Tips For Selling Your Home or Other Real Estate By Owner

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Instant Online Home Valuations

For help in setting a sale price for your home, you may choose to speak with local real estate agents who have access to local comps which can give you some ideas of what other similar properties have sold for recently. Be aware that whenever a real estate agent visits your home to provide you with comps and other free information, their only goal is to do their sales presentation and get you to sign an exclusive listing agreement with them.

Other sources of local sales information include your neighbors, friends, and others who have bought and/or sold in your neighborhood recently. Visit other real estate properties for sale which may be competing with your home to see how they are priced.

Electronic Appraiser: One of the most accurate and detailed sources for Home Valuations can be found online and accessed instantly. The valuation for your home includes a full report with:

• Automated Valuation Model (AVM)
• Estimated Market Value what is this?
• Up to 20 Recent Comparable Sales
• Detailed Maps with Comps
• Real - Time Property Information
• Tax Assessor Data
• Lot Size, Square Footage
• Legal Description
• Sales History
• Charted Valuation - Trend graphs

• Electronic Appraiser: Instant On-Line Home Valuations

Preview your ad

After placing your home for sale by owner ad, click the [Preview] link to the right of your new ad to view your FSBO listing as it will appear online. Complete any necessary changes then save your ad.

At this point, it is recommended that you create and add your My Home Blog link to your listing. Get your free personal my home blog now!

Announce your home for sale

One of the most popular tools used by real estate agents in order to advertise your home is the notification of your neighbors, whether in your building or on your block. Print a flyer of your listing and deliver them to your neighbors. Stick them under doors, in mailboxes, and in your neighbors’ hands.

In addition to your neighbors, fsboTimes recommends that you notify your friends, family, co-workers etc.

Tools for announcing your home for sale

Free and effective ways of announcing your home for sale locally.

Announce your home for sale via email:

While Previewing your ad from the myfsboTimes Control Center or viewing your ad on fsboTimes.com, click the Send to a Friend link then input the names and email addresses of those you would like to notify. Enter a short introduction then click Send Email. Each person on your list will receive your message along with a link to your ad.

Announce your home for sale via flyers:

While Previewing your ad from your myfsboTimes Control Center or viewing your ad on fsboTimes.com, click the Print Flyer link. Print multiple copies of your ad for distribution to family, friends, co-workers, neighbors and in locations such as your building’s lobby, community center etc.

If you live in an apartment building, print and distribute a flyer to each apartment within your building. Often, the owner of the apartment on either side, above or below your apartment may be interested in expanding their apartment and may be the most motivated buyer possible.

Also, others living in your building may be interested in moving to a bigger apartment, an apartment on a higher floor, one with a better view or may be interested in finding an apartment for a friend or family member who wants to live in your building.

If you live in a house, print and distribute a flyer to each house on your block as well as each house on the next 5 blocks to the north, south, east and west of your home. Neighbors can often be your best allies in selling your home and may know a friend or family member who is interested in moving to your neighborhood.

Maximize Your Newspaper Print Ad

A great way of maximizing the use of print ads is to point to your free fsboTimes listing which contains a lot more information than you are able to put in the newspaper. This can allow you to save hundreds or thousands of dollars in advertising.

Use your free for sale by owner ad on fsboTimes.com to add images and as much text as you need to describe your home, neighborhood, improvements etc. In addition, your free fsbo ad allows you to place video tours, virtual tours and much more online…all free.

Simply add your fsboTimes Ad ID to your newspaper’s real estate print ad and anyone interested in your home will be able to view your pictures, full description of your home, your virtual tour, video ads, my home blog etc.

Sample Addition to Maximize Your Newspaper Print Ad

Additional Steps for selling your home or other real estate by owner

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