Finance: Ten Tips For Selling Your Home

Ten Tips For Selling Your Home

Written by Steve Gillman

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6. Listen to comments of prospects. They will be more objective than you. If you hear several times that repparttar kitchen is dark, get out repparttar 143221 white paint.

7. Find out what repparttar 143222 average sales time is in your area. If your house is taking longer than average to sell, there is a problem. Usually it's price.

8. Be sure to ask your real estate agent what they plan to do - before you sign a listing agreement. Write down what he says, and hold him to his promises.

9. If there are any known problems, such as an old roof, get an estimate for repairs. The sellers may want a $7,000 allowance for a new roof - until you show them your $4,000 estimate.

10. Do any improvements that can realisically get you at least a two-to-one return on investment. If $300 to seal repparttar 143223 driveway is likely to add $600 to repparttar 143224 sales price of repparttar 143225 home, do it. Consider first those things that are most visible.

There are dozens of things you can do to sell your house faster, and get a better price. If you don't have time to do them all, start with repparttar 143226 ones that will get repparttar 143227 most "bang for your buck."

Steve Gillman has invested real estate for years. To learn more, and to see a photo of a beautiful house he and his wife bought for $17,500, visit http://www.HousesUnderFiftyThousand.com

New Bankruptcy Law – Targeting the Wrong People?

Written by Charles Essmeier

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number of business bankruptcies may actually be up to ten times higher than previously reported. Many small businesses that fail and file for bankruptcy do so under guidelines that technically classify them as personal bankruptcies. The new law doesn’t account for this, however, and treats such bankruptcy filers no differently than those who file because they can’t stop shopping. It benefits no one to force a small store owner to undergo mandatory credit counseling when their business may have failed due to other reasons, such as having a big-box retailer more in next door. Even if that is repparttar 143190

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credit-counseling agency and denies valuable counseling resources to those people who may really need it.

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meantime, small business owners and those with personal debt problems will be inconvenienced, credit counseling agencies will be overworked, and no one will be any better off for it.

©Copyright 2005 by Retro Marketing. Charles Essmeier is the owner of Retro Marketing, a firm devoted to informational Websites, including End-Your-Debt.com, a site devoted to debt consolidation and credit counseling, and HomeEquityHelp.com, a site devoted to information regarding home equity loans.

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