The Sell My House Blog

These days over 80% of people looking to buy a new house start on the internet. The days of advertising a home for sale in the newspaper classified ad section of the newspaper is long gone, for both real estate agents and the sell my house myself FSBO sellers.

The internet has been a true game changer for the real estate industry. You can significantly increase your chances of successfully selling your home by putting your home out there where the vast majority of buyers are looking.

Here are several excellent places to consider listing your FSBO property for sale (to go to the website just click on the name):

Zillow

I’ve mentioned Zillow in another article as an online source for property valuations, but Zillow is also one of the best places to list your sale by owner property. And best of all – it’s free! Zillow allows you to upload plenty of photos which you’ll want to do no matter which websites you’re using to advertise your home.

Craig’s List

Craig’s List is an online classified ads website, and it serves virtually every major city in the U.S. Craig’s List users number in the millions, whether as advertisers, or people looking for things – like your house! Craig’s List is also a free service. The best way to postan ad for Craig’s List is to first create it at Postlets or GoGoPin. Both of these are free sites.

ChoiceA

This is another great site for listing your home for sale. They offer a free listing package, but they also have two other options which you have to pay for that offer additional tools. But even the free package will create a website for your home, will allow unlimited photo uploads, will syndicate your listing to their partner site, and will also submit the listing to a number of search engines. Pretty cool!

Oodle

Another very popular classified ad website where you can post your sell my house ad listing for free. Again, you might want to create your ad first at Postlets or GoGoPin.

Bargain Network Homes

This site isn’t free, but it’s cheap. For only $1.49 a month you can create an ad, place photos and add a detailed description of your property. When you use this service your ad will also be placed in the AOL.com’s real estate section.

The #1 reason that every year thousands of Americans make the decision to “sell my house myself” is that they can save themselves thousands and thousand of dollars by by not paying a real estate agent. Consider that a typical real estate commission these days is around 6.0%; the commission you would pay a real estate agent if your home sold for $350,000 is a whopping $21,000! Ouch!

Selling your house by yourself may seem intimidating at first. The Sell My House blog has been written for the purpose of giving you the tools and knowledge that you need to be successful in today’s lukewarm real estate market, and to hopefully give you the competitive edge you need in order to “out-market” not only the other FSBO sellers in your neighborhood, but also the real estate agents who are competing to sell their listings in your neighborhood.

Even if you follow this guide carefully no one can guarantee that selling your home on your own will be easy. The truth is that selling a home, even when you enlist the help of a real estate professional, can be nerve-wracking and stressful. But the fact remains that many people have successfully sold their home on their own and you can do the same.

You might not realize it but the only difference between you and a real estate agent, or another FSBO seller, is knowledge If you gather the right knowledge (and you will after you have read through the articles on this website) you’ll attract all the buyers you’ll ever need to sell your home for top dollar in a short period of time!

Real estate professionals will never admit this but this is the truth: your home will almost sell itself based on it’s own merits of price and condition. If you get both correct, and you are able to let enough people know that your house is for sale, your home will sell. However, if the price or condition is not in line, or nobody even knows that your house is for sale, then your home has no chance of selling (and that applies even if you have a real estate agent involved).

Please enjoy reading through the other articles on the site, and best of luck to you in selling your home now that you’ve made the decision to “sell my house myself!”