Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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You obviously did not read the post to which I was responding wherein an unlicensed individual was advertising charging $1,500 for brokerage services.
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Read Post No. 22. If you pay someone to advertise and negotiate the sale, then how is that a FSBO? Also, as a buyer, I wouldn't feel comfortable if a non-attorney and unlicensed person prepared the contract and conducted the closing without a title company. If something goes wrong, who is responsible? I think that both the seller and the buyer are better served by using a licensed title company to handle the contracting and the closing.
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[QUOTE=retiredguy123;2079551]Read Post No. 22. If you pay someone to advertise and negotiate the sale, then how is that a FSBO? Also, as a buyer, I wouldn't feel comfortable if a non-attorney and unlicensed person prepared the contract and conducted the closing without a title company. If something goes wrong, who is responsible? I think that both the seller and the buyer are better served by using a licensed title company to handle the contracting and the closing.
I've been in the mortgage biz for many years. Using a realtor does 2 things; it creates a larger selling arena, and it takes a lot of "work" away from you. If neither of these two things are important, and especially in this market, by all means do a fsbo. Also, don't discount using an outside realtor, instead of a villages sales person. If you are shopping for a title company to handle it all for you, check out State Title. In fact, you can tell them you know me, Bruce Hancock, and they may help you out a bit. |
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Well over 40 years ago, my mother-in-law sold their house and pocketed a beautiful new Cadillac as a difference they would have had to pay a real estate agent. This is a fantastic market. My only suggestion is have someone take great photos and pay them a few hundred bucks and also go to several real estate sites to see what the market is for your square footage and your particular geographic area realtor.com and zillow.com but mostly use your common sense and price it at the right price that you're not going to have to wait months in other words don't overprice it by $50,000
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Also, don't discount using an outside realtor, instead of a villages sales person.
[/QUOTE] I've heard that the independent real estate folks outside TV are more open to a smaller fee...worth a try |
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Just curious....how many of you used 1 or 2 (MLS/VLS) Realtor(s) when you bought your home? How much did you pay them to help you find a home? If you bought by owner was that the only home you looked at?
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I can't speak for how the sale of real estate works in The Villages but having just sold my R.I. home of 32 years I am glad I had an agent and a good one at that.
Our home was listed on MLS at 8 am a week ago Wednesday with a scheduled open house on the Sunday that followed. Our agent called us 2 hours after the listing went up to inform us he had received 9 calls from agents wanting to bring over very interested pre-qualified clients that day. We said fine, headed out of the house and left the rest to our agent who scheduled all 9 appointments in 15 minute intervals. When we returned 3 hours later our agent informed us 3 strong offers came in which we reviewed closely together. Due to the strength of those offers my agent contacted the 3 agents and told them by 6 pm the following day their clients were to give their final and best offers. Those 3 best and final offers came in to be nearly identical all $36k over asking. My agent then called the 3 agents and told them the offers were almost identical and they needed to do a little better if their clients really wanted the house. An hour or so later two offers came back $7,500 higher, and the 3rd offer the one we accepted came back that they would go $7,500K above the highest offer up to $650K, they were putting down $100K which was $50K higher than the other 2, waived the inspection which the others did not, and if the appraisal came in lower than the offer price they would make up the difference out of their pocket not ours which that was also not noted in the other offers. After all was said and done we sold our home $50K over asking with a hard to beat contract and our closing is scheduled for 4/29/22. That $50K above asking covered the money we spent doing upgrades getting our house sell ready as well as the agent's commission, and we really think looking at the comps in our area, had we not not done the upgrades and had an agent to handle the sale we would have likely ended up selling our home for $100K less than we did. So after all was said and done I believe we did come out $50K ahead of the game. Tough decision to make using an agent vs doing a FSBO. Wish you the best of luck in whatever method you choose selling your home. |
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Real Estate Broker here. No, in Florida a seller’s disclosure is not required, but you should do one anyway because it reduces liability. Sellers are required to disclose any material defects that cannot be easily seen. There was a case of a cracked chimney that the seller knew of but didn’t disclose. The seller was found liable in court. Also, if you are selling yourself you may want to contact a brokerage that does a flat fee listing so your property shows up in the mls. That service usually runs around $500. Local real estate agents will bring their buyers. You can offer those agents 1 or 2 percent for their efforts. They will be glad for that in this market. They will also be glad to help you with the selling process. There’s this misconception that all real estate agents do is drive folks around and open doors. Yes, we do that, (there’s a lot of work that goes into settings up those showings). But the real work begins when a house is under contract. Getting sellers to the closing table isn’t easy. Deadline must be met, buyers get cold feet, accept the wrong offer and the deal will fall through. We just make it look easy to spare our buyers and sellers the stress. It’s hard work, but there’s nothing better than helping someone into a new home.
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Care to back that up with some facts, rather than paint 100's of people with that broad brush?
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LOL, we were told that we were in the most desirable neighborhood. Don’t Jack the price of your home up to much just because someone thinks your neighborhood is where everyone want to move to.
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