A Field Guide for Home Sellers

Sell your home. Keep the check that used to go to an agent.

Written by a general contractor and licensed broker with 36+ years in remodeling and real estate — a step-by-step plan for selling your own home without splitting the biggest check of the year with a listing agent.

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No agent required. No credit card. Just the plan.

Sample Closing — Ledger
Sale price$420,000
Traditional agent commission (6%)−$25,200
Keep the Commission consulting fee−$1,500
What you keep+$23,700
Why This Book Exists

Most homeowners don't need an agent. They need a plan.

The paperwork isn't the hard part

Disclosures, contracts, and repair negotiations feel intimidating because no one ever walks you through them line by line. This book does.

Repairs are where deals actually die

After 36 years remodeling homes and holding a General Contractor's license, the author built this plan around the part most sellers get wrong: what to fix, what to disclose, and what to leave alone.

A proven process, not a hunch

The same plan used with real clients — including one currently buying and selling from as far away as Moldova — condensed into a book you can follow at your own kitchen table.

Reader Bonuses

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Drop your name and email and we'll send over the calculators, disclosure checklists, and negotiation scripts referenced throughout Keep the Commission — the same tools used with real clients.

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About the Author

36 years of remodeling. Decades of closings. One proven plan.

The author has been remodeling homes since 1988 and joined a large mid-Atlantic real estate brokerage in 1998 before starting an independent brokerage. A General Contractor's license, earned in 2015, closed the gap between what a home needs to sell and what a homeowner is told it needs — and became the backbone of the plan in this book. Today, that same plan is used to consult homeowners and investors directly, without requiring a traditional listing agreement.

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