I thought I would write a blog to help all the For Sale By Owner selling in Salt Lake. Selling For Sale By Owner or FSBO is something I know a lot about. Ok, I know some of you are rolling your eyes saying this is where the Realtor is going to tell us we have to list to sell because 80% of homes are sold by Realtor’s etc. Maybe and maybe not; it all depends on the market conditions at the current time.

Allow me to give you some credential, I was the nation Real Estate Broker working for  ForSaleByOwner.com from May 2005 to May2008. I listed dozens of flat fee listing a month for most of the Watch Front and consulted with national listing agent and customer support problems. Created new programs for ForeSaleByOwner.com to market to seller and buyers and yes sold real estate. For you people keeping score that was during the boom of the real estate flipping era. So I know a little about the For Sale By Owner  way of selling. I’ll be honest you can sell your home as a FSBO.   In today’s buyers market it harder.   It not easy because buyers are looking for the great deals of bank owned and short sales they want a great deal and those two category of homes are being show by Realtor’s only. So buyer tend to become clients of Realtors and end up seeing only listed homes not FSBO homes. I’m sorry that is the nature of the market right now. If it becomes a seller’s market again FSBO will be very effective again. I don’t see that happening anytime soon. Even if they don’t buy a short sale or bank owned home they buy a listed home. So how do you get listed without paying 6%?  Now that’s a really great question! Continue reading Selling Your Home For Sale By Owner in Salt Lake County