Fizzbo Central » Advertise http://www.fizzbocentral.com What Is A FSBO? Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:05:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 How to Prepare for the Placement of that FSBO Sign http://www.fizzbocentral.com/how-to-prepare-for-the-placement-of-that-fsbo-sign/ http://www.fizzbocentral.com/how-to-prepare-for-the-placement-of-that-fsbo-sign/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:18:21 +0000 admin http://www.fizzbocentral.com/?p=22 If you decide to sell your home, and if you choose to put an FSBO sign on your property, as opposed the sign donated by a realtor, then you need to prepare for the placement of that sign. You need to get yourself ready to become a successful seller. You must transform your desire for a buyer into a winning FSBO strategy. Six simple steps can guarantee completion of that transformation.

The first step is easy—set a specific goal. If you have decided to sell your home, then you already have that goal firmly fixed in your mind. Once you have found a buyer for your home, then you will know that you have fulfilled your goal.

The next step requires a bit more thought. Next you need to establish a specific time period in which you plan to achieve your goal. If you are being forced to sell your home, then you have already learned about your timetable. If you are not under pressure to sell your home in a hurry, you still owe it to your neighbors to limit the amount of time that a “for sale” sign stands on your property.

Consider the plan that you want to follow as you go about selling your home. Make sure that your plan matches with the time period that you have established for the marketing of your home. Once you have formulated a plan then more to step four.

Step four involves the writing of your goal, and your plans for achieving that goal. Once you have used pen and ink to lay out the specifics for your plan, then you might realize that you need to add something more to your plan. That addition should take you to step number five.

Step number five calls for the setting of an asking price. Think about what price you are planning to ask for your home. Keep in mind the danger of asking too high a price. Such a price could drive away a potential buyer. Sometimes a seller needs to sacrifice a bit of what he or she hoped to make on a home, in order to find a buyer for that residence.

After you have completed steps one through five then you are ready to work on step six. Step six can seldom be completed in a single day, of even in a single week. When the seller of an FSBO property has chosen to tackle step six, then that seller needs to think about his or her goal every single day. Attainment of that goal should be the seller’s top priority.

Of course, the seller should not just sit and think about his or her goal. The seller should act from day one. The minute that the seller has completed steps one through five, then the seller should start to put into action whatever strategy has been developed. By taking immediate action, a seller helps to make sure that any planned strategy will eventually be viewed as a winning strategy.

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]]> http://www.fizzbocentral.com/how-to-prepare-for-the-placement-of-that-fsbo-sign/feed/ 0 Tips for Buying an FSBO Home http://www.fizzbocentral.com/tips-for-buying-an-fsbo-home/ http://www.fizzbocentral.com/tips-for-buying-an-fsbo-home/#comments Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:54:33 +0000 admin http://www.fizzbocentral.com/?p=18 When you think about buying a home, you probably envision this being done with a real estate agent. Perhaps you’ve thought about how that agent would dedicate themselves to showing you potential houses and walk you through the steps and when you do find the house of your dreams, you would have that real estate agent to thank. However, a growing number of home owners are buying FBSO houses and finding that it saved them considerable amounts of money. Let’s look at the ways that purchasing a home that is “for sale by owner” can be beneficial to you.

At any given time more than twenty percent of houses on the market are for sale by owner houses. Now, this obviously means that there is a not an agent on the selling side, however there does not need to be one on the buying side either. If you involve an agent when purchasing an FSBO house, you or the buyer would need to pay a commission to that agent and both of you do not want to do that. By following some clear guidelines, you can cut out the middle man, making the process beneficial to both parties involved.

The first thing that you should do is to stay within your means. While we have all heard this advice before, there are millions of credit card holders who have not followed it. Decide what your maximum budget is and never go above this amount.

Once you know what your maximum price would be for the house of your dreams, figure out how much you can afford for a down payment, while still leaving yourself a good amount of emergency money. While putting down 20K may seem like a great idea, if that leaves you with nothing left in your bank account, you may be better off putting down 15K and having some backup. Once you know your figures, it is time to get pre-approved. This is an important element to buying FSBO homes, as the seller will know that you are serious and ready to get down to business.

You’ll next want to scan around for FSBO houses, very simply done via the Internet. Now, since the seller does not have an agent and you do not need one either, the next step is to simply contact the seller. Make a list of questions you wish to ask about the property so that you can rule out any that do not suit your needs. To cover yourself and make sure that you would be paying a fair price, you will want to obtain a valuation report for the property. This is much like the information that a real estate agent would receive, showing the comparative market analysis, known as CMA. The CMA will compare the house to others that have sold recently in the neighborhood.

Before making an offer to the seller, you next step would be to obtain an attorney, preferably a real estate lawyer who specializes in home sales. Once you are backed by legal counsel, your attorney will guide you through the process of making an offer and closing the deal.

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]]> http://www.fizzbocentral.com/tips-for-buying-an-fsbo-home/feed/ 0 How To Advertise Your Fizzbo To The World http://www.fizzbocentral.com/how-to-advertise-your-fizzbo-to-the-world/ http://www.fizzbocentral.com/how-to-advertise-your-fizzbo-to-the-world/#comments Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:06:23 +0000 admin http://www.fizzbocentral.com/real-estate/how-to-advertise-your-fizzbo-to-the-world/ If you are looking to sell your home by yourself then you are going to need a way to get your house out there to the world. That is the number one problem that people have when ever they are looking to sell their house themselves. The good news for those people is the fact that you now have a site to help you do this, and its called Fizzbo. This is a company that is going to help get your house out there to the world, and help it get the notice that it needs to sell. This is the quickest and easiest way to sell your home. The great news is that you are not going to have to pay someone else to sell your home!

Whenever people are selling their own home the number one problem that they run into is getting their house known out there on the market. That is why so many people have realtor’s do it for them. However, the problem with realtor’s is the fact that they get a big profit from selling your house, and no one wants to pay those kinds of fees. Now with the help from sites, like Fizzbo, you are now able to go out and sell your home by yourself. This is because when you list your house on Fizzbo you no longer have to worry about getting your house out there to the world, Fizzbo is going to do it for you. There are so many different tools that you can use on this site to help you get your house off the market just as fast as Fizzbo put it on there. You are going to save so much money doing it yourself that you are going to have some money left over to do whatever you want with it.

Now some people do not like to use sites like Fizzbo because you have to pay to use their web site. However, when you think about it, even though you are paying for their web site you are still saving a lot of money. Instead of having to pay for the fees on your house that you pay with a Realtor, you are going to have to pay the small fee with Fizzbo. This is going to save you so much money that you may not know what to do with it. Also, you are going to be able to put your house on the market for a lot less than what you were going to put it on the market for the Realtor. This is because you do not have to add the cost of paying the Realtor to sell your house. Now you can put a better price on your house and have a lot more offers. From there you can go with the offer you like the best which would more than likely be the higher one.

It is not as hard to sell your our home nowadays. It used to be a lot more work than it is now. In fact, the more I think about it the more that I think that I will sell my house. It seems like you could end up with a lot of extra money if that is what you choose to do. In fact, a lot of people go around and buy up extra houses just to sell them and make a great profit on them later. Buy doing this you could end up making a ton of money. However, the choice is yours. Whether you are looking to make a lot of money or you are just looking to sell your house, you can rest assure that Fizzbo can help you.

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