"How to Avoid Paying $6,823...
$9,128... $12,913 or More in
Real Estate Commissions
by Selling Without an Agent!"
Rebel Real Estate Agent and Mortgage Banker reveals the
quick and easy secrets of selling your home for TOP Dollar
...and saving piles of cash by doing it yourself.
"We SOLD our house in one week!"
"We were at the end of our rope when the new year rolled around without success.
Then we purchased your ebook, 'Selling Your Home Alone,' and SOLD our home one week later... Thank you!
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- K. Johnston, Michigan
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From the Desk of Jim Edwards
Dear Home Seller,
Your chances of selling your house without an agent just got better than ever...
If you want to avoid paying outrageous commissions by selling your house yourself so you can move into a larger house... or so you can make a larger down-payment on your next house... or if you would just plain like to hang onto your equity that you've worked so hard for, rather than just handing it over to a real estate agent... this may be the most important letter you ever read!
I'm sitting here at my computer on a Sunday afternoon thinking about a time not too long ago when I was standing at a crossroads in my life... right where you probably are at this very moment. I wanted to sell my house so I could make a move I thought was vitally important to my career... but hiring a real estate agent was out of the question!
To make matters worse... I actually had TWO (2) houses I had to sell in less than 45 days in order to make a move to Florida to take a job I really wanted. On top of all that I had just gotten married two weeks before to a wonderful lady I wanted desperately to please and provide for.
Now at the time I thought I was lucky, because I had been a Mortgage Banker for about four years and thought I knew the real estate business as well as anybody... after all I had been involved in helping over 1,000 people make their most important real estate decision by that time, and hardly any of the agents I knew had any clue about business... let alone real estate. I figured if they could do it... I could do it!
So I decided that if anybody could sell these houses in 45 days I could... boy did I have it coming! The first two weeks nothing happened. I ran ads like everybody else... and got the same results as everybody else... nothing. The only people who called me were realtors trying to see if I would list my house with them... and they proceeded to get mad at me for trying to sell it on my own when they had been sending me mortgages... go figure! They were mad at me for trying to sell my house without them... even though I knew there was no way they could meet my time-frame... besides I'd never seen one really earn that high commission anyway!
Things were looking mighty bleak... I was running out of time!
Then one night something happened I'll remember for the rest of my life... and I want to stress to you that everything I am saying here is the honest-to-God truth. I have actually toned down some of the events in order to keep them completely believable!
Like I said... I was running out of time. The job in Florida was going to close soon, and I had to have a contract on both houses within 2 weeks so I'd have a shot at closing them within 30 days after that. I went to bed on a Wednesday night after asking God to help me figure out what to do... and then drifted off to sleep.
I woke up a little after 1:20 a.m. in the morning and sat straight up in bed breathing very, very fast! I had the "answer". It was so simple, yet it was so powerful... I knew I had the answer!
The next day, Thursday morning, my wife and I sat down and re-wrote the ad we had been running for the last two weeks. We actually raised the sales price of one of the houses, made some other changes to the ad, and called the paper so the ad would run in Sunday's paper.
Next we each got on the phone and made 10 to 15 phone calls to people we knew.
Next I redid the flyers based on the inspiration I'd had the night before. I drove down to the copy store and had 50 made up of each. I gave some to my wife, took the rest myself and we both went to work.
What happened next seemed almost like magic... but looking back it makes so much sense, I still want to kick myself for not thinking of it sooner!
It seemed like a miracle!
That night we got a call from one of my wife's co-workers who had seen the NEW flyer I'd made up. The one slight modification I'd made to the headline and the terms we were offering set off a chain reaction of phone calls and events I couldn't believe. That lady, along with one other called that night and made an appointment to see the house Saturday morning at 9:30 a.m.
Saturday morning rolled around and I showed the house to my wife's coworker. She looked around for 5 minutes and said "I'll take it!" She wrote me a check for her entire down payment on the spot... with ZERO price negotiations. She paid me full asking price without even so much as an argument! We filled out the simple paperwork and we were one house down... and only one house to go!
The next morning was Sunday, and I was so nervous I couldn't eat breakfast. How would the new ad do... would my flash of inspiration for the newspaper ad pan out... or fizzle like a match thrown in a bucket of cold water?
Then it happened...
The phone started ringing almost off the hook! Call after call after call! As soon as I put the handset back in the cradle, within 5 minutes the phone would start ringing again. The ad worked... IT WORKED!
