Sell Your Home in Any Market: 50 Surprisingly Simple Strategies for Getting Top Dollar Fast

If you’re putting your home on the market, better be sure you’re ready to tell all — good and bad. “The majority of lawsuits or claims that occur are as a result of buyers finding out about something that is wrong with their property after the close of escrow and coming to the belief that the seller knew but didn’t tell them,” says real estate attorney, Peter Solecki of Winton & Larson, LLP.

Disclosure is vital. In one extreme case, it may have spared a seller from going to jail and even saved lives. The New York Times reported on a trial back in the late eighties that found the seller of a home guilty for not disclosing to the buyers that the home’s heater had malfunctioned.

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