: About Me

Teri B. Clark (that's me!)is the author of 301 Simple Things You Can Do To Sell Your Home NOW and For More Money Than You Thought, Private Mortgage Investing How to Earn 12% or More on Your Savings, Investments, IRA Accounts, and Personal Equity A Complete Guide with 100's of Hints, Tips and Secrets From the Experts Who Do It Every Day, and numerous articles on the web.

301 Simple Things is an excellent book about staging that explains everything from decluttering to painting to fixing the seal on the toilet. If you are a realtor, this book is a MUST for your clients. If you are a stager, this book will help your clients see the need for your services and give them the know how to do those things that you don't want to do - like clean their home or trim their bushes!

Private Mortgage Investing earned runner up in the finance category of Foreward Magazine's Book of the Year Award. Private mortgages have grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry. This market allows investors to earn substantially higher yieldswhile offering the security of real property to back the loan. Private mortgages have become an important fixed income vehicle for many investors with their personal funds, equity, and self-directed IRA accounts. This book will help you explore the world of private mortgage investing.

What can I do for you? I can gather the information, organize it to fit its purpose, and customize the writing to meet your individual needs at any stage in the writing process. The writing that you just haven't had time to do can now finally become an accomplished goal.

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EDITING: Writing a publishable book or presenting a key business proposal requires an ability to envision the entire text and give it a sensible, readable structure. This expertise is available to review the structure of publications, rewrite awkward sentences, and correct grammatical errors and spelling mistakes that are often missed by software.

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My passion is ...

I love learning about a wide variety of topics and then writing on them!

I know too much about ...

You can never know too much about anything! However, I'd say I know a lot about real estate and real estate investing.

My parents always told me ...

If you can't say something nice, then don't say anything at all.

My childhood ambition ...

I wanted to be a children's author. I've gotten it half right!

My favorite memory ...

Going to the beach for the first time and experiencing the sound and smell of the ocean.

Why I write ...

I write because I love to share my thoughts, feelings, ideas, and knowledge.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I am reading a series called The Work and The Glory.

My first job ...

I worked in the accounting section of a small airport.

My best moment ...

I don't have one, but four best moments: the day each of my children were born.

My inspiration ...

I want to write a book for a well-known publisher.

Home & Garden > Buying & Selling Homes Simple tips for preparing your house for sale

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"Home staging" was coined by Barb Schwarz back in the early '70s, and the concept has become well known as "house fluffing," "dressing to sell," and "home presentation" to name a few, but the concept has not taken hold among home owners when selling a home because many people do not understand the idea or cannot create a workable plan for staging their home correctly. The focus of staging is to make a home more marketable by creating the most appealing home to the greatest number of prospective buyers. It should be impersonal enough not to infringe on a buyer's own sense of style. Since ho...

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