About The Book SMART ESSENTIALS FOR SELLING YOUR HOME is concise, cuts to the chase, eliminates the fluff. At last, home sellers can learn everything they need to know that's essential to selling smart. You'll learn smart ways to: Create a ROADMAP that puts you in control of your selling timetable. Find a TEAM of professionals-especially a top-notch agent-to rely on. Turn all the MONEY details to your advantage in any market. Nail down the perfect 'Goldilocks' PRICE-not too high, not too low, just right. PREPARE your property to attract serious buyers. Avoid costly mistakes to make your home SHOW like a model. NEGOTIATE a win-win contract that pays you top dollar in the shortest time. Simply put: SMART ESSENTIALS makes you money by getting the best price for your home, saves you time with a fast sale on your moving timetable, and avoids costly mistakes even smart sellers make. About The Series If you want to get smarter for less, then SMART ESSENTIAL guides are all you need. SMART ESSENTIALS readers appreciate the smart, useful, distilled information that goes straight to the point. Certainly, you can swim through the tides of endless online articles searching for useful information. Yes, you can slog through full-length how-to books trying to glean the one chapter you really need hidden in the general filler. But SMART ESSENTIALS readers are too smart for that. You want the information now. You want it smartly presented. You want it current for today's market. Mostly you want your information short, concentrated and applicable to your situation - you want SMART ESSENTIALS. About The Editor Dan Gooder Richard is the editor of the SMART ESSENTIALS series. Dan's first book, REAL ESTATE RAINMAKER(R): Successful Strategies for Real Estate Marketing, was published by John Wiley & Sons in 2000. Dan's second book, REAL ESTATE RAINMAKER(R): Guide to Online Marketing, was published by John Wiley & Sons in 2004. As a publisher, author, speaker and one of the real estate industry's leading authorities in marketing and lead management since 1979, Dan is also creator of the RAINMAKER LEAD SYSTEM(R) now in use by thousands of real estate professionals nationwide.