[Just Susan]

Thanks for your input everyone. I really do appreciate the combined wisdom of this board. I will be away from my computer for awhile, but will check for any other opinions as I can.

I think at this point that we are going to try the Flat Fee.

We have a nice house. It is big and waterfront property on a lake...we are twenty minutes from either city downtown.

I know how to stage and I know how to sell and so do my sisters who will hold our open houses for us. Our neighbors are looking for buyers as we have offered them a healthy finders fee.

I will produce our flyers and take our pictures myself.

I would rather not do all this, but I just can't get past the amount they want for commission at a time when so much of our profit has evaporated. I think a good realtor earns their fee, but not when the fee is more than most people make in a year.

Worst case, we list with a realtor in the spring.

Wish us luck.
Susan