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| Ready, Set, Sold!: The Insider Secrets to Sell Your House Fast--for Top Dollar! | 
 enlarge | Author: Michael Corbett
Publisher: Plume
Category: Book
List Price: $15.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (9 reviews)
Sales Rank: 222511
Format: Bargain Price
Language: English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 643.12
ASIN: B0013VZJV0
Publication Date: February 27, 2007
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Product Description
Michael Corbett appears regularly on national TV and print media and travels the country lecturing to crowds of 25,000 sharing his expertise, having made millions buying and selling houses during his twenty-plus years in the business. With personal tips, cost-effective techniques, and real estate insider secrets, Ready, Set, Sold! will teach readers how to:
? Add $10,000 to the value of their home in a single weekend
? Avoid the twelve costliest and most common mistakes
? Dress and stage their home to make buyers swoon and bid over the asking price
? Pay no taxes on the sale?without breaking the law
? Complete no-cost makeovers that supercharge their selling price
? Take advantage of the home-selling secrets that only real estate agents know
? Save thousands in commissions and closing costs
With before and after photos, checklists, charts, and worksheets, Ready, Set, Sold! is the book that every home seller MUST read before putting their house up for sale!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 a "must read" for every home seller March 10, 2008
Corbett's "Ready, Set, Sold" is a must have for every potential homeseller. The book is written in clear, easy-to-understand language and is full of the tips which would easily go unnoticed by most sellers. Corbett moves through the sales process from understanding the value of your home, how the sales process should work, making the process work for you, and showing you how to dramatically increase the bottom-line results in a smooth, logical sequence. His insight and own personal experiences help to reduce the stress and uncertainty of a process long-overdue for having some light shed upon upon it. In a difficult market, it only makes sense to draw on as many resources as possible- this is an exceelent choice.
 Don't waste your money January 13, 2008
The book didn't offer any "secrets." It basically said spruce up your house and pay a realtor thousands of dollars in commission to sell your house. Watch a couple of HGTV shows and you'll pick up the same info.
Comprehensive book with great tips May 6, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Even though we recently had a Realtor walk through the house and make suggestions on minor improvements, I bought this book in case there were some things she didn't mention. The book is easy to read and nicely organized. It explains how to target your house to the buyers it will likely attract and how to how to look at your house from a buyer's perspective. It also includes a brief section on the selling process.
The book explains that a seller should make minor structural and cosmetic repairs, which any Realtor will tell you. But it has a handy checklist of all parts of the home to go through. It then delves into how to de-clutter and how to "stage" the house for selling. It also includes a checklist of things to do before anyone sees the house. As someone who has recently looked at several houses on the market to buy, I can attest there really is an emotional hook that some of this staging provides. These truly are inexpensive or free things (such as putting a bowl of fruit out, playing soothing music, etc.) that can subliminally attract a buyer. The suggestions are tailored to people with all budgets for fixing up before selling. It does not suggest major upgrades but suggests things like repairing broken bathroom tile as opposed to retiling the entire bathroom. Some of these things are no-brainers, but it was helpful reinforcement from what the Realtor said.
There is a section on how to market the home and explains estimated costs. It also explains what happens when the house is in escrow and what needs to be done in a short timeline. It explains how to keep the buyers motivated and calm while still getting what the seller needs out of the deal.
One of the best things about this book is that it repeatedly encourages the seller to put things into perspective. Yes, the idea is to sell the house as quickly as possible and make the most profit, but this book shows the pitfalls about haggling over $100 and how it can make prospective buyers walk away from a deal.
This book doesn't contain any miracle advice and some of the advice is obvious. However, it's an easy read and an inexpensive book that will probably end up helping sellers make more money at selling time. I would recommend it for anyone who wants to understand the real estate process and maximize profit without spending an inordinate amount of time or money.
 I am not sure if I trust this guy April 16, 2007
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Here is Ready Set Sold! in one sentence: Make your house look like a model home before you put it on the market. That covers chapters 6 through 12, and is heavily emphasized in all of the other chapters as well.
Of course, making your house look like a model home probably means spending thousands. I know it would for me, even for my modest place. Corbett's mantra is that the more you do to make your house a model home, the more money you'll get when you sell it. The amount that you put into fixing the place up, with painting, new furniture if necessary, and a zillion other details large and small, will more than be made up for by the eventual selling price that you can command.
Hmmm...but is this really true? I don't know. It sounds like nonsense to me. I'm in California and everyone I talk to, including realtors, tell me that just about the ONLY thing that will command a higher selling price is a room addition (impossible for my house). Everything else is just wasted money. That doesn't mean you shouldn't clean up clutter and make sure things look nice and spiffy, but spending thousands of dollars on new furniture, cabinetry, and so on is unnecessary and a waste of money that you will never recoup.
I don't think I buy into the gung-ho "It will cost more up front, but it'll all pay off in the end!" mantra that this book feeds you constantly.
Also, almost all of the 5-star reviews here were written on the same date, and say nothing more than "This book is great!" Is the author or publisher artificially trying to pump up the book's ratings? It looks very, very suspicious.
I would like to hear any comments from people (especially in CA) that have actually followed this book to the letter and ended up with verifiable results.
One-Stop Selling March 6, 2007
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is the ONLY book you'll need to sell a home sucessfully. Period. Corbett's blend of humor and personal stories make for a fun read, and he's got an enormous repertoire of ideas that will help you do exactly what the book promises: sell for the most money!
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