That day we made appointments with 7 people to come look at the house. We had the usual tire kickers of course, but the third couple that came through the door were the ones who bought the house. They had all kinds of questions, but we were ready for them (just as you'll be ready after I'm done teaching you!) with financing information, closing information, the proper disclosures and a whole lot more.
We made an appointment with them to return the following Wednesday to write the contract after he talked to MY banker... that's right he was going to talk to my banker who was fully authorized to tell me everything I needed to know about this buyer's financial ability to buy my house! They came back that Wednesday and we signed the deal... for FULL PRICE... and I knew it would go through because I knew... beyond a shadow of a doubt... that he could get the money because he had talked to MY banker!
Mission accomplished. Both houses sold!
Both houses closed within 30 days from date of contract signing... and I got the job in Florida!
About a year later I ran into a friend who was trying to sell his condo. He was pulling his hair out, and his marriage was really suffering under the strain and stress of trying to get one of their two houses sold. They had to sell because they needed to free up cash flow for renovations to their dream home. Two mortgage payments were eating them alive and things looked hopeless!
I sat down and explained to them exactly how my wife and I had sold both of our houses, and the light bulb went off for him too! My friend change his classified ad using the technique I had used to sell our house that Sunday... and he ran his ad the next Saturday. He got 13 phone calls in two hours.... made 6 appointments and sold the house the next day... he sold his house THE NEXT DAY for FULL PRICE... without the first bit of haggling on the part of the buyer!
The astounding thing is that two (2) Realtors had had the exact same property for over a YEAR and they couldn't sell it with their multiple listings and caravans and big newspaper ads... but my friend sold it on his own (with a little advice from me) in ONE day!
It was then I decided to do two things:
Start selling real estate full time (I'd been licensed since 1992)
Write my first book "Selling Your Home Alone"!
Things started moving pretty fast from then on!
We got written up in some big newspapers and did some radio across the country too...
The New York Times calls "Selling Your Home Alone"
"... a primer for selling a home without a real estate broker."
The Richmond Times Dispatch calls us
"... a useful guide to the details of preparing and selling a house."
Do you know how hard it is to get the newspapers to say anything good about anything... let alone a product that is going to make many of their advertisers really, really mad (realtors spend a lot of money on ads)!
When realtors saw these articles they went completely nuts. "How dare you!" seemed to be the first words out of every agent's mouth... "How dare you take money out of our pockets and keep us from earning those high real estate fees!"
All these agents started flipping out over the book because they could see in a minute what a valuable tool it was and that it was going to take the easy real estate commissions right out of their pockets!
Needless to say I became very unpopular with other agents... but I DIDN'T CARE... in fact it was kind of fun to put them in their places and give away their "secrets". Incredible as it may seem, most of them don't even know, understand, or use what I'm going to teach you in this ebook... because they are too lazy to learn!
Most agents just throw your house in the MLS and hope it sells... that's it... all the promises about marketing most agents make are just a smoke screen!
The only thing they have that sells a property is putting it in the MLS... the vast majority don't do any meaningful marketing!
So now some time has passed and over the years I have helped literally thousands of people to make educated decisions about selling, buying and financing!
As a mortgage banker and real estate agent I have sold, bought, financed and represented MILLIONS and MILLIONS of dollars worth of transactions. I have seen it all, heard it all - "been there, done that" - and I have boiled it down to a simple system that - if you do what I tell you - you can sell your house - no matter what your local market conditions!
Let me say it again... This system MUST work for you... it doesn't have a choice! If you do it the way I tell you... a buyer has to appear... just like the law of gravity states that a rock dropped from your roof must fall to the ground.
It's unavoidable... it can't be screwed up!!
I'll teach you exactly what to do:
How to get FREE and Low-Cost Advertising...
- How to get exposure that doesn't cost a dime!
- How to use several different FREE Advertising methods effectively to Save Thousands in advertising fees.
How to Negotiate a Win-Win Sale with nervous buyers...
- Get an offer down on paper - quickly - so you can get to closing!
- Protect your interests and avoid confrontation!
Use Proven Marketing and Advertising techniques that really work!
- We'll teach you all the secrets the Pro's use to sell FAST!
- Don't waste money on ads that don't pull!
The absolute best way to Use the Internet to Sell Your Home...
- Announcing the Absolute Best Way to use the World Wide Web to sell your home.
"Set the stage" for KILLER Showings to buyers...
- Don't blow it after you work so hard to get buyers to show up!
Have lawyers and bankers begging to help you... at no extra charge!
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