The Complete Idiot's Guide to Staging Your Home to Sell

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Staging Your Home to Sell
Author: Julie Dana
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781592576111

This step-by-step guide offers the tactics used by home stagers--from de-cluttering and cleaning up to arranging and remodeling--that will often yield a quicker sale and higher selling price.


The Complete Idiot's Guide to Staging Your Home to Sell

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Staging Your Home to Sell
Author: Julie Dana
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2007-02-06
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 1429508574

It's show time! Home staging transforms rooms from that everyday lived-in look to ready-to-be sold for top dollar. This step-by-step guide offers the tactics used by home stagers - from de-cluttering and cleaning up to arranging and remodeling - that will often yield a quicker sale and higher selling price. --Decorating tips to make a house appeal to the widest range of buyers --Cost-effective techniques to highlight the home's selling points, whether it's the floor plan, the high ceilings, or a newly renovated bathroom --Suggestions on how to downplay or eliminate features that might be considered negatives. such as smaller rooms, minimal storage space, or ghastly wall colors


The Complete Idiot's Guide to Selling Your Home

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Selling Your Home
Author: Katie Severance
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2010-01-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1101159847

In good times and bad, the home-seller's bible . . . In today's uncertain real estate market, sellers are deeply concerned with getting the most value for their homes. Now more than ever, readers need books that will help them find the most effective ways to make their homes attractive to buyers, save money, and make the sales process easier. This unique guide will teach readers everything real estate agents and brokers know—and more! • Reflects changes in the real estate market in the past several years—and explains how to deal with the market no matter when the reader is looking to sell


The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buying and Selling a Home

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buying and Selling a Home
Author: Shelley O'Hara
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 596
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1592574580

Whether they re buying their first time, moving up to something new, downsizing, or buying for an investment, people interested in real estate are proving themselves to be very savvy. They are interested in books that will help them in their research, save them money, make the process easier, and help them feel they re getting the best deal they can. In short, they want to know what real estate agents and brokers know! While other books cater to the first-time home buyer or only tout the benefits of letting an agent do all the work, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buying and Selling a Home, Fifth Edition, gives a more complete approach that's already popular with readers today. With terrific word of mouth and great reviews, this top-selling guide focuses on a total approach to buying a new home.


The Complete Idiot's Guide to Amateur Theatricals

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Amateur Theatricals
Author: John Kenrick
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2006-09-05
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1440650489

The one and only book on successfully staging amateur productions. In this book, drama teachers and community directors are given everything they need to know about picking the right show; licensing, casting, and budgeting; organizing a schedule; costumes, makeup, staging, lighting, and music; tickets, fundraising, programs, cast parties, and more. Illustrated with help plans and photos from actual productions. • Perfect for nonprofit organizations’ fundraising theater events and community theater groups • Complete with an extensive resource section • Illustrated with help plans and great photos from actual productions


Flipping Houses For Dummies

Flipping Houses For Dummies
Author: Ralph R. Roberts
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2011-03-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118051343

This guide provides an overview of the many components of the popular practice of flipping properties. Coverage spans the flipping process from start to finish—finding, buying, fixing up, and selling—and the variables needed to make all of those steps successful and profitable. Also included is coverage on negotiating, property inspections, mortgages, taxes, and working with contractors, brokers, and real estate agents. The book is perfect for responsible investors who want to flip houses the right way and steer clear of legal gray areas that get some investors into trouble.


The Complete Idiot's Guide to Shakespeare's Plays

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Shakespeare's Plays
Author: Cynthia Greenwood
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2008
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781592577088

Here art thou real Shakespeare. The resurgence of interest in Shakespeare's plays - largely due to recent film adaptations - has reminded the world that Shakespearean theatre is a social art form. This guide focuses on the essence of the spoken word of his plays rather than simply dissecting them. It also explores the cultural and historical contexts for the major plays, offering the director's and actor's perspective in addition to that of the scholar and close reader. Each major play is explored in depth, explaining Shakespearean terms Offers commentary on the experience of each play on and off stage with attention to language and verse Appendixes include Shakespeare's likely collaborations, a glossary, suggested further reading, and resources for viewing live performances and video/audio recordings Perfect for students, general readers, theatregoers, and actors Published to commemorate Shakespeare's 443rd birthday


The Complete Idiot's Guide to European History, 2nd Edition

The Complete Idiot's Guide to European History, 2nd Edition
Author: Nathan Barber
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 602
Release: 2011-10-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1101558563

• Fascinating, fact-filled writing that delivers hundreds of years in the life of the European continent • Terrific supplementary reading for AP History students


The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting a Web-Based Business

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting a Web-Based Business
Author: Steve Slaunwhite
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2009-09-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0241883679

The web-based basics! Aspiring web entrepreneurs will find here everything they need to know about starting and running their own small-scale online business. Whether they intend to sell goods, services, subscriptions, or advertising, this book provides them with the specific nuts and bolts of planning, designing, building, hosting, marketing, and operating their online businesses. ?The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Starting Your Own Business has over a quarter million copies sold in five editions ?1.6 million web-based businesses in the U.S., a $175 billion market in 2007 ?Online businesses benefiting from increasing number of Internet users, with increased traffic for subscription, advertising, and affiliate program revenue