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I wanted to see what others there thought of using Craigslist for real estate listings.
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10 Comments on Craigslist - Yeah or Nay? What has been your experience?
Donna, I always post my listings on craigslist and also on backpage.com. It really does increase the number of visits to your website and makes your sellers feel like you are doing something extra.
Donna,
I hear some folks do have great results. I had one of my listings get scammed right in the middle of an offer. It added a lot of undue stress both on me and my sellers. I decided since then to make it an option to my sellers....they have all decided not to.
I just wrote a post on this a couple of days ago with the remedy one needs to take if that happens. It is really frustrating.
I don't mean to put you off to it...just let you know my experiences...
I have gotten mainly spam from my use of craigslist and a couple of interested sellers that typically did not want to hear what the actual market was for their property. I do continue to use it on a semi regular basis as I have noticed a huge jump in traffic on my website after posting. Makes for good ammunition when the broker starts considering cutting out the payment to the website when I can point out that I am seeing several hundred visits to my site per month.
Sure is aggravating though to have to weed through all the spam.
I have to check to see if it does drive traffice to my site - that is a good point. I was looking at it single sided.
Thanks for that reminder!
Unfortanately i think there are too many scams that have tainted it.
Craigslist drives traffic to the website. It also create google juice for individual listings. It is great for rentals.
I have had numerous inquiries through Craig's List and have obtained clients from it. You will get scammers replying periodically, but you can pick up on them very easily, as their responses are very generic. It is just like an open house, they may not buy that property you are representing, but you may sell them something else. Best wishes.
Craigslist isnt bad but you get a lot of responses from people who are not serious about buying.
All we have had is negative results with the Nigerian scammers getting thousands of dollars from people that can least afford to get scammed. Staying away from Craigslist.
I have picked up buyers from Craigslist but I have not sold a house directly from Craigslist. Sellers are starting to expect to see their houses on Craigslist though.
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