Home Selling Secrets From Fizber

For Sale By Owner website Fizber.com shares seven winning ideas for selling your home

Miami Beach, FL (PRWEB) April 24, 2008 -- Since the price of a typical home in the United States continues to drop, Fizber.com is helping home sellers who don't want to lose even more of their home's value by paying a 6 percent commission to a real estate broker. By providing online marketing, flat-rate MLS services, instant home appraisals and access to legal forms, Fizber.com offers all FSBO tools that homeowners need to market and sell their home in today's tough real estate market.

Fizber.com shares these "Seven Home Selling Secrets" that have proven to be effective in selling a home "for sale by owner."

1. Price the Home Competitively: An agent's commission cost home sellers 6 percent of their home's value. Fizber.com customers are able to competitively price their home compared to similar homes represented by agents and still come out ahead financially because they are not paying commission.

2. Make the Internet work for you: Fizber.com posts your listing to 80 partner sites. Putting a home on Fizber.com helps home sellers market their home to millions of buyers. To turn Internet browsers into customers, online property listings should boast multiple high quality, digital photographs of their home's interior and exterior. The online listing should be combined with a yard sign to attract people driving by the home.

3. Consider Placing the Home on the MLS: The Multiple Listing Service, or MLS, is a complete inventory of homes on the market. Sellers should remember they no longer need a real estate agent to get their home on the MLS, their home can be placed on the MLS through Fizber.com.

4. Monitor and Update your Listing: If it's April, you don't want the photo of your house displaying a snowman on the lawn. An out-of-season picture is a dead giveaway that your home has been on the market for awhile. And with many buyers doing their first "look-see" on the Internet, the quality of the photos is paramount, too.

5. Don't Be Afraid of the Paperwork: While one of the biggest myths in real estate is that agents handle the legal paperwork, the fact is that other professionals provide these services. Whether a seller uses an agent or goes "for sale by owner," outside help is needed to navigate through the legal process of transferring the title. A real estate attorney or title company will prepare and handle all of the legal paperwork for sellers.

6. Smart Sellers Hire Professional Stagers: If you are in the market to sell your home, one of the best decisions you can make is to use the services of a professional Home Stager. Having a home professionally staged is the single best way to outshine the competition.

7. Sweeten the Deal: Sellers are reportedly offering some unusual sales incentives--plasma TVs, cars, boat slips, vacations, and golf carts--but cash may still be king. Dollars carry a lot more weight than a free TV. For example, some sellers have agreed to pay condo maintenance fees for the buyer. If six similar condos are on the market, and a seller offers to pay the first quarter's maintenance fees--which run from $225 to $250 a month in this area--that $750 can help make a deal. Other ideas include covering moving expenses or a month's mortgage payment.

About Fizber.com
Fizber.com is the nation's leading "for sale by owner" website. The company charges a modest fee for its wide range of advertising and real estate resources, priced from $49 to $499. In contrast, a person selling a $300,000 home through a real estate agent would be charged a 6 percent commission fee and pay approximately $18,000. Prospective homebuyers can browse property database, available at www.fizber.com, at no charge.

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