 Posted 12/22/2006 9:15:56 AM
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| Selling on your own can be easy in some areas and difficult in others. The key for us was using a service we found through Owners.com which for $350 or so allowed us to be placed on the MLS for 6 months. It worked after 72 days.
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Posted 1/12/2007 4:05:21 PM
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Also getting more exposure by listing it on the MLS.
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Posted 1/12/2007 5:33:40 PM
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If you go FSBO and place your home in the local MLS system, it's just as good as having an agent working for you. All agents use the MLS.
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Posted 1/23/2007 12:17:02 PM
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| I had noted in all my ads that I was willing to work with a buyer's agent and their realtor found my expired MLS listing (it was only supposed to run for 60 days). 3% is better than 6% and I got my asking price.
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Posted 2/27/2007 11:10:42 AM
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| I paid to go on the MLS with owners.com. The broker involved helped me with all the paper work i needed. I believe that 95% of all realestate is sold by a buyers agent not the listing agent, so I agreed to pay the buyers agent 3% commission thereby saving me the 3% COMMISSION the listing agent wants.
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Posted 3/6/2007 5:51:19 PM
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I think we would have sold our home in less than two weeks if we had put it on the MLS to begin with.
First weekend on the MLS did it!
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Posted 3/12/2007 3:00:57 PM
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We ended up listing our home with a MLS listing Company and our buyer came through with a realtor. We paid 2.5% to the buyer's agent.
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Posted 4/4/2007 12:02:16 PM
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We ended up listing on the MLS for a fee. That improved our showings exponentially. So our buyer came from an agent, who viewed our home on the MLS. Our listing was so professionally done, she was surprised we were FSBO.
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Posted 4/4/2007 12:31:26 PM
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| Thanks to the Flat Fee MLS listing that we purchased from Owners.com and a competitive rate for the buyers realtor (remember offering a 2-3% commission to the buyers realtor is a lot better than 6% to your realtor. Most realtors for the buyer only receive about 1.8% when all is said and done) our house was shown by a realtor from the MLS listing. We sold our house in 5 weeks!
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Posted 4/27/2007 10:30:59 AM
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Because i live on a quiet street, i decided i needed more exposure, so i put my house on the mls for $377 online.
That was a cost effective decision, as it really brought realtors through. i had agreed to pay a 2 1/2 finder's fee to realtors, and feel it was a good investment.
After just two months we had two offers, settled on the one that was very close to our asking price, and we're now out of attorney review, and awaiting our closing date.
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