Self-Service Checkouts Are A Disappointment....Aren't FSBOs the Same?
This analogy seems to me to be a very good one. The self-service checkouts can be very frutstrating, too.
Thank Don with a comment if you would.
I recently read that most people dislike the self-service checkout because of the number of errors they receive in trying to get out the door.
I might maintain that selling YOUR home yourself parallels that experience to some degree.
First, of all, you will have to have the correct forms no matter how you manage to get your home on the MLS.
Second, you WILL need an attorney or face the liability of a lawsuit down the road. Will you be able to sleep at night knowing that the buyer of your previous residence might send you a letter via HIS/HER attorney maintaining that you didn't disclose this or that? Or that you were negligent or worse for something else?
Do you know the anti-discrimination laws when it comes to marketing, showing and selling your home? There are very specific actions you must take, very specific actions you are forbidden to take, and do you really want to field phone calls at 10 p.m. at night from unqualified buyers, real estate agents, and others who now know that you are selling a property?
Do you feel comfortable negotiating your price with an experienced realtor?
Do you know what to do if the appraisal comes in low, the inspection is an atrocity, or the buyers flake without earnest money for your time and trouble and after taking your property off the market for probably weeks?
Self-service checkouts with multiple errors on the head of lettuce I am trying to purchase look pretty good by comparison to those headaches.
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