Fizzbo Central » FAQ 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 FSBO Tips to Make Your Home More Sellable via Photos http://www.fizzbocentral.com/fsbo-tips-to-make-your-home-more-sellable-via-photos/ http://www.fizzbocentral.com/fsbo-tips-to-make-your-home-more-sellable-via-photos/#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:05:55 +0000 admin http://www.fizzbocentral.com/?p=26 When you are acting as your own house agent, it is important that you put effort into the sale. While you may have a great home, so do thousands of other people. Putting a bit of thought and time into even small touches can greatly make a difference on how potential buyers will react when they take a tour of your home.

You need to put yourself in the place of the buyer. They are all going to have different tastes. For this reason, a home needs to appeal to the general likes of the public and many elements should be neutral. Your goal with be that no matter who comes to your home to have a look, they will be able to imagine themselves living there. Your furniture and decorating style will not be so bold that they cannot look passed that and see their own furniture there. Your colors will not be so overwhelming that they will not be able to envision the home with their own taste in colors.

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One of the most important elements to marketing your home will be the photos that go along with your listing. It is very crucial to take new photographs and never use outdated ones. You will want the outside photos to reflect the current season. If that oak tree in your front yard has grown big and provide nice shading now, do not use a photograph in which that huge tree was a little small sapling.

Always invest in a high quality camera if you do not have one or cannot borrow one. You will want your photos to speak to the viewer, saying, and “Come look at me”. Photographs that appear hazy, out of focus or are too dark simply will not bring you the traffic that you want. Before you begin taking photos of your home, simply stand outside and look at the house from an unbiased viewpoint. Look at the details. Do the curtains that show through the window in the living room look dingy? Are the flowers outside of the walkway wilted? Does the front door need a fresh coat of paint? Little touches mean a lot. Therefore, before you begin snapping, do take the time to make the house look as nice as possible. Do keep in mind that while the focus will be on the house, if you do not think about the background, the focus may go there instead. Be sure to have all cluttered removed from around the home, do not have children’s toys in the photo and if your neighbor is washing his car and could end up in the background, do wait until he is done.

When you are ready to take pictures, check on one more thing: the weather. This can have a huge impact on a buyer’s opinion. Be sure that the day is nice and sunny. A cloudy or rainy day is not the day to show people what your home looks like, as even the coziest of abodes can look dull and even depressing in bad weather.

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]]> http://www.fizzbocentral.com/fsbo-tips-to-make-your-home-more-sellable-via-photos/feed/ 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 What you Need to Know About Disclosure http://www.fizzbocentral.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-disclosure/ http://www.fizzbocentral.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-disclosure/#comments Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:50:35 +0000 admin http://www.fizzbocentral.com/?p=15 Discloser in regard to house sales is the legal responsibility of the seller or agent to tell any prospective buyers about any defects of the home prior to the sale.

When you are selling a home, if you have an agent that agent is legally bound to disclose any defects regarding the house to potential buyers. When you sell your home yourself, to take the middleman out of the picture and keep all of the profits, you also are legally bound to disclose any information regarding your home. If you do not follow the proper guidelines, you can find yourself in deep water, as you can ultimately be sued for damages. While it does not happen often, there are cases in which a seller has been sued and forced to take the home back.

For this reason, it is very important to understand the elements of disclose to make sure that you follow these by the book. Most states do have mandatory discloser laws. These laws protect a buyer and ensure that they are given any pertinent information regarding defects of the home. The most important element to know is that you are bound to disclose the defects even when not asked. Therefore, if the basement has a leak or floods during rainy season, if they potential buyer does not think to ask about this, you must give them this information, in other words, you must “disclose” it.

Now, one thing to keep in mind is that disclosing information is not necessarily going to make potential buyers go running. Many buyers are interested in properties that need repairs, as they know that the asking price will be lower and this may be just the type of home that they are interested in buying. In addition, unless a home is brand new, most buyers do know that a home cannot be perfect.

While you market your home with an upbeat tone of voice and a pleasant spiel about its benefits and pluses, do take the time to also casually mention its faults. It may help to give a specific example of when a defect affected you and the steps that you took to resolve it. For example, if water does go into your basement during heavy rains let the potential owners know, but then follow up by telling them about how your pump handles it well, perhaps let them know that the pump will be given to them if they do purchase the house and how often to expect such an issue.

Your disclosure can also serve you well in negotiations. If a known issue would cost 3K to resolve and you offer to lower the price by 2K, they buyer may wish to opt for the lower price and perhaps resolve the issue some time down the road or may even opt to fix it themselves.

Your biggest question may be, “what constitutes a disclosure?” It is suggested to have your home inspected. If the inspected finds red flags and you do not have those issues fixed, they would be issues that you should disclose. Be sure to find an experience inspected, as in the end, the responsibility to disclose any home defects will fall on you and not the inspector.

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]]> http://www.fizzbocentral.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-disclosure/feed/ 0 Time To Get The Low Down On The FSBO FAQ http://www.fizzbocentral.com/time-to-get-the-low-down-on-the-fsbo-faq/ http://www.fizzbocentral.com/time-to-get-the-low-down-on-the-fsbo-faq/#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:48:23 +0000 admin http://www.fizzbocentral.com/real-estate/time-to-get-the-low-down-on-the-fsbo-faq/ Whenever you hear the words FSBO what do you think of? Well if you do not know what that stands for then you more than likely have no idea. FSBO stands for For Sale By Owner. This place is the fastest growing for sale by owner site on the internet. There are some other places that try and say that they are number one, but they are just using smoke and mirrors. There is no place on the internet that is going to give you more help than FSBO when you are trying to sell your house by yourself. Now you can sell your house by yourself without being by yourself.

FSBO (or For Sale By Owner) is one of the fastest growing markets on the internet. This is for people who are trying to sell their own home. Now you can actually get your home to sell without having to pay someone a fee. First of all, we need to talk about some of the good things about FSBO. When you use to want to try and sell your home by yourself you had to wait for the word of mouth to kick in. Now with the FSBO website you have the power of the internet behind you. The best thing about FSBO is that you have nothing to lose. If your house does not sell then you get a full return of your money. This means that if you put your house up on their website and it does not get a bite then you are going to get all your money back. If you are trying to sell your house there is no deal that is better than that one. Selling your own home has never been easier.

When I am thinking of FSBO I start thinking of the fact that I do not have to pay any commission on my home. That means that you do not have to give someone 6% of what your home is worth in order for them to sell it. That means that is going to put more money back in your pocket. That way you can use that money for more important things like finding your own house and putting a down payment on it. Also, when I say that you do not have to do it alone I mean that you do not have to do it alone. You are going to have full access to their hotline. That means that you can reach them day or night to help you get your house off the market as quickly as humanly possible. Many people have problems trying to sell their home themselves, however, with FSBO on your side you are going to be just fine.

If you have any questions all you have to do is look at the FSBO FAQ, and you will see that all your questions can be answered there. If you still have a question that needs to be answered then all you need to do is get a hold of them, and they will answer your question one on one. Remember this company is here to help you. Having a way to get your hands on all the tools they have available to you is great. I think that you are going to be amazed at how fast you sell your home After all, the best part about putting your home up on the market is the fact that you get a new one. So do not waste time waiting for your home to sell.

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