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.

When you sell your house as a Sale By Owner you don’t have the benefit of being familiar with the real estate contracts and forms that are used in sales transaction. It may be a good idea to contact an attorney that specializes in real estate to help draft, or at least to review the required paperwork.

The worst time to familiarize yourself with all the contracts and forms that are used in a real estate transaction is at the time a buyer is ready to present an offer. You may be receiving an offer from a real estate agent representing a buyer, or you may be receiving an offer directly from a buyer that isn’t being represented by a real estate agent. In either case it’s best to have a working knowledge of the contracts and forms before an offer is presented.

In my state of Colorado our Real Estate Commission has made all of the real estate contracts used by real estate agents available on their website so consumers can download them and review them. I don’t know if that is available in all states.

If your state’s Real Estate Commission doesn’t provide contracts and forms on their website here is an alternative that might be helpful: USLegalForms.com. This website has contracts and forms for all 50 states. There is a modest cost to download the forms but it is well worth the cost to provide you with an opportunity to read through and gain an understanding of the contracts and forms ahead of time and I would highly recommend it..

Knowledge is the small difference between you and a real estate professional, or between you and that other “For Sale By Owner” in your neighborhood who might be competing with you for the same buyer.

You need every advantage you can get to out-market your competition. Here is a list of books from Amazon.com that you may find to be helpful and enlightening. Click on the links below the images to be directed to Amazon.com

The For Sale by Owner Handbook

For Sale by Owner (For Sale By Owner Kit)

For Sale by Owner: A Complete Guide: Everything You Need to Sell Your Home at the Highest Price Without Paying a Broker!