When you decide to sell your home you should consider your options. The traditional method of using a real estate agent is the safe route but can be expensive. The for-sale-by-owner or FSBO method can save you thousands of dollars but might be more work than you expect. Let’s look at the two methods in …
Monthly archives: July 2018
A Free Listing of Your FSBO Real Estate May Not Be Enough
Perhaps you're considering a free listing for your FSBO real estate. You feel you're ready to sell your property yourself. Whether it's the first time you've done this or it's part of your real estate investment strategy, you want to save the money you've got to pay to a real estate broker. In fact, you've …
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Benefits of Selling A House For Cash
Selling a house for cash is becoming a popular alternative for homeowners who need to sell their property quickly. With the current credit clog and sluggish real estate market, many sellers are finding it difficult to locate qualified buyers. Instead, they are turning to investors who are able and willing to ante up cash. Selling …
Tips on How to Sell Your Home Quickly!
When selling your home, it is extremely important to show your home at its potential. Here are a few simple things you can do to increase the attractiveness of your home to potential buyers while still keeping within a budget. Some of these items are do-it yourself projects and some require the help of a …
House Selling Tips to Sell Your House Without a Realtor in Any Market
I would like to give you some house selling tips because selling a house in any market can be difficult. Houses sit on the market for months and maybe years even if you have a Realtor. Most people do not know how to sell their house privately. This is understandable because because being a real …
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For Sale By Owner Signs – Why They Are a Big Mistake
Every year, thousands of homeowners opt to avoid real estate commissions by listing their homes themselves without a Realtor®. It makes a lot of sense, why pay 6% of the sales price if you don’t have to (especially in a down market like today)? There is nothing wrong with this thought process or the decision …
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Listing Your House For Sale By Owner
Houses for sale by owner are more common than ever. The "by owner" method used to be thought of as unprofessional but that's no longer the case. There's plenty of advice available in Internet FSBO (For Sale By Owner) discussion groups where "houses for sale by owner" buyers and sellers congregate to talk about their …
FSBO: Not For Everyone!
Selling your home yourself, commonly called for Sale By Owner or FSBO, is a method employed by a growing number of homeowners chiefly to offset high real estate contracts. With real estate contracts as high as 6%, property that is valued at more than $ 300,000 can easily mean a real estate commission of $ …
Selling Your Home: Top 5 Reasons FSBO's Do not Sell
As a home inspector, I get to see many mistakes by people selling their home without a real estate agent, commonly referred to as FSBO's or For Sale By Owner. If you do your homework and research and have some financial sense, you can probably sell your own home. However, I see many people who …
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Not Using a Realtor – Why It's Not a Good Idea to Shop For a New Home Without a Realtor
Are You Thinking Of Buying and Not Using a Realtor to Buy a Home? Buying a house is one of the biggest decisions you'll ever make in your life. Now big is of course relative but we're talking of buying a house not a candy bar in your local grocery store. Moreover, homes nowdays cost …