Seller's Tool Kit

One of the first things you need to do is to price your property.  Pricing it appropriately is vital, especially in a slow market when buyers are very picky about price.

When your marketing tools are in place, you should get at least one showing per week.  If you are not getting a showing a week, revisit the price issue.

You can get an accurate Home Value Estimate and other comprehensive reports at Home Property Values.

At an early point in the game of selling your property, you need to buy a FOR SALE BY OWNER sign, lead-in signs, brochure boxes and the like.  You can buy a personalized sign with your home's web address (on fsboamerica) and your phone number at Buy Real Estate Signs Here.

If you buy a personalized fsboamerica FOR SALE BY OWNER sign (see preceeding paragraph), we will credit back the $25 you are charged for your listing's second month on our site.  When you see the charge on your credit card, just email us that you have made the sign purchase, we will confirm your purchase, and make the credit back to you.  Email for $25 SIGN CREDIT 

You will need flyers and brochures to help market your home.  If you're good with a computer, make your own.  A magazine style layout with lots of photos is great.  Or you can simply print out your listing on fsboamerica.  Or, for a professional, user friendly "Print Creator" to help you jazz up your marketing print visuals, visit realtour.biz

If you are interested in receiving contract offers from real estate agents--read on.  (If not, skip to the next paragraph.)  The free flyer site offers the service of sending emails to all the realtors® in your area offering your property for sale (of course, there is a fee for that).   You still have to pay the buyer's agent, usually half of the normal total listing fee, but you don't have to pay a listing agent (not even a flat fee agent) to put your property listing in the mls.  For this service, go to Email realtors®.

If your home doesn't show well, you may need to change floor coverings, refinish floors, upgrade kitchen and bathrooms, and repaint the interior and/or exterior of your property.  Competent help can be found @ Builders & Remodelers

If your home doesn't show well, or function as it should, you might also have need for tradesmen like plumbers, electricians, painters, home inspectors, septic & well services, handymen, etc.  There is a small membership fee, but you can find Thousands of unbiased ratings and reviews @ Local Service Companies

If you are approached by a would-be buyer who is naive and has not made contact with a lender yet, you may need to point them in the direction of getting pre-qualified.  You can find lenders on our Mortgage Loans page.

Also, if you need to make some improvements before putting your property on the market, but don't really have funds for that purpose, you can find lenders who can help you with that here, too.   Mortgage Loans

It often helps if sellers will offer a home warranty policy as a buyer's incentive.  After all, a buyer who has just stretched the budget to buy a home might feel that the possibility of a major appliance or household system going out during the first year would make life very uncomfortable.  If you could put the buyer's mind at ease by agreeing to provide a home warranty policy, that would tend to make your property more attractive.  Home Warranty

If you encounter a buyer who says he or she wants to buy your property, but doesn't know how to get a written contract offer prepared, you can help him or her get to the necessary forms for your state.  It's always a good idea to get it in writing while you are both agreed on what you want to do and the ideas are still fresh in both your minds.  Forms appropriate to each state are available at  Real Estate Forms By State

If you think you want to sell your property yourself, but are unsure how to proceed (or even if that's really the approach you want to take), you can find out a great deal more by reading one or more authors' ideas on the subject.  FSBO Books

In order to bring buyers and sellers to our site, we at fsboamerica hired an internet marketing firm, MarketingTitan.com, in August of 2005.  They have done a marvelous job for us.  Our number of visitors and page hits continues to climb.  (Email us if you'd like to know the current numbers.)

If you have a property to sell that warrants special Internet marketing of it's own, you might want the help of MarketingTitan, too.  You might also want to use them if you have some other Internet project that could use some help getting visitors.  Internet Marketing

Title, Settlement & Escrow Companies (coming soon)

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