I'm selling my house without a real estate agent. What are some ideas for unique ways to market my home online?
Step 1: buy a cell phone you can throw away after you sell your home.2: Do some research on the different real estate websites that are available to you like kajiji or craigslist. Create accounts with the ones you want to use.3. Spend AT LEAST ONE FULL DAY researching real estate scams used against people who use the above web sites so that you can be at least a little prepared for the flood of con artists you are about to expose yourself to.4. Hire a Professional Appraiser to appraiser your home for sale. Once she tells you her assessment, deduct 10% from her estimate and treat that as your sale price.5. Find a Real estate attorney who can examine any buy offers you might get.6. Post your house for sale on the above sites using the phone number of the phone you are going to throw away. Put A For Sale sign in your yard. Tell everyone you know that you are selling your house and ask them to tell everyone they know that you are selling your house.7. Wade through the hundreds of calls you are going to get from agents saying some version of, “Can I help you sell your house?” and the calls from con men and scam artists. Remember to be nice to them all because you don’t want to be rude to the one person in 20 that might actually be interested in buying (or at least looking at) your house.8. Clean your house thoroughly top to bottom. Wash the windows, wash the driveway, mow, trim, edge your lawn. Put anything in your house that displays “your personal style or taste” in storage. Keep your house perpetually clean and ready to show.9. If you get an offer, take it to your attorney for review. She can help you from there. Don’t forget that the buyer will likely have an agent that will want you to pay her commission of 3% or so. Don’t want to pay it? Then the buyer will have to pay her agent so she will just deduct 3% from her offer or just walk away entirely.10. If everything goes well, you sell your home for probably much less than an agent could have got for you using the MLS. But you saved that 3% commission! Don’t forget to throw away that phone.
Real Estate Marketing & Advertising?
You should check out Floyd Wickman's offerings. His advice is fantastic. I can boil it down for you though. 1. Put yourself in front of every single person you can find and let them know you are a Realtor! Contacts and networking are VITAL to make it in Real Estate. 2. Ask for the business! This means doing things that are often hard and unpleasant like cold calls ("Have you considered selling your home now or in the near future.") and door knocking but they work. If you don't come out and ask for the business though you won't get it. 3. Learn to close. Potential customers are happy to leave things up in the air. If you want success, you need to get to the end of the story...a yes or no answer that lets you move on to the next step. 4. Remember...flashy marketing, high tech solutions, and expensive investments (clothes/cars/etc.) might SEEM like an easy way to attract business but the reality is that you have to work for it. In these first 2 years (at least) you'll have to go out LOOKING for business every single day. Pick up the phone. Knock on doors. Hand out business cards. If you are willing to work you'll reap the eventual rewards!
Tips on selling a home?
First thing is the outside appearance. Make sure it is pleasant, clean and inviting not, scary and tacky. If you have one of them rusty aluminum swings, hide it! Pull weeds and clean up the landscaping. When showing a home, take all personal effects out of sight, such as: Knick-knacks, family photos, trophies ect. This allows the potential buyer a chance to take stock and imagine what the home would look like with their possessions, instead of poking fun at the rare moose head collection! Make sure all rooms are immaculent. In the kitchen hide all counter appliances, infact take everything off your counters. The only thing that should be on the counter is a decorative bowl with REAL fruit or some nice candles. You want the buyer to see the potential for THEM not what you've created. When showing off closet space, keep the items in the closet to a minimum. No closet full of toys and coats and presents you plan on re-gifting. Nice and neat, it should be! If you have any room with any wild color painted on the wall get it painted to a neutral tone. Make sure cabinets and drawers have matching handles.....( I can't tell you how many times I've seen a home that's kitchen cabinets and drawers were missing knobs or they didn't match! It's my biggest pet peeve.)
I'm selling my parents' home as a licensed realtor. Is it ethical to charge them a commission?
So it’s not really legal NOT to charge them a commission, unless you’re a Managing Broker doing business for yourself… to charge them nothing, you’re bringing risk upon your brokerage for zero benefit.Your Managing Broker probably wouldn’t sign off on the contract.Now that being said, flip around your mindset in the sense that if they don’t use you, they’re paying a commission to another agent, and that doesn’t seem very parental to me.A couple more things to think of:working with family is never a good idea. There can be issues that come from this and grudges that could be held on either side.If you didn’t cut out your brokerage and they got their fair share here, whatever the remainder of the commission is that’s yours, if it stays yours you have to pay taxes on it. If you did a direct reduction in the sales price of the Home (rebated your share of the commission to your parents), you’d of course want to consult your tax professional, but it’s fair to say the taxes paid may be a little lower…Original question: is it ethical? Yes, assuming you provide a service they’re willing to pay for. Also, I’m pretty sure you’re the realtor they should trust the most…Caveat, I would provide them an “out” if you think they’re on the fence to use you.
What is the best way to sell your home in Canada without a traditional real estate sales agent?
There are ways you can sell your home in Canada without a traditional real estate agent. Just to be clear, when you say traditional, that means an agent who takes care of everything to sell your home and charges a real estate commission.Recent changes in the real estate industry have made it possible for a home seller to list his property on the MLS without actually hiring an agent to sell it. You will still need a broker to do it for you but you can just opt to pay the nominal fee for the listing and do away with the other real estate services. You will need to do ALL the work such as pricing the property, preparing the home for sale, marketing it, and entertaining buyers and closing the sale.Another way you can sell a house without an agent is to do it privately. Also called For Sale by Owner (FSBO), you will take care of selling your home directly and decide on the best ways to market it to buyers. You will also need to decide if you want to offer a commission for buyers’ agents or not and you have to be clear about that. If you decide not to offer a buyers’ agent’s commission, you are at a disadvantage because majority of buyers are represented by real estate agents and they won’t want to show your house to their buyers.There are discount real estate agencies who offer real estate services at a fixed rate (example, 1% of selling price) or offer set packages for advertising at budget prices you can choose from. You will also do much if not all of the work.Selling a house without a real estate agent may save you real estate commissions but you could also take much longer to sell your house and make mistakes along the way that could cost you dearly. Be sure you are up for it.Selling a house takes a lot of work and professional experience counts. Anyone can try to sell a house but not everyone will be successful at it. To weigh your options, you may refer to FSBO vs. hiring a real estate agent and see which way you should go.
I would like some tips on selling my home quickly!?
My husband and I plan on selling our home soon. We are getting stuff clean, finishing a pantry, ect. We hope to be ready by October. What are some things we can do that are not too expensive or time consuming that will help our home sell quicker? Last time this home was sold to us, I think it was on the market for 6 to 8 months... Is that pretty average? Thanks in advance :o)
Selling a home and the legend of the St. Joseph's Statue?
My friend has her lovely home up for sale and wanted me to ask about this for her. Which direction are you suppose to place the statue and is it suppose to be face up or face down? The legend sounds a little weird to me, but she asked me to ask. Thanks in advance to any and all responses.