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 realtor. Why? That six percent commission is a big chunk of money to hand over to someone to do something that you can actually do yourself. Don’t be fooled by […]
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 to do the negotiating for you. That’s just not true! An agent at this point would not only slow things down, it’s very possible he or she would not be […]
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 the house. Keep it short and sweet, but informative enough to pique buyers’ interest. Steer away from grandiose descriptions, and resist the urge to project value that you put 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. Powerful marketing tools and online technology have brought the For Sale by Owner movement out of delayed adolescence-it’s all grown up. Today, 92 percent of consumers are searching online for […]
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 time to challenge the status quo has arrived. The flood gates opened significantly over the past two years, when consumer use of online real estate searches reached an all-time high […]
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 time to get busy. In summertime, 60 percent of all homes are bought and sold, so get in on the action by taking these six essential steps now to be […]
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 past. The benefits of a FSBO home sale include a potentially great cost savings, since you will save the cost of the real estate agent’s commission—the largest expense home sellers […]
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 just getting popular with consumers looking to buy and sell homes. Now it’s standard fare in the real estate industry. Realtors® want their annual surveys to reflect that MLS is […]
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 automatic valuations, and whether you think these valuations are accurate or not, buyers and sellers love looking at them. Determining your home’s value without an agent has become easy, even […]