How to Sell Your Home in Five Days

By William Effros

Say good-bye to real estate business-as-usual. Now you can get the best price for your home -- in good times and bad in only five days, and without paying a broker's fee. Based on the one basic truth of free enterprise -- your home is worth exactly what the highest bidder will pay for it -- this encouraging, step-by-step, risk-free plan shows how to take charge of your real estate future.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563055511
• ISBN13: 9781563055515
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Workman Publishing Co Inc
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

It Works! Sold home for $225,000.

I bought the book three weeks ago and decided only about 10 days ago to sell my house this way. Although the book was first published in 1993 and updated only in 1998, it still works. I simply followed his advice in this book to the letter. I placed my ad in the city and local papers for Wed-Sun (modeled on his examples in the book), and put up signs on Sat morning (I didn't use his sign models, tho; I used the ones from the associated website). I got 26 calls by Friday night (he says you need a minimum of 25 or you should stop the sale). I had 55 groups of people come to my open houses (he says to have them on Sat and Sun 10-5), and I had 24 bidders on my bid sheet by Sunday night. I did 5 rounds of calling Sunday night from 8-9:35 p.m. and sold my house to the highest bidder! I got slightly more than what I would have gotten had I sold the house for its appraised value minus a 6% broker's commission. So, I didn't make MORE money, necessarily, but it was great not having to have my house in perfect order for months, worrying about whether it will sell at the listed price, etc. Also, I had to move out of state within 6 weeks, so I wanted a FAST sale. I got it, at a fair price. It definitely worked for me, notwithstanding that the sale was the weekend before Thanksgiving, not in the best of times to be selling a house. Worth giving a try, I say.

I Tried it and It Worked!

We sold our house in New Jersey. Our friends recommended the book to us and although thier experience was different, the results were the same. Our house sold for market value. Its true that the buyers were a bit confused, but after explaining how it worked, people were excited to place a bid. Selling our house in 5 days was so important for us. We have three young children and keeping the house in shape for sporatic showings would have been impossible. It really is no risk with the exception of the money you lay out for ads and signs. Our buyer came from the signs, but bought due to the method. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in saving money.

Original, unique, interesting and profitable

We bought and read the Effros book, it is unique. I have read probably 200 real estate books and his 5 day method is different and effective. You have to get over the mental block of starting off low in your asking price. We modified the technique to serve our purposes. We employed a MAI (Member of Appraisal Institute) appraisal done on the property. After physically preparing the house by painting, cleaning, and some new flooring, ads were placed in the newspaper. We received offers above asking price and settled within 30 days. Everybody was happy. We have William Effros to thank for the unique idea, and ispiration of his book for our quick sale above asking price. Thank you, sir.

Worked great for me! Highly recommended!

I used the first edition of this book to sell my parents' home in less than a week for the same money that their neighbors received for an identical house. It took the neighbors a year and lots of time and money "fixing things up." They used two different brokers (each of whom lost interest when the house didn't 'move' quickly) and suffered a bunch of anxiety (due to illnesses, moving, etc.)We spent five days in the active sales phase, had 200 people through to see our house in a weekend and had hot competitive bidding right down to the wire.The book was well written and easy to use. Although the prospect of selling the house ourselves was a bit scary, the inexorable logic of the market place worked just as Bill described.Highly recommended!

I Sold My House in Five Days

It isn't every day that a book can save your hide, or change your life, but William G. Effros' "How to Sell Your Home in Five Days" did both for me. My wife and I owned a home in Maine. We needed to move to Massachusetts for work and were unemployed. Our house had been on the market for NINE MONTHS with brokers and no real offers. After reading the book, we followed the directions to the letter, and did what our lawyer said was impossible: Sold our house, and at a fair-market price. After the sale the lawyer could not believe how well the it had worked, and the price we got for our house. He graciously admitted that he had been wrong, and said that he had never seen anything like it. We must be geniuses. I told him to read the book. IT WORKS!!! If anyone has any question about how to do it you can call me (Tim Hunter) at (413) 528-7904 or freesongs@aol.co