I just received an email this morning from a potential client that had contacted me earlier in the year about the value of his home and he wanted to let me know he had decided to sell it himself. He asked if I knew of any real estate companies that served only to put the home on the MLS and functioned to help FSBOs.
While I normally have a sinking feeling when I hear that a listing has gone to another company or realtor.....I just didn't have that feeling this time. Why? While I wish him the best, I'm fairly confident that I'll be hearing from them again in the not too distant future. There are certain times and markets in which selling a home yourself may seem to make sense but this truly isn't one of them. I realize that we, as Realtors, spend a great deal of time justifying our commissions and for some of us we earn our money and some probably don't (I've worked with a few of them lately) but I honestly believe that I, and other professional realtors, bring quite a bit to the table. Much of what we do is behind the scenes and if you're marketing the property to the fullest extent there is continual work to be done, but somehow many sellers out there still think that you simply put a sign in the ground and the buyers will line up. Hopefully my potential client will determine that selling a home yourself just isn't quite as easy as some would lead him to believe.
Keith Kyle is a licensed Realtor and e-Pro with South Bay Brokers in Manhattan Beach. He serves his clients throughout the South Bay and his websites KeithKyleHomes.com and FindYourSouthBayHome.com offer the most comprehensive real estate websites in the South Bay with free MLS access, current home listings, open houses, recent home sales information and more. Keith can be reached at 310-251-2344 or by email at info@KeithKyleHomes.com
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