You DON'T need a Realtor to sell your property in the  Real Estate Market . NO other real estate site will tell you but its true.

Look at it:

1. The market has a huge inventory shortage

2. Interest Rates are getting lower

3. The fires of late last year burned 250,000 houses, thus adding to the shortage.



With Agents scouring the market for properties and the area and  prices jumping  Orland Park NEEDS your house!

If you list a property you will get several offers in days STRICTLY off of putting your property in the MLS (Multiple Listing Service).



So what do you do?

Well.. put it in the MLS of course! The catch? is the MLS is only available through a realtor.

AHA! See how they get you?

So what about the "help you sell" or "self sell", THEY can list it for you. Well they want a commission of 2-3%. They supply you with fliers, a sign and will oversee the deal. Normally Real Estate agents would "snub" those type of listings and not show them to their clients (something they never tell you).

However, with the shortage of inventory they HAVE to show them because the average realtor (see this report) didn't prepare for this type of market and is stuck between their clients going to a new home (which they don't get a commission) or surrounding areas where they have a disadvantage.



So, JUST doing the basic things;

1. Get your property ready to sell

2.Get it listed in the MLS

3.The perfect flyer that shows your property and the easy financing that makes it easier to buy. These things will make it super easy doing it yourself.

Sounds easy right? The "Help U Sell" or "For Sale by Owner" companies would convince you that its just that easy for everyone. Well.....There ARE a few things that no one tells you that you should know.

 

With this same client he experienced a team of what we call predators. They "prey" on your inexperience as a self seller and try to get you to take a lower price. Here is one example (more are here as they come to us)

While the seller abovementioned was showing his Sun City home, they get a call from a Mr. William "Bill" Strom from Ga. and says he is looking for something for himself because he is moving back to California and offers $170K over the phone and says he will be in town soon "to look at it." However, a man (Mr. D Peruch of Sun City) shows up the next day to look at it saying he is looking on behalf of a friend. (Mr. William "Bill" Strom of Georgia).

In the midst of this we call the list of people the seller has shown the home to and because the seller is a family friend we called the list of people that looked at his house to see if his "perspective" was getting in the way.

When we got to talking with Mr. William "Bill" Strom he seemed sincere and forthright. "I have no problem paying a fair price" he said. "I'm a fair person and am looking for a fair deal." He said he would be out in 10 or so days (where he told the seller he would be out in 3 days)

Furthermore, after I got him to admit that he indeed offered $170K I told him that he was close to a deal. I explained the cheapest house in the area is $157K and THAT property was a 2 br and half the square feet. I also told him an appraisal was almost done and it will come in around $185k and with that he reconfirmed "if its what you say I have no problem paying what's fair and will pay cash and have it fund in 7 days."

Well the next day Mr. Peruch shows up at the sellers home to ask questions about why they were selling and what they owed on their property (see this report of what's relevant to answer when selling and what questions a predator will ask that you don't need to answer ) then after he leaves Mr. Strom calls and gives them a NEW offer of $145K, EXACTLY what Dan Peruch found out the sellers owed., MUCH lower than the $170k offer he first made and 35K lower than what it sold for).

Needless to say they were temporarily crushed and if they had not had an offer considerably higher right it would have slighted their spirit in pursuing a better offer, which is exactly what they were hoping.

Once we exposed them Mr. D Peruch went back to the sellers home to threaten bodily harm to us when we brought their tactics to light and found the sellers the sales price they should have gotten if Mr. Strom's words were genuine.

Most realtors can sniff out these types and shelter you from the highs and lows of these deceptive practices.