When shopping for a house, what is your go-to website?
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Anonymous
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We are contemplating FSBO and wondering if people even look on craigslist anymore with all the junk that seems to be on there. Even in the real estate "by owner" there is a lot of spam.
Do you prefer Trulia, Zillow, Redfin or other? Trying to figure out the best places to list and where to spend our advertising money.... i.e Prince of Petworth, Post..etc. |
Anonymous
| I find Redfin to be the most useful. I also like franklymls, but not as much as Redfin. |
Anonymous
| Redfin to search, franklymls to view, dc property tax office if I'm serious about it. |
Anonymous
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You need to do something that gets your house on the MLS circuit. I use different things depending on the day -- sometimes Redfin, sometimes Realtor.com. Most people are looking on line somehow, so you need to have your home accessible to the big real estate engines. Once it's in the MLS service, people can use their app/website of choice to look.
Also, please have some decent pictures. |
Anonymous
You will not get on Redfin, Trulia, FranklyMLS, realtor.com or any other site like it if you FSBO. I think you can modify your Zillow listing yourself to make it for sale. |
Anonymous
Are Iphone pictures out of the question? |
Anonymous
what if you pay the extra to list on MLS through FSBO? Would it get on those automatically or do you have to list each site individually? |
Anonymous
| I used sawbuck.com to buy, and continue to use it to track my local listings. I don't know if you can get listed on there FSBO, but it's possible they are a better deal than a traditional agent. |
Anonymous
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Redfin.com hands down. Great for putting comps together.
FSBO show up there too, in purple. |
Anonymous
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Sawbuck is a referral brokerage. You sign up, they send you to another agent and take a 30% cut.
C'Mon people. |
Anonymous
| Trulia app and Frankly MLS for the awesome school map feature. |
Anonymous
I'm the person who mentioned sawbuck -- I don't grasp your comment. When I bought, they were the better deal (credit toward closing) and the agent was no worse than any others I'd met with. I don't care who gets paid what behind the scenes, so long as it works out okay for me. I did not get my mortgage through them, because there was a better rate available elsewhere. That said, I've never sold with sawbuck. All I can tell OP is that I really like the sawbuck website for house searches and tracking neighborhoods. That was the question, right? |
Anonymous
| Redfin is my site. Sawbuck is #2. |
Anonymous
You need to get on the MLS. There are places that will do this for $500 or so. I don't know which ones, but I used them about six years ago to sell a house, and all worked well. Redfin will list your house at a discount, but the last time I looked it wasn't a great discount. If you are in a hot market, put a sign out front and an ad in the local paper with a link to photos of your house. You'll find a buyer in no time as long as you price it right. If you are trying to keep the entire realtor's fee to yourself, you may have a hard time selling FSBO. It has to be priced lower than similar listings, so that way you split the fee with your buyer. Both of you win. Good luck, OP. I think real estate brokers will disappear one day. Everyone shops on the internet now, so I fail to understand the reason realtors are paid such such huge fees to do relatively little work. |
Anonymous
| Redfin has the school search feature now too. |