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What does your service cost?
Probably less than you think. We currently have a flat fee of only
$499. Your home
will stay on our WEB site until you sell it (up to 12 months).
How
long does it take to sell a home on your site?
Average selling time is 3-4 months. See our
SOLD Homes
section which lists "days on market" for homes that have sold off
our website. We do a very effective job of
getting your home wide exposure through a Visual Home
Tour on the Internet. Your home location, appearance and price
are key factors in determining how long it
will take to sell.
How do I go about pricing my home?
It is very important to price your home correctly when first putting
it on the market. We believe that the best way to do this is
through a professional appraisal. Another benefit of an appraisal
is that it gives your buyer the assurance that your home is priced correctly.
What does an appraisal cost?
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Approx $350.
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How
effective are you?
Very.
We opened our business in October, 1999. Since that time over
2,500
Birmingham area
homes listed on our WEB site have sold (several others are currently under
contract).
How
do home buyers find your site on the Internet?
Several
different ways.
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People
searching the Internet for a home. We are listed on the
major Internet search engines. Many homes listed on our site have sold
to out-of-state buyers who found the home on our WEB site. |
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Drive-by prospects.
We provide high quality yard/directional signs that encourage
prospects to visit your Internet Visual Tour. We also provide you
with
a "Take One" box and high quality Fact Sheet that refers prospects
to your WEB page. |
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Readers of the Birmingham
News. To increase their home's exposure many of our clients
place ads in the Birmingham News which reference their
WEB page. |
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Telephone inquiries. We
encourage our clients to have their prospects visit their WEB page.
We also recommend that our clients modify their answering machine
greeting to point their prospects to their Internet Visual Tour. |
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Yellow Pages.
We are listed in BellSouth's "Real" Yellow Pages. Our ad in
the Real Estate section reads:
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For Sale By Owner
www.ForSale-ByOwner.com
Visual Home Tours on the
Internet
Birmingham
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Do
you get much traffic to your WEB site?
Yes.
4,000 - 5,000 people visit our WEB site each day. Most
of our clients get hundreds of visits to their WEB page
during their first week on our site. That's like having each one of them
taking an open house tour of your home (without you having to clean
up each time)!
We have a "visitor counter" at the bottom of each of our client's WEB
pages so that they can see how many people are visiting their WEB page.
What
other benefits are there to listing our home on your site?
You schedule
appointments with only serious prospects. If potential buyers
has taken a Visual Tour before you schedule an appointment with them you
will be more assured of working with a serious buyer.
Do you have any references we could
contact?
Yes, feel free to call any of our existing clients. Their phone numbers
(and usually their names) are listed on their WEB page. Also, many of
our clients have written us telling how our service helped
them sell their homes. Click
HERE to read
their
Success Stories.
Most of our new listings are referrals from delighted clients.
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Pat and Puca, our Welsh Corgi
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Is
there anything else included for your low flat fee?
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We
walk thru your home with you and document all the key features to include
on your WEB page. |
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We provide one yard sign and one directional sign. Our
professionally designed signs are two-sided and mounted on wooden stakes. The yard sign
includes your web site listing number and your
phone number. |
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Fact Sheet and Take-One
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To
help you market your home to drive-by
traffic we
provide a home Fact Sheet with a color front photo and a
high-quality "Take-One" box
mounted on a
separate wooden stake. (The Fact Sheet is e-mailed to you for printing on
your PC at your convenience.)
CLICK HERE to view/print a sample
Fact Sheet. (You will need the latest
version of the free Adobe
Acrobat Reader in order to view this Fact Sheet.)
Click
on the Adobe logo to the left to download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader
or to download the latest version if you have trouble viewing the Fact
Sheet.
Home Warranty
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We offer a Home Warranty thru American Home Shield. This warranty
covers most home systems and appliances. The cost is as low as
$369 (Payable at closing) and covers your home while you are selling it
as well as 12 months coverage for your buyer. We provide a
no-charge "Home Warranty Included" rider for your yard sign as well as
promote it on your web page. |
Do you offer
an MLS option?
Yes,
our MLS listing costs $499. Click
HERE to get details on how it works.
You can add your flat-fee MLS listing anytime ... when you initially sign
up for our basic service or at a later date.
How do we pay for your service?
Payment for our service is due when we come to your home for the photo
shoot.
We prefer personal checks. We can take credit card payment with a
$15 processing fee.
Sounds
great. How do I get started?
Easy. Just call or e-mail Amanda in the office to schedule your photo
shoot:
Office phone number: (205) 979-1133
e-mail address:
support@forsale-byowner.com
We schedule our photo shoots Monday thru Friday at 8 AM,
10 AM, 12 PM, 2 PM, and 4 PM. The photo shoot takes about one
hour. We can normally schedule your photo
shoot within a few days of your phone call/e-mail. We will have your webpage ready for your review within 2-3
working days of your photo shoot.
We will also need to know the phone number to put
on your yard sign and your street
address.
We look forward to helping you sell your
home through a Visual Home Tour and saving you
thousands in real estate commissions!

Patrick McCaghren
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Amanda McCaghren Briscoe
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