Real Estate Listings on Craig's List

I have had good results with CL.  You can open up a free account and keep track of your listings easily by logging in.  Click on the little "my account" button on the upper left side of the screen and follow the instructions.  It's super easy to repost listings and edit prices, descriptions, etc.

Congrats on the sale, but I wouldn't be ready to assume that all my listings will sell within the next week... Some of ours are there, but we haven't yet confirmed a sale.

I have not received any lead from Craigs list yet. I have one question, are we allowed to ask for referral at the end of the post or in the signature. ? I have seen many do it. I had done that once when i started and someone called me and said it is considered spam and that when we post our contact information is automativcally posted. But the I read a few posts that say for search engines and localism we should have a call to action.

Hi Lisa

I love Craigslist. Whenever I post I can see click throughs to my web site about 6 or 7 a day until the ad gets to far down the list. You can install a link to your personal web site just by adding the http:// thing.

Lisa, I first learned about Craigslist a couple of years ago from a client.  He kept coming to me saying I want to see such and such house that I saw on Craigslist.  I had no idea what Craigslist was so I checked it out.  Now, I post all of my listings on Craigslist, using Vflyer to make it stand out from the pure text listings.  When I tell my clients that their home will be on Craigslist, they say thank you and say that they were going to ask about that.  Also, when I've held open houses, more people come from the Craigslist ad than from any newspaper advertisement.

Craigslist success, CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!

Nice Visuals on the post by the way... :-) Nice post

Craigslist is a great public resource.  One of our broker clients hired a new admin person that contacted him from Craigslist after just a couple of days on the site.  He had previously tried tradition media for several weeks.

I havent received any leads yet form craigslist either but I am willing to give it some time. Last time I checked our area wsnt on there either but I did out my listing in the Miami area. I was hoping for a little more activity. I am still new to the site so I am trying to figure it all out.

Thanks for all the info. Makes me want to go and really get on it!

Lisa -

I am so happy for you with your success on CraigsList!  I also post to Craigslist however, as some of the others have said, I also have yet to receive a call.  I still post and will continue to do so.  It is a very popular public site.

All the best to you,

Joy

Congratulations! It's always an advantage to become one of the first adopters in a market.

Lisa, I've had great results from CraigsList, it really does work!

Lisa,

What do you mean by "CraigsList may be an old-school system"? Just because it looks this way?  I think that the looks are deceiving. The computer genius, who first showed me Craig's List long ago, told me that this was done on purpose, the guys could have put all conceivable bells and whistles, but they wanted it to be just Craig's list. This look is it's signature.

He also warned me that before doing anything on Craig's List we first needed to read the prosts and get the feel of them if we did not want to be blatantly rejected.

Of course, we have our own agenda, but respecting the media format and adjust to their module would not harm.

We did not work with listings for sale yet, but were doing pretty well with rentals.

Did you every try eBay? I am curious about it, but never tried.

Lisa,  Thanks for letting us know about your success with putting a listing on Craig's List.  I'll try this with my newest listing.

DOS feel, that's well said. However that's how they wanted it. This is their way to be different, and they have succeeded.