FSBO Real Estate Blog

The following homes have open houses this weekend. Please be sure to stop by and visit.

Sunday October 26th, 2008:
3504 Thomas Street - Rosedale Terrace : 2PM - 4PM
37 Johnson Cres. Long Sault : 2PM - 4PM

That’s right - we don’t just list homes for sale - we also list homes for Rent!

Our rental package includes the following items:

• RealListings.ca “For Rent” Lawn sign
• A listing in our “Rent A Property” section, including 10 pictures.
• Lease Agreements
• Background and Reference Sheets
• We’ll also manage your listing on Kijiji and other classified sites for you

Rental Package costs: $ 149.99 + GST.

I personally put my own home up for rent, with a lawn sign, and received over 40 phone calls from interested tenants. I was able to find a quality tenant quickly and with little cost.  The traffic from the lawn sign and our website was actually higher than that from Kijiji. The combination of classifieds sites and RealListings.ca professional signage and website was a powerful tool in helping me rent my home.

If you or someone you know is looking to rent a home - consider listing with RealListings.ca

Recently I have heard some radio announcement from one of our local competitors that refers to real estate agents as “Jo Schmo” agents.

I just wanted to take a minute and state clearly for the record that RealListings.ca is not running these ads, nor do we share such a belief.

Our Philosophy:
At RealListings.ca we take a much different approach to working in the real estate industry. Our goal is to help our clients sell their homes - period.

Often times our clients are more than willing to work with buyers’ agents to help them find potential buyers and we are happy to provide advice on how to do so.  We’re also happy to point out to our clients that offering a commission to a real estate agent is a good idea if they so desire and explain to them how that works. However - if a homeowner wants to sell on their own, we provide all the necessary tools to do so and have proven to be an effective system of selling homes without the need for agents. Our 90% + success rate speaks for itself in that regard.

We don’t think agents are Jo Schmo’s - rather we think they are professionals, and we are happy to help our clients work with them if they so desire.

Congratulations, again, to our 3 most recent clients who managed to sell their homes through RealListings.ca

In 2008  over 90% of the homes listed with RealListings.ca have sold. RealListings.ca gets results. 

If you are considering listing your home for sale by owner, call us at 613-932-5718 and speak to us about how we can help.

Our services include:

• Our  Website:
  #1 on major search engines for popular real estate search terms.  The entire purpose of our site is to properly show our homes for sale. We keep the site updated with open houses and through this blog. Your home will get hundreds of visitors - and we’ll show you the results. We can also help you market your home on other websites such as Kijiji and Facebook.
• Our Professional Signs:
  RealListings.ca’s lawn sign are not gimmicks. They are clear, professionally designed and have only one message “For Sale By Owner”.  We don’t have a slogan on the sign and we don’t have our pictures or anything else to take away from the message. People know our signs and recognize that the home owner takes the sale seriously. Our directional signs are clear and help drive traffic to your open house. We also include Brochure Boxes so people can get all the information on your home - right from your front yard.
• Our Advice and Consultations:
  We are able to give you the best advice on how to sell your home For Sale By Owner. We’ve been there and done that with hundreds of clients and we’re happy to share our experiences with you. We also provide a 1 hour consultation with a professional  homestager who helps maximize your home’s appeal to buyers.
• Our Documentation:
  We provide you with everything you need to sell your home. All you need is a buyer and a Real Estate Lawyer to close the deal. Documents include Feature Sheets of your Home, Open House Forms, Legal Documents, Buyers Package and more.
• Our Reputation:
  RealListings.ca is a known entity in Real Estate in the Cornwall and SD&G. Most of our clients have been referred by someone who has sold their home through our service.  If you’re considering listing with us - we’re more than happy to have you speak to former clients first. We’ve worked hard over the years to establish a solid brand and the result is that our listings are selling.
• Our Results:
  Our homes are selling. Or more importantly - our clients’ homes are selling. Since January 1, 2008 over 90% of the homes we have listed have sold. This does not include the 3 newest homes listed last week. No “Private Sale” company can make a such a claim - except RealListings.ca.

