A mid-century modern home on a wooded lot
Mary Shanley Aloisio

Mary Shanley Aloisio

Selling For More

Don’t spend a dollar until you know what buyers pay for.

Free guides from a broker who has watched sellers spend $40,000 to get back $12,000 — and watched a $450,000 house sell for $710,000.

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Especially useful if you’ve owned your home for 20+ years — or you’re helping a parent sell theirs.

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Two guides. Take one or take both.

About three quarters of my clients are doing both at once. If that’s you, take both.

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Before You Sell the House

Learn what buyers notice, what they forgive, and where sellers waste money.

  • The dated-or-defective test
  • Nine things to fix, six to leave alone
  • A $13,250 kitchen, before and after
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Don’t Buy That House

What to worry about at the inspection, what not to, and how to buy a home that sells for more later.

  • Deal-breaker, manageable, or cosmetic
  • Real inspection photos, not stock
  • Sewer and foundation, in plain English
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From the seller guide

Two agents said $450,000.
It sold for $710,000.

Same room. Same beams, same brick, same floor. About $10,000 in cleaning, pest control, paint and staging — and nothing structural changed. The other two agents priced a two-bedroom ranch, because that is all they could see.

The house didn’t need a major renovation. It needed to show buyers what it was worth.

A living room packed with boxes and files
Before
The same living room cleared, painted and staged
After

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The Selling for More™ System

The complete room-by-room plan for preparing your home to sell.

The free guide shows you what matters. The System shows you exactly what to do, room by room.

$97 one time, yours to keep

One email the day it goes live. Nothing else.

  • Room-by-room walkthrough
  • The sixty-day plan
  • Repair-versus-return worksheet
  • Your home history file
  • What you actually walk away with
Mary Shanley Aloisio

Mary Shanley Aloisio

Licensed broker · Chicago & the northwest suburbs

I’ve spent years watching buyers walk through homes — and watching sellers spend money in the wrong places.

These guides aren’t theory. They’re built on what I have actually watched change how a buyer sees a house, and what it finally sold for.

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