Finance Gourmet Blog

I’ve written recently about our attempt to sell our home without a realtor using Iggyshouse.com.  We used them because we got a free MLS listing and a place to upload a ton of description and pictures.  Their site was down for a disturbingly long time in June and part of July but is back up [...]

Ok, I’ve stopped daily updates about selling our own home. Truth is, there just isn’t that much action in real estate to justify daily postings. However, today we have 3 showings scheduled, so that is very good news. We haven’t got much in the way of feedback. One of the downsides about selling your home [...]

As you may have noticed, we are getting ready to sell our house.  After living in our first house for about 7 years, we’ve been our last two for 2 and 3 years respectively.  The interesting thing is that each time we have made a lot of money.  The past two times we’ve used this [...]

You have to be kidding! My cell phone, which is the number we have put on all of our real estate marketing, was off yesterday all afternoon. I checked it this morning just to be sure and we have 2 showing requests on there from Friday. So, we scrambled to clean up [...]

So, it’s Friday and no calls for showings yet this weekend.  This is bad news as far as I can see.  Apparently after an initial burst of interest, it has dried up.  It is still early April and we planned to have our house on the market for a while, but I’d still like to [...]

Middle of the week. Three total showings. Nothing new to report from the selling your own home without a realtor battlefront.

If you are selling your own home, you’ll need to come up with your own yard sign. There are a lot of options out there, but there is one that is better than the others.