Did you catch this one in Saturday’s Seattle Times? For sale by owner? It’s no primrose path.
Sometimes selling your own home is easy, especially in a hot market like Seattle. Sometimes it’s tough. Either way, it’s work.
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While FSBOs might look great on the surface, industry experts and those who sold their own homes agree that homeowners need to consider plenty of caveats and potential pitfalls when they think about selling without an agent."When people start to pull back the covers on everything involved in selling their own home, they may decide that hiring a professional real-estate agent is the best path after all," said Brett Clifton, co-owner of Personal Real Estate Support Services in Seattle, which provides consumer real-estate information and links buyers with agents.
So you have the Times propping up the notion that real estate in Seattle is hot, HOT, HOT, while simultaneously actively discouraging people from trying to sell homes without a real estate agent—which by the way should be much easier in a red hot market, right?
Just how much advertising revenue does the Seattle Times receive from real estate interests, anyway?
(Terence Finan, Seattle Times, 05.06.2006)