Archive for August, 2007

Hosting Open Houses

August 20th, 2007 @ FSBO

Hosting an open house is one of the only things you may have to do on your own. Fortunately, it’s easy.
The first week the property is on the market, just host an open house Saturday or Sunday afternoon, from 1 - 3. To get it ready, [...]

Advantages of using a home appraisal

August 20th, 2007 @ FSBO

Sleep well at night knowing that your asking price is totally accurate.

Here are a few advantages of using an appraisal:
1. You will have irrefutable evidence as to how you arrived at your price. You will have in hands a written appraisal complete with pictures, measurements, and, information on your house and on comparable sales.
As a [...]

How to Set the Right Price for FSBO House

August 20th, 2007 @ FSBO

Of all the problems our FSBO will encounter, pricing their house correctly and accurately is by far the most crucial. The wrong price could cost them thousands of dollars any way you look at it.
Here’s why: A price that is “too low” will result in a “net” that is thousands less than they could have [...]

Windows House

August 20th, 2007 @ FSBO

Selling HOUSES, Buying HOMES

August 20th, 2007 @ FSBO

I googled for trends in search when selling or buying property, look what I noticed:
we sell HOUSES and buy HOMES. WHY? The possible explanation is that to minimize emotional involvement we call it a house when we sell it, and maximize emotional involvement by calling it a home when we buy it. A “home” [...]

Fizber Goes YouTube

August 17th, 2007 @ PR

Take the grand tour - without moving an inch
Miami Beach, FL August 16, 2007: FizBer Video, FizBer.com’s new, first-of-its-kind feature, gives you the grand tour of your dream house on streaming video.
What’s the point of a web site if it doesn’t tap all the mighty powers of the Internet? FizBer.com now launches FizBer [...]

Tired of waiting for slow fsbo sites?

August 14th, 2007 @ FSBO

Tired of waiting for slow fsbo sites? Use only the fast downloading resources! I’ll help you find out which sites to use exactly:
ForSaleByOwner.com Download Times

Connection Rate
Download Time

14.4K
87.65 seconds

28.8K
45.82 seconds

33.6K
39.85 seconds

56K
25.51 seconds

ISDN 128K
10.59 seconds

T1 1.44Mbps
4.57 seconds

Fizber.com Download Times

Connection Rate
Download Time

14.4K
126.19 seconds

28.8K
65.30 seconds

33.6K
56.60 seconds

56K
35.72 seconds

ISDN 128K
13.99 seconds

T1 1.44Mbps
5.23 seconds

DO NOT USE THEM - THEY ARE TOO [...]

The Best of Web 2.0 REAL ESTATE

August 9th, 2007 @ FSBO

Fizber.com - the best Web 2.0 Real Estate For-Sale-By-Owner site
WHY:
Fizber uses Real Estate-related Web 2.0 applications, software, and provides innovative Web 2.0 products and services.
1stHomeExchange.com
WHY:
1st Home Exchange provides community access to international home exchange listings. Home exchange or house swap is a vacation alternative where you allow someone else to stay in your home [...]

Stay Innovative with vFlyer and Fizber

August 9th, 2007 @ FSBO

During Inman News’ Real Estate Connect conference in San Francisco last week San Francisco-based vFlyer captured the award for Most Innovative Web Service. The company allows home sellers, agents and brokers to customize online ads, print or e-mail property fliers, send out these ads to a variety of property-search portals, and view detailed metrics on [...]

Fizber Beats MLS

August 9th, 2007 @ FSBO

Did you know that MLS listings are NOT visible to the search engines, and Fizber ones ARE?
MLS listings are limited in the exposure that they bring to you. MLS listings do not show up in the major [...]