Fizzbow and Real Estate How-To
Fizzbow (a.k.a FSBO or For-Sale-By-Owner) is an industry term to describe about one in five homeowners who choose to sell their home on their own and without the assistance of a realtor.
If you’re browsing Homethinking, and after contacting a few realtors, the whole process has gotten you a little down, you may want to explore the option of listing your house yourself. Or even if you don’t, understanding the process will help grease the wheels of the sale by avoiding any misunderstandings.
There are lots of great resources on the Internet to help you sell your home. One very good one is Audrie.com, started by a group of former agents just outside of Atlanta. Articles range from setting the right price for the home to closing the negotiations and sale. There are scores more useful articles, so if you’re making the incredibly financially significant decision to sell your home at the moment, be sure to read up first.
[…] At Homethinking, we’re dedicated to helping people find the right Realtor to sell their home with. We think that a good Realtor can provide definite benefits for anyone thinking about selling their most valuable asset. But while we’re of the opinion that real estate professionals are well worth their commissions, not everyone agrees with us. FSBOs (For Sale By Owner) are certainly a valid slice of the market, and so I decided to find out just how many there were. Of course, this wasn’t as easy as it might sound, so I had to settle for stats on currently available FSBOs from one of the largest FSBO sites on the web, ForSaleByOwner.com, coupled with projected census data for 2005. […]
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13 Sep 06 at 12:17 pm