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Old 10-19-2020, 08:09 AM
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Default Sell it yourself

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Originally Posted by JimJohnson View Post
We did ours by listing free on ZILLOW and saved $30000.00 that the villages wanted to list for us. Sales people from MLS or The Villages are their to get as much of your money as they can. The only person you should consider trusting is yourself. Research, and be both the seller and the sellers agent. When we listed, we spelled out that we would not pay any commission to any agent on our side nor on the side of the buyer. Users moving to The Villages don't need help. We did pay for Burnsed to handle all closing.
I second this. We didn't use Zillow to list, just advertised our own open house in the Daily Sun. Originally planned to run the open house for 6 days, but it sold for full price on the 2nd day. All closing details, including preparing the contract of sale, were handled by Advantage Title for a flat fee of $400.