Posts tagged 'FSBO'

Many people ask me whether they should try to sell their home by owner rather than paying a REALTOR to sell it for them. That is a relatively easy question to answer but a hard one for many home sellers to swallow. It’s always hard to give up part of your hard earned equity and unfortunately, many REALTORS fail to truly earn their commission making it even harder to let go.

If you pull up the real estate stats for your local area, you will likely find that over 80% of the home sellers that list their home as for sale by owner eventually enlist a REALTOR to sell their home for them. For the other 20%, more than half say they would never do it again. Of the other half, 7% sold their home to someone they knew so really, less than 13% of FSBO sellers actually stuck it out and weathered the storm.