Our main Home Selling Tutorial begins here: Answers to "How do I sell my house?" begin with Selling Step #1 and continue to Selling Step #6.

For Sale By Owner selling Step #1: Prepare your home before putting up a "for sale" sign.

Attract buyers and sell your home fast with low cost cosmetic steps. Cut the grass, clean up the outside and paint drab walls.

Have a garage sale to get rid of house clutter. Why? Because people buy homes that appear spacious, clean and well maintained. More on tasks to prepare your own home for selling..

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"Who is Audrie  ...and why is she offering free home selling tips?"

Hi !

    Call me Audrie.  While a real estate agent in the Atlanta area I met homeowners driven to market their own homes to avoid real estate commissions. At the request of friends, I hosted a seminar for these owners and invited appraisers, attorneys, mortgage brokers and other real estate professionals to come and give advice.

    To my surprise, the seminar was packed, and lots of fun. Real estate professionals opened up on how to get top-dollar, and without large commission payments.

    As we expected most questions were a version of "How do I sell my home myself?" Several versions of "How do I set a selling price for my home?" and "How do I estimate home value?" were also frequent.

    Our six step home selling tutorial was created from that first seminar, and it has grown and expanded over the years. I'm sure you will find it useful.  If you do, pass the word. Tell a friend about Audrie.com! 

    Our original intent was to create an absolutely free web site that led the home seller through the steps to selling their own home. That is still our objective but by popular demand we developed our $14.20 package of State real estate forms and contracts to buy or sell a home, and our Photo Tour which puts pictures of your home on the Internet and provides advertising flyers for local distribution. The Photo Tour is free to purchasers of our forms and contracts

    Selling land or a home on your own can be easy if you have a few free hours each week, but you can't just put up a "Home For Sale" sign in your front yard and expect to to sell quickly and at a fair price.

   Our free Photo Tour and other home selling plans make home selling quick and affordable. Use our home sellers checklist as an effective tool to sell a house or vacant land.

   Buyers can virtually tour homes for sale by owner at their convenience via our internet photo tours.  Our list of homes for sale by owner can be searched quickly by zip code.  We offer internet advertising for property in all fifty states.

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Clutter and dark colors turn off most home buyers. That means painting dark walls and getting rid of everything you can live without.

If you can't see the baseboard, the room is probably cluttered.

Have a garage sale to eliminate unnecessary items.  Use the money you earn to put some of your bulkier possessions in storage.

Bright lights and white walls make a home look bigger.

• If you plan to paint, use white or off-white.
• Replace lights with higher wattage bulbs.

Clear kitchen countertops as much as possible. Reduce number of items in cabinets.

Clean and organize your basement, attic and garage. If you really want to sell the house get rid of everything not of immediate use. If not of high value THROW IT OUT.

Wash windows and mirrors.

Clean the oven and all appliances. Clean all grease spatters and polish chrome fixtures and surfaces.

Clean window treatments and carpets. Replace worn, stained and odorous carpeting.

Clean smudges, especially around doorknobs and light switches.

Arrange clothing neatly in each closet. Reduce number of items stored on shelves and make sure NOTHING other than shoes are on the floor.

Okay, maybe nobody is this neat, but this is the target.