| Steve Horrillo 2005-07-08, 11:25 pm |
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On 8-Jul-2005, "Jeff Strickland" <spamcatcher@yahoo.net> wrote:
quote:
> to
> would
>
> Steve, I think these are national numbers, I don't think they hold true,
> or
> quite so true, in California where you and I are. I can't support them,
> but
> I have seen them, or numbers like these, before.
>
> As you are well aware, the decision to go it alone with a FSBO is highly
> dependent on the market for success. Here in California, I think that
> FSBOs
> have greater success than many other places, a large part of that is
> because
> escrow does more here than in other states. I know that I had to do more
> on
> my purchase and my sale because I went it alone, but I was able to work
> well
> with escrow on both transactions. The escrows in both said that I was
> among
> the better customers they worked with, most people simply are not well
> suited to deal with this sort of stuff. Certainly many are, but there is
> no
> denying that many aren't.
>
> This discussion started off as a look at using a Buyer's Agent, the fact
> that we are discussing the pitfalls of selling shows how much confusion
> there can be.
I'm in South Florida not CA. But the situations seem to be similar. From
what I've seen, there's no way I'd wouldn't use the MLS to sell my home. My
best friend, a Realtor of 20 years sold her home with a yard sign and was so
proud she got her asking price in two weeks. Fact is, she asked too low.
Within two weeks after she sold an identical townhouse sold on the MLS for
20k higher! When I worked for Buy Owner I would sign up at least two
Realtors per month. It amazes me that even Realtors succumb to the ego trip
and greed factor of thinking they can do better selling it themselves.
Warmest regards,
Steve Horrillo, Realtor / C.Ht.
http://BrokerAgentTraining.com http://over100percent.com http://HipFSBO.com
http://eLOWn.com
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