Why Sell For Sale By Owner?

2.   YOU CAN "SELL" YOUR HOME BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE:  You know your home best. The schools, the neighborhood, what is special about the area and the house, as well as other details about the property. A well-maintained, fairly priced home virtually sells itself; your role is simply to provide additional information.

3.   YOU'RE IN CONTROL:  Nobody is going to tell you what to do. You can advertise where and how you want to, schedule showings when it's convenient for you, talk directly with prospective buyers yourself, even take your house off the market for a while if you can't find the right house for you. You aren't obligated to a 3, 6, or 12 month contract... you make your own rules.

4.   MORE $$$ IN YOUR POCKET:  Obviously, this is the main reason that most FSBO home sellers are selling their home themselves.  You can save up to 7% commission by doing it yourself.  On a $200,000 home you may save up to $14,000.  Here’s another way of looking at it.  Let’s say that your home will sell for $200,000 and you owe $144,000 on the mortgage… so you have $56,000 in equity.  If you pay $14,000 in sales commissions, that’s 25% of your equity!  Sell it yourself… and you'll save a very large portion of your equity!

5.   YOU CAN SELL FASTER:  If you list your home at a full commission with a real estate agent, you'll probably inflate the asking price to cover the cost of the commission. Two to four months later you'll come to the painful realization that no one is going to buy your home at that price, and you'll end up reducing the price (or accepting an offer) equal to the original amount you would have asked if selling by owner. Do it right the first time, and avoid taking the loss.

6.   LESS UNCERTAINTY:  Because you meet the prospective buyers, you have a much better idea how interested people are, what they like about the home, how serious they are about buying and what their timeframe and situation is. The direct feedback is easier to live with than wondering how things are going, or worse, why no one has made an offer yet.

7.   IT'S EASY: "If you can sell your own car, you can sell your own home... it's that simple" said one of our home sellers. And he's right, the key is pricing your home correctly, exposing your home to the masses through the For Sale By Owner Magazine and the 7 websites For Sale By Owner places you, and the confidence and knowledge that you learn at one of the For Sale By Owner Seminars.  Then, once you find a buyer For Sale By Owner will take over with our Assistance Option program.  Our in-house closing department will assist in writing the contract and then we take over to get you to closing.  All you have to do is pack.  Our in-house mortgage lenders can also assist in pre-qualifying your buyers.  It's that simple - all you have to do is show your home.