For Sale by Owner (FSBO) Why not sell it on your own?
By Fred Jaeger, Real Estate Connection - Central Oregon
(High Lakes Realty and Property Management)
At first thought, selling your house by yourself on the open market without the assistance or the cost of an Agency representing you, might seem tempting. After all, how much work could it possibly be to sell a house anyway? You just plunk a sign out in the yard, run a couple newspaper ads, park yourself in the rocker on the front porch for a while and wait for the buyers to start showing up, literally at your doorstep. I’ll admit that perhaps that particular strategy has worked, and may still work on that rarest of rare occasions… at least getting the buyers to your door, that-is. The problem is that even if that was the extent of your Marketing strategy, there’s still some major hurdles to be cleared before you’ve got signatures on the dotted line and have actually closed the transact...
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