Boulder FSBO Listings

Of course the #1 reason to sell your house FSBO is to save a ton of money on the realtor commissions. Without going through the math - you could save roughly $22,000 for the average single family home in Boulder - let's face it Boulder real estate is expensive!

Is selling your house by yourself for everyone? No, most everyone that has bought or sold a home with a realtor or without one will tell you it is not as simple as selling your lawn mower to a neighbor. If you are a first time home buyer, you might consider using a realtor on your first purchase because the whole process can seem overwhelming. If you need to leave town to start a new job you might consider a realtor to sell it for you while you are out of town. However, if you are a move-up seller especially of the baby-boom generation who has bought and sold a number of times you can handle it on our own.

The process does not require a PHD in Real Estate (if there is such a thing)? IT IS REALLY NOT THAT HARD. Yes, you need to do a little research and devote some time to it - but it doesn't take that much time compared to using a realtor. Anyone that has sold a home will tell you the most time consuming process of selling a home is cleaning it before each showing - and that is something you will want to do regardless if you have a realtor or not!

Realtors in the United States have stayed a powerful player in the real estate market for one simple reason - the MLS. The MLS book of listings creates a hugh exposure tool for realtors. So the main problem for home owners wanting to sell their home FSBO is the limited exposure compared to the MLS.

It is a sad fact the most selling FSBO will simply stick a sign in their yard - place an ad in the paper - get very little traffic and eventually hand it over to a realtor after one month. IT DOESNT HAVE TO BE THAT WAY! With the internet today and the fact that Boulder has one of the highest percentage of high tech work force in the country, the limited exposure issue becomes much less of an issue per capita.

Boulder real estate is a natural application for the internet! Who wouldn't want to browse listings from the comfort of your own home instead of blindly letting a realtor show you houses that they think you like. Those days are over - now instead of the realtor finding the houses and setting up 10 showings for you - you can pick the houses you want to see. Other place to rent in Austin, Albuquerque, Washington DC, Fort Myers, Houston, Nashville, Norfolk, Raleigh-Durham, Portland, Tucson, Virginia Beach.

So when looking for a FSBO site to list your property, you want to first look for one that can give you maximum exposure. You want to see how much web site traffic they have, if they ranked low in the search engines it is almost certain they will give you very little exposure.

Make sure the FSBO site allows you to edit your listing yourself as many times and as often you like. This obviates the need to have to wait for the webmaster to make the change for you.

Make sure the FSBO site provides protection of the property owner's contact email - without protection spammers can easily harvest the owner's email address and start spamming them.

Some FSBO overcharge to list your property. Make sure the site doesn't charge more than $200 - if they are charging more make sure you are getting some extra services. Notice that on our site, listing your Boulder real estate property is free! We also cover other towns such as Boulder, Broomfield, Eldorado-Springs, Jamestown, Lafayette, Longmont, Louisville, Lyons, Nederland, Niwot, Superior, within Boulder County.

We are committed to providing you with the best listing service possible. Boulder-FSBO.com makes finding properties easy to find by placing them on the home page. We display homes in an appealing manner and our pages download extremely fast, even for those on a dial-up connection. Our hope is that you have a good experience selling your home yourself and tell your friends how much you saved with Boulder-FSBO.com.