Buy or Sell Your Home

Sell your home yourself and save thousands of dollars. Real estate agents take around 6% of the selling price of your home! For example, if your home is worth $150,000, you would pay your agent $9,000! Usually 3% goes to the seller's agent and 3% goes to the buyer's agent.

Selling your home yourself is not tough and think of how much money you can save. If you had an agent they would advertise your house and then schedule showings. At closing they make sure all of the paperwork is filled out correctly. You can do this yourself with the help of ForSaleByOwner.com. They walk you through every step.

How do I know, because they helped us sell our $225,000 home. Our possible savings would have been $13,500 selling it ourselves, but we chose to pay buyer agents 2% to bring in their customers. This is an option you can perform when you sell your home yourself on forsalebyowner.com but you don't have to opt for this. We did because the market in our area was slow and we wanted to make sure we got as many buyers aware of our house as possible. We paid forsalebyowner.com a few hundred dollars to list our home on the MLS system and to advertise our house online and we also got yard signs sent to us in the mail. Our total savings for selling our house with ForSaleByOwner.com was $9000! Unfortunatly this offer is not available in all areas, so check their website to see if it's offered in your area.

We printed out flyers right off of ForSaleByOwner.com websitethat was created for us and attached some extra pictures to the back of the flyer and gave them out at the open houses. It took us about a month to sell our home ourselves. Forsalebyowner gave us all of the paper work to fill out to make sure everything was legal and binding. It was so easy. Check into it if you are wanting to sell your home. I guarantee you will not be disappointed.

Home Selling Do's & Don'ts

You can’t sell a house the way you live in it. You must clean up and clear out if you want to sell it quick! First you must get a fresh perspective. Walk into your home and pretend it’s not yours. Look around for clutter, stains, dirty walls, anything that is detracting from the room. Do this for each room in your home. Set your own personal tastes aside and be open minded about your home. The next step is to remove items that are detracting from your home.

Remove clutter – remove stacks of magazines, books, bills, toys, and anything else that is detracting from your home.

Remove personal items in your home including your bedroom, ie heating pad, funny pillows, lingerie on the back of the door, etc. Don’t take down your family photos, but do take down anything that could be offensive to other people.

Remove big furniture in small rooms to make the room appear bigger. Rent a storage unit to put all of the furniture, don't put it in your garage, home buyers will want to see that too. You will be rewarded in the end by an offer.

Maintain your home, don’t let grass get to long, vacuum constantly and dust frequently so you will be ready for an impromptu showing.

Don’t paint your rooms too dark or too bright! Paint is just paint and buyers could repaint any room, but some buyers just can’t get past too dark or too bright of colors in rooms, so just neutralize your home. Egg shell, soft colors work well.

Find another place for your dog for open houses and for showings. A barking dog at your feet will defiantly detract from your home. See if a neighbor can watch him or put him in a kennel in the garage.

For showings, only one person should be at home. It can be uncomfortable for home buyers to walk into a house and find a family reunion going on.

Selling Your Home Yourself

Home Selling Do's & Don'ts