Call us now at 613-932-5718 to see how we can help you sell your home.

If you decide to call our competitors first - simply ask them what their results are like.

90% of our homes have sold this year, and listing with us costs less!

Congratulations to the 4 RealListings.ca clients who managed to sell their homes this week.

For these clients, RealListings.ca has proven to be an effective way of marketing their homes. Our service works because we provide you with the tools to sell your home yourself. Our professional lawn signs, home staging consultation, The Homefinder advertising, traffic generated from our website, our service and advice, and all of the marketing tools we provide all proved to once again get the job done.

Things to remember:

• None of these clients paid more than $500 for our services.
• They had a RealListings.ca lawn sign on their front yard.
• They  got hundreds of visitors to their listings.
• They negotiated the sale of their property on their own and closed the agreement with a Real Estate lawyer.
• They saved the commission they would have had to pay a Real Estate Brokerage by doing the work themselves.

Testimonials
Here’s what one of the clients had to say:

Thanks for your great services – excellent value for our money.  We highly recommend your company to everyone who’s thinking of selling their home.

Congratulations to our 3 most recent homeowners to sell their properties through RealListings.ca.

What did these houses have in common?
- They each listed their home for sale with RealListings.ca.
- They each saved thousands of dollars of commission fees by selling their home privately.
- They each received hundreds of visits to their web listing on RealListings.ca
- They each paid less than $500.00 for ALL of our services
- 1 sold in 3 weeks, 1 sold in 6 weeks and 1 sold in 4 days!

Selling your home through RealListings.ca works.
Our website traffic, combined with our professional lawn signs, buyers packages and marketing materials can help you sell your home privately.  No other For Sale By Owner company can provide all of these service at such a great price. Buyers trust the RealListings.ca name and know that homeowners who list with us are serious about selling their homes.

RealListings.ca gets proven results - just ask these homeowners!

The following homes have open houses this weekend. Please be sure to stop by and visit.

Saturday June 7th, 2008:
23 Fifth Street East - Cornwall - 2-4 PM

Sunday June 8th, 2008:
23 Fifth Street East - Cornwall - 2-4 PM
19564 Summerset Acres - Summerstown - 2-4 PM
415 Baldwin Avenue - Cornwall - 2-4 PM
1422 Cumberland - Cornwall - 1-3 PM

The following homes are having Open Houses this weekend. please be sure to drop in and visit if you are an interested buyer.

19564 Summerset Acres - Summerstown Area - Open House on Sunday June 1 2-4 pm

23 Fifth Street East **New Listing** - open House Saturday May 31 2-4 pm and Sunday June 1 2-4 pm

The following homes are having open houses on Saturday May 24th or Sunday May 25th. Please be sure to stop by and view the property in person.

Saturday May 24:
23 Fifth Street East - Cornwal ON - Saturday 2-4 PM

Sunday May 25
23 Fifth Street East - Cornwall ON - Sunday 2-4 PM

29 Lennox Street - Cornwall ON - Sunday 2-4PM

How did this house sell in two weeks for only $300.00?

Simple. The owners chose to list with a RealListings.ca Silver Package and got several interested buyers to their home in a matter of days.

The homeowners in question were curious to see if their home would sell at the price they wanted, so they called us and purchased a Silver Listing. That same day we had their listing up, photography taken and a Sign on their front lawn.

They instantly received interest from potential buyers from Quebec (because our website ranks #1 on Google for popular search terms) and also had interest from potential buyers living just a few homes away. Often times your potential buyer will come from the same neighbourhood - someone looking to stay close to their current location - but in a bigger (or smaller) home.

Why not put up our RealListings.ca lawn sign and internet listing and see what types of offers you get?

In the end - this homeowner saved over $17,000* in realtor commissions and sold for full asking price in less than 14 days. Once again RealListings.ca proved to be an effective solution for a For Sale By Owner client. The clients claimed the process was almost too easy - and it is.

Would you pay $300 to save $17,000? So would we. Call us at 613-932-5718 to list your home today.

*This is based on an assumed 6% commission rate typically charged by agents and brokers.