but complicated, paperwork.

* Writing an air-tight, carefully worded sales agreement.

* Hiring fee-for-service agents.

Several entirely new chapters discuss handling disclosures and inspections fairly and honestly; getting full-service agents to work with you; and, most important, a detailed discussion on online home listings....

For the better part of the past decade, homes in many markets moved quickly and often at the asking price, some even starting bidding wars. In that seller’s market, with interest rates low and property values rapidly appreciating, owners needed only to put their home on the market for a buyer to grab it.

 

Most experts agree that those days are now gone. To sell a home quickly in today’s changing real estate climate, with sales and prices slowing in many areas, sellers need new techniques and approaches to get buyers’ attention—as well as their asking price—so that their property does not sit unsold.

 

In Fix It, Stage It, Sell It—QUICK! “America’s #1 Real Estate Expert” Robert Irwin provides the complete information sellers need to ensure any property has a successful, swift sale, stripping it down to the most essential, cost-effective work that should be done. This focused guide explains not only staging, but also fixing up and selling, making this a complete approach to what every home seller needs to move a property fast in any market....

The classic guide to getting the best deal when buying a home--from America’s #1 real estate expert

Featuring fully revised facts and figures that reflect the most recent changes in the real estate market, Tips & Traps When Buying a Home, Fourth Edition is helpful whether you're a first-time or experienced home buyer. It gives you practical, step-by-step information on a broad range of proven home buying strategies, along with indispensable advice and guidance on buying in an "up" market, flipping, buying with options, bidding wars, and other important facets of real estate deals.

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An updated edition of Robert Irwin's popular, practical guide to the basics of investing

How to Get Started in Real Estate Investing presents a step-by-step system that walks you through your first purchase and helps you build on that success. Updated to reflect today's market realities, this second edition is the reliable, hands-on guide every first-time investor needs.

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