What's the best resource for home owners to use when they don't want a realtor?
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a good realtor can help u get about 16% more for your home than u could get when selling on your own according to the president of the national association of realtors.\n\nThe best resource is a highly-qualified Realtor, if you want to sell for top dollar.
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I have had luck in the Phoenix area using the new Buyer Hunt reverse MLS service. Not too many people on there, but still worth a try.
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Realtor.com is the most comprehensive, but I like Yahoo! Real Estate better. It has more detail and photographs.
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Call a title Company, they keep these list in their data base. If you are not a real estate agent or in the business they may make you pay for the info.
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don't use a real estate agent. That's 6% of the cost of the house you'll save.
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Find a realtor that specializes in Commercial business, don't forget that you don't pay a realtot, the seller does.
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I've always used realtor.com, but recently, I found another website caled justlisted.com which emails you new listings, based on the parameters you establish, on a monthly basis. It's a really neat service because you get all the new listings as soon as they're available.
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There are many websites that you can use to find realtors, such as Homegain.com or realtor.com, or you can call specific real estate companies like Century 21, Coldwell Banker, Remax, etc. Their websites can points you to offices local to places you want to buy.
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In the current market (most areas have seen a slight but noticable decrease in home sales) I would go with a realtor. Unless you have the time/experience/resources that a realtor has at their disposal available to you they will have much better luck finding a buyer. \n\nIn this market the task is finding a buyer. Last year the task was simply picking the offer and closing on the house. \n\nGood luck
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I don't have real estate background.\n\nI change career and am now into MLM. If you are changing career, I encourage you to explore it too as an option. \n\nA website I recommend is www.network-marketing-works.com.
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Best thing you can do is apply pressure to your realtor by suggesting that you might take it off the market or sell with someone else if it doesn't sell by a certain date.  There's lots of things they an do to generate interest in your house.\n\nIf that  doesn't work just fire your realtor (in writing) and look up a real estate investor group, and go to the meeting (there are groups like this in every state), they will sometimes by your house commission-free!\n\nLastly, you can always put it up for auction.  It sounds silly but you can generate tons of interest in a semi-desirable property by auctioning it.  There is so much pressure that sometimes you end up getting more then you thought you ever could!
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Please follow the links\nhttp://www.REALESTATEBRIEF.COM \nhttp://www.REALESTATEDIGEST.INFO \nhttp://www.REALESTATEDIGEST.ORG \nhttp://www.REALESTATEMAGAZINE.INFO \nhttp://www.REALESTATENEWSLETTER.INFO \nhttp://www.REALESTATENEWSLETTER.ORG \nhttp://www.REALTORMAGAZINE.ORG
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Zillow is a good site, however the information is dated, and in some cities they use assessment values which are not a true measure of market value. Any site that depends on tax records or the recording at the court house will take time to be made public. sites like Realtor.com which get their information from sites that service real estate agents would have the information faster, however they can take as long as two weeks to update their info. Some Realtors have their own sites that are updated every 24 to 48 hours, so their site would be faster. If you know one, ask them to look up the sale price or go on their site and get the information.
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You don't have to have a realtor when buying a new home.  But if you choose not to use a realtor then you'd better have an attorney to represent you for the purchase.  The attorney will make sure that your contract contains all of the provisions that you need to have, that the mortgage documents contain nothing unusual, that you get the inspections you need and that the closing goes the way it should.  \n\nOne advantage of using a realtor is that you will get to see more houses than you might otherwise find on your own.  They will help you as far as negotiating the purchase and will provide some assistance during inspections.  They won't represent you as well as an attorney but they are still helpful for the purchase.\n\nThe buyer normally does not pay the realtor.  This is usually the responsibility of the seller.  So why not use both a realtor and an attorney?  The legal fee shouldn't be more than $500-$1000 and it is worth every bit just to prevent problems in what could be one of the biggest transactions you ever have.
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1. At an open house of one of your clients\n2. Word of mouth\n3. Create a web site\n4. The local newspaper\n\nThere are tons of realtors, so you need an angle... such as experience, niche, rebates, etc...
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Go to Realtor.com\n\nThey have a wonderful website where you can mark the things you are looking for--whether it be a rental place, or a house in the $150,000 price range.\n\nAnd it is free!
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All these answers are fairly good. Find a Real Estate office or two and "adopt" them. Go to their weelky sales meetings. Give out pens. Sponsor "Home Buyer" seminars. Be a public Speaker for any group that is available. Never visit RE offices on Fri afternoon. No one there except the"Floor Agent".  Although that may be a first relationship for you. Talk to everyone. Wear a name tag everywhere. Never dress sloppily even when in the grocery store. Never High Pressure for leads.\nWe always need lenders. Primary and secondary markets. \nGood luck.