I’ve been a professional writer and business consultant for over a year now, but many people still remember me from my financial advisor days. So, I get plenty of questions about investing, the stock market, and real estate. The number one question I get these days, is, “Should I be buying real estate now?” The …
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 in 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 …
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 and call the …
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.
Sunday and two showings. Not too shabby. Overall, 7 showings for our first weekend on the market. We’ll take it. So far, no one seems shocked at the price which is good. We had to set our price in a bit of a vaccum since no one has sold a house in our neighborhood in …
Day 7 of the series on Selling Your Own Home. Today we look at how to set showings for you house and what real estate agents will expect from you when you do.