CHAPTER 12 How to Write A Contract and Sell Your House Without An Agent WRITING A CONTRACT Selling a property without the help of an agent requires you to write out a contract on your own. This type of contract is usually termed as an FSBO (For Sale by Owner) contract. Preparing the contract isn’t too difficult a task once you have mastered the basic procedures and done your research. To make things simpler for you, I’ve described the procedure in a step-by-step manner here. STAGE 1: PROVIDING BASIC INFORMATION Write down the names of the parties — Name the parties involved in the contract. This will include the full legal names of the seller and the buyer, as well. For clarity, using the full name of the seller and buyer in the first paragraph of the contract is good practice. However, once the name has been mentioned, the parties can simply be referred to as the “seller” and “buyer” throughout the rest of the
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