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Create a Winning Listing and Brochure to Sell Your Home FSBO Faster and More Efficiently

A well-thought-out listing and brochure can help you sell your house faster and more efficiently than you might think. An effective listing attracts buyers to …

Tips for selling your home FSBO in 30 days

So, you’ve bought another home, or found out you’re being transferred to another city or state, and you need to sell your home fast! You …

6 Tips for Getting Top Dollar When Selling Your Home FSBO

Top dollar for your FSBO home sale.Whether or not you’ve sold a home FSBO-style before, you can make top dollar if you follow some tips …

The Crumbling of the 6% Commission

3 Options for Selling Your Home As a home seller, understanding your options is the first step in deciding whether you should sell your home yourself …

Lessons You Can Learn From Charming Charlie About Selling Your Own Home

How to Stage Your Home Like a Retail Mastermind Selling your own home is a lot like retail merchandising. You want to have what buyers …

Preparing for a Home Inspection – What You Need to Know

A home inspection can feel a little scary. Visions of Sherlock Holmes looking under your water heater with a flashlight may send you into a …

Get Sales Mileage from Your Home Improvements With a List

“Seeing is believing.” “A picture is worth a thousand words.” “I’ll know it when I see it.” These adages are not just inspirational clichés. It’s …

What Real Estate Agents Do That You Can Do Too!

Today’s real estate agent primarily acts as a middleman, relaying information between the buyer and seller. Real estate agents perform routine tasks to set up …

Safety is Key When Showing Your House: Use These Simple Tips

It’s a concern that there’s not much talk, if any, about safety when it comes time for showing your house. The reason why real estate …

3 Ways FSBO Sellers Can Establish a Home’s True Market Value

Have you made the decision to sell your home FSBO? If so, the next step is to establish your property’s market value, an essential part …

Do FSBO Sellers Benefit from Holding an Open House?

For FSBO sellers, there are two schools of thought on the value of holding an open house. Some people, including real estate agents, think they’re …

7 Tips for a Successful FSBO Selling Strategy

According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR) only 36 percent of today’s homebuyers first find the home they end up purchasing through a real …

Top 10-Plus Paint colors for Dressing Up Your Home for a FSBO sale

When selling your house for sale by owner (FSBO), if you had to pick one thing that would dramatically change the look of your home, …

Lessons in the Zen of Decluttering

How to Get Your Home Crazy Organized There’s a kind of bliss that comes from tidying up and getting rid of all the stuff in …

Final Home Inspection Tips for the FSBO Seller

How to Ensure a Breezy Walk-Through Inspection You’re nearing the final stretch of selling your home solo. It’s been an exciting and demanding journey, you’ve …

Lights, Action, SOLD!

Dull lighting – or no lighting at all – can make or spoil an impression when prospective buyers come a-calling. Areas in your home you …

7 Reasons to Take Control of Your Home Sale

Thinking about firing your real estate agent? There are seven good reasons for ditching your realtor and going solo and they are within every homeow

5 Reasons You Should For Sale by Owner (FSBO)

More and more homeowners are taking advantage of the technology-based tools available to help them list, market and sell their own homes without enlisting a …

Why Isn’t My House Selling?

The question we’re asked at ListingDoor so many times is “Why won’t my house sell?” These are mostly folks who hired real estate agent and were …

Eight Simple Rules for Negotiating Your Home’s Contract

Eight simple rules for negotiating your price Maybe you’re the kind of person who isn’t comfortable negotiating. You might even wish you had an agent …

The FSBO Home Seller’s Secret to Writing a Listing Ad That Attracts Buyers

If there is one secret for the FSBO home seller to writing a listing ad that gets attention, it’s streamline the content to focus on …

FSBO Grows Up–Through Online Technology, the For Sale By Owner (FSBO) Industry Comes of Age

Why is FSBO selling growing so fast? Sissy Lappin founder of ListingDoor.com credits technology for the meteoric rise of FSBO home sales in recent years. …

With 92 percent of Consumers Searching Online for Their Next Home, FSBO Comes of Age

For Sale By Owner (FSBO) is all grown up. Thanks to some pretty powerful technology and an ever-growing population of tech-savvy and informed consumers, the …

Prepare Your House for the Sizzling Summer Sale Season

If you’re planning to sell your house for sale by owner (FSBO)-style and hope to capitalize on the sizzling summer selling season, now is the …

What Does it Really Take to Successfully Sell Your Home FSBO?

Selling your home for sale by owner (FSBO)-style—that is, without an agent, is not only entirely possible, it’s easier today than it was in the …

How Real Estate Tech is Killing The Commission

Homeowners Now in the Driver’s Seat with Real Estate Technology Less than three years ago, user-friendly online technology advances, aggregated information, and open-source platforms were …

What’s Changed with Home Sellers’ Need to Hire a Real Estate Agent? Plenty!

Home sellers and buyers are losing faith in realtors, and the days of the real estate cartel monopoly are numbered. This outcome was hastened by …

How to Price Your Home – Is a Pricing Report Really Accurate?

How do you price your home? How accurate is a pricing report? I believe pricing is both an art and a science. In many ways, it …

Challenging the NAR’s Anti-FSBO Campaign

I Came across a great article by Economist John Wake on the Real Estate Decoded website titled, “FSBOs vs. Real Estate Agents. Do agents really …

The Ultimate Blueprint For Selling Your Home – 11 Ways to Get Your Home Sold Fast

A well-thought-out listing and brochure can help you sell your house faster and more efficiently than you might think. An effective listing attracts buyers to …

The Top 15 reasons to sell your own home FSBO-style With ListingDoor

Selling your own home FSBO-style is on upward trend as the housing market steadily grows and the internet continues to make it easier for homeowners to …

A Timeline For Getting Your Home Ready to Sell

If you’re considering selling your home, whether on your own or with an agent, a strong knowledge of what to expect- and when- will go …

Are You Smart Enough To Sell Your Own Home?

How Easy FSBO Can Be When I tell sellers that in most states a manicurist goes to school four times longer than a real estate …

4 of the Real Estate Industry’s Biggest FSBO Myths, Countered by Facts

The NAR has been called one of the largest fact fabricators in the real estate industry.

Checklist for Getting Your Home Photo-Ready

Is Your Home Photogenic? Get Your Home Photo-Ready with This Handy Checklist Kitchen Remove fridge magnets and have nothing hanging on the refrigerator (kids’ art …

Is Your Home-Selling Agent a Super Hero or Just Collecting Fees?

Is your home-selling agent a superhero? As a property owner or investor, are you prepared to hand over the job of selling your home to …

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