Selling by Owner 101

Top 12 home improvements that will sell your home fast

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You can reduce the price of property or you can pay someone to do it for you and pay them 6% to do it.

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Because 41% of sellers paid no commissions at all, the total commissions saved by the entire group was 80% less than they would have normally paid if they had listed with full service traditional real estate.

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Here is a great property link brought to our attention by a retired Realtor that allows you to type in your address and get public information like true taxes (required for any real estate listing), assessment information, previous sale information etc….This information was once available to only licensed individuals.

It is call the Monroe County Real [...]

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You can go to this link (click on the logo)  and research the last sales on your street or any street in NY.

This database contains information about the real estate transactions that occurred in New York state since 1993. Data for Monroe County is supplied by the Monroe County Clerk’s office and is updated weekly. [...]

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Don’t spend the $30 dollars before you read this on lockboxes.

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Placing an ad on Homescape…. don’t fall for it. 
I recently heard of a FSBO couple who wanted to be listed with the real estate listings on the D & C.  They contacted the Democrat and Chronicle and were told that they could gain access to it for (don’t quote me) $100 which they gladly paid, but the property didn’t [...]

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As banks tighten up their lending practices,  buyers are finding it harder to obtain financing and sellers are finding it harder to find  buyers for the cash out purchase.   It becomes a vicious circle.
So, if obtaining a bank mortgage was the only means of purchasing real estate we would all see a price reduction, because of [...]

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Should a For Sale by Owner offer a Home Warranty? 
A friend of mine who is a real estate attorney bought his home almost one year ago this month.  Along with the purchase of the home came a one year home warranty that the seller had paid for to help sell the property.  The home warranty company was [...]

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These tips are directly from the Realtor Magazine. 
FSBO’s (For Sale by Owners) who are selling it themselves should do exactly what the professionals do…  List it on the Realtor MLS!!!  If you are in the Rochester NY area check out www.list2move.com and discover for yourself the exposure it brings. 

Look at Pending Contracts while paying close attention to square footage. 

We [...]

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