The TRUTH About the Real Estate Sales Process

The Smiths want to list their $600,000.00 home with a traditional full service agency, so they invite a local real estate agent to come over to explain the process of selling a home to them.

The real estate agent explains that the cost to sell the home with full service will be approximately 7% on the 1st $100,000.00 and 3% on the balance of the sale price.

In this case, with a selling price of $600,000.00, the fee paid by the seller will be around $22,000.00 plus tax, or approximately $11,000.00 plus tax paid out to each agent involved when/if it sells.

The sellers agree, and the listing agent secures the listing after explaining the scary pitfalls of selling a property privately, and then goes through the seemingly complicated MLS® System paperwork with the seller(s), explaining the mysterious and apparently complex process of selling a home.

In securing your listing, the real estate agent is now eligible to receive around $11,000.00 of the equity of your home when the buyer(s) and their buyer agent show up and complete the sale. The other agent will take the other $11,000.00 for a total of $22,000 plus tax.

During this visit, many agents will lay the groundwork for what the role of the real estate agent will be during the sale of the property. They will also explain what the expectations of the "seller(s)" are during the sale of the property.

The role of the listing agent is to help facilitate the interaction between the buyer agents who are making inquiries about your property, and you, the seller. This is also when the actual work of selling the home kicks into high gear for the seller, meanwhile your agent is waiting for a buyer to show up.

At this point, your real estate agent is waiting for inquiries from buyer's agents - any buyer's agent - and you are waiting for a call from your agent to let you know that there "may" be a buyer's agent bringing over some people at say, 3:30pm tomorrow as an example.

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With For Sale By Owner, you are present when the buyers come over, even if they are coming with a buyer's agent representing them. You don't have to leave your home. In fact, 90+% of our customers insist on staying at the property during every showing.

Here is a typical scenario:

The Thompson's are working with a buyer's agent and they have a question about a listing they found on REALTOR.ca.

They call their agent and they ask them the question.

The buyer's agent seldom has the answer to a question about a property they know very little about, so they will then call the listing real estate agent and ask them the question on behalf of the buyers.

The listing real estate agent will then call the seller and ask them the question, or they will leave a voicemail if they don't catch them. Some of the more advanced agents might even text or email the seller the question.

At some point, whether it's right away, several hours later, or even the next day, the answer to the question(s) is given to the listing agent.

The listing agent will then call the buyer's agent and give them the answer to the question, or they will leave a voicemail if they don't catch them. Some of the more advanced agents might even text or email the buyer's agent the answer.

The buyer's agent will then call the buyer(s) and give them the answer to the question, or they will leave a voicemail if they don't catch them. Some of the more advanced agents might even text or email the buyer the answer.

In the scenarios discussed above, if at any time there are messages left by voicemail, there is also a call back to whoever left the message.

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This is a simple illustration of "JUST ONE QUESTION" being asked about the property you have put in the hands of the professionals to sell for you. And, it gets even worse from here... this is often just the beginning.

There will typically be several buyers with many questions about your property. Many of those questions will NOT result in the sale of the property - right up until the day that the coveted buyer shows up. If you are lucky, that could happen quick - and if not, it may take weeks or months.

When you list your property with For Sale By Owner, the calls & buyer inquiries come directly to you, and your answers are not being filtered by 2 additional people who are acting as a conduit between you and the buyer. The main takeaway here is that the seller is doing most of the work to sell the home, and the agents are often slowing the process down.

So, the question becomes - does it make sense for you to insert 2 extra people into the process of selling of your home, AND pay them thousands of dollars each while they're at it?

The reality is that most agents know very little about the property, and you will be doing a large percentage of the work selling it regardless. So why not just take the bull by the horns and sell it yourself right off the bat?

This is the main reason that property owners are now looking for a better, faster, and more streamlined way to sell their home. Technology also plays a vital role, BUT, saving tens of thousands of dollars on the sale of the home remains at the VERY TOP of the list for most sellers.

REMEMBER - nobody knows your home better than you do!

Enter, For Sale By Owner Inc. - Canada's True Commission-Free For Sale By Owner Selling System!
For Sale By Owner is Canada's original FSBO service and was launched in Edmonton in the spring of 1997.

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