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  • Benefits of Owning Your Own Home
    • Forced Savings
    • The Best Investment
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    • More Space
  • Important Things To Avoid Before Buying a Home
    • Don't Move Money Around
    • The Effect Of Changing Jobs
    • No Major Purchase Of Any Kind
  • Dont Buy A Car - Or Did You Already Buy One
    • When Income Grows and You Want To Buy Stuff
    • Debt-to-Income Ratios and Car Payments
    • How a New Car Payment Reduces Your Purchase Price
  • The Business Cycle and Buying a Home
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    • Should You Try To "Time the Market"?
  • Comparable Sales and Your Offer Price
    • Determining Your Offer Price
    • Comparable Sales in the Public Record
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  • Major Factors Influencing your Offer Price
    • How Property Condition Affects Your Offer
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  • Offering to Purchase Real Estate- the Basics
    • Writing an Offer to Purchase Real Estate
    • Contingencies in a Purchase Offer
    • Earnest Money Deposit
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  • Writing an Offer - Safeguards Regarding the Property
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  • Getting Your House Ready to Sell
    • Emotion vs Reason
    • De-personalize the House
    • Removing Clutter, Though You May Not Think of it as Clutter
    • Fixing Up the House Interior
    • Fixing Up Outside the House
  • Want to Start Off With a High Sales Price?
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    • Which Realtor do you choose?
    • What Happens Behind the Scenes
    • Dropping Your Price...Too Late
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    • Are Commissions Negotiable?
    • How and When Listing Commissions are Earned
    • "Hot Market" Under-Pricing Sales Technique – Commission Issues
  • The Listing Agent and Marketing Your Home
    • The "Real" Role of a Listing Agent
    • Preliminary Marketing - The "For Sale" Sign
    • Preliminary Marketing - Flyers and a Brochure Box
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