I am trying to sell my house and decided to check out Bill's book from my library before signing with a full service realtor. I made sure I had the most recent edition, read through it thoroughly, went to his web site, and read over the recent forum entries. Even though I saw nothing from the Chicago area and nothing of any real positive success stories, I thought I'd give it a try. I followed the book exactly, spent over 650.00 for advertising (newspaper and internet) and had lousy results. It was a waste of money to follow the book for the advertising advice, but if you look at the forum, people are using different methods, such as signs and flyers. Still, I have read of no great results and it seems that Bill's book is out of touch with what is going on in today's market. His book sounds promising, but, in reality, it doesn't work in the current real estate market.

I bought this book last year and I have used it to sell all the homes I buy. I was skeptical at first, but after trying it and seeing how successful it was I recommend it to everyone I know in real estate today. If you really need to sell your house quickly, then you really need to read this book.

It was my pleasure recently to buy and read this book How to Sell Your Home in 5 Days: Third Edition. It is a quick read and easily understood even if you aren't a real estate professional.

As a successful, professional real estate investor for many years, I buy and sell homes and other properties. Sometimes I sell them directly and other times I use a real estate agent. I have also spent tens of thousdands of dollars attending real estate investment seminars. The most effective ones actually taught Mr. Effros' process, with minor variations, as their own proprietary approach to selling homes.

Recently, I was asked by several people whose property didn't qualify for my investing program what they could do, since I was not able to buy their home. Before reading this book I would have had to shrug and wish them luck. Now, I almost invariably recommend that they buy this book, read it and implement it. Not every one of them will sell their home. Some will, and all of them will realize what is the actual, current market value of their home. In many cases, I know that will bring them back to me for a more realistic discussion of their situation.

After getting to the source of this selling approach, I can guarantee that from now on I will be using a variation of this method almost exclusively to sell all my properties.

My husband and I decided to try to sell our house based on the 5-day method. We live in Cambridge, MA. It is Spring 2009, the market has cooled but it is still not too bad. Well, we followed the book cover to cover - with an awful result at the end. We advertised in the paper with 0 responses, on craigslist with ~10 responses (craigslist is flooded with real estate ads and frankly, most buyers in MA use agents b/c they have no time to browse craigslist) and we ran around the whole Boston putting fliers up (20 responses).

We had over 70 people visit and 49 people bidding. However, they were all bottom feeders hoping to finally own a home (they could not afford it before). So our bidding ended at a way below the market price - we know b/c we were able to sell it 20% higher later through a regular sale! What a waste of time and energy! I wish I can have my money back for the book - btw, if you check out the forum that the book's author started online - pretty much everyone is failing to sell. I advise not to bother with this - it is a scam - and the author just keeps repeating himself like a broken record now and says to everyone who fails - "I guess you do not want to hear what the market price is for your home".