This book is a checklist of the ways people actually lower the value of their homes, probably without realizing it. Compare the list to your own home to see if you, too, are Killing Value.
Don't leave thousands of dollars on the table. Find out how to cure those basic things that are killing value in your home in order to get the most for your home and to decrease market time.
Real Estate Agents should give this book to every client. It would save a lot of time and energy explaining the basics to sellers. Every aspect of getting a home ready to show, from the front yard to the back, and in between, is covered.
Buyers can use this book as a guide to help them sort out the real concerns from those that are cheap and easy fixes. Refinancing? Find out what lowers your home's value in the eyes of an appraiser and how you can raise that value.
Joanna Clarke Condé is a Certified Residential Real Estate Appraiser in Arizona. She has had her own company, Condé Appraisal Associates, since 1988. Her clients include large mortgage and financing companies, trusts, estates, attorneys, banks and private individuals. Her appraisal practice has given her valuable insight into what people do or don't do that causes them to diminish the value of their homes. She is considered an expert witness on residential property by the legal profession and she is a frequent speaker at real estate offices and local real estate board meetings. Over the years she and her husband have purchased, rehabbed and sold numerous homes. She has taken her experience and knowledge and presented it in an easy to follow format that can help you make the most of your home's potential.