FSBO: 7 Tips For Selling Your Home Yourself

If you follow along with DIY blog Young House Love, you'll know that they have decided to move and are selling their home themselves.

After three years of renovations, decoration, tweaks, and even adding a baby to the mix, they're saying sayonara to their first homestead and moving on to something bigger and ready for their brand of magic.

Ever the do-it-yourselfers, The Youngsters took on the monumental task of selling their home themselves. And they've compiled a list of tips on how they managed to list, market, and accept an offer on their home without a realtor, which we're going to share with you.

Here's their basic tips:

1) Pick the right asking price.
2) Clean and declutter your house within an inch of its life.
3) Market the heck out of it.

4) Learn how to show the home in a way that appeals to buyers.
5) Make a strong argument for why your house is worth buying.
6) Figure out what to do if you get an offer.
7) Rest assured that realtors won't boycott a FSBO house.

For more of their reasoning and methods, click the link below to visit their blog.

Do you have any advice for selling your home yourself? Let us know in the comments!

Photo: Casey Serin

Tabatha Muntzinger | Comments () |

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These tips can helpful for many homeowners to sell their home themselves. It can also save their money which they spend behind agent. You can also do one thing that you can tell your friends and family member that you want to sell your home, they can also be a good source of potential buyers.

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Selling your home yourself might be little bit difficult if you don't do it before. But above tips seems very helpful for sellers who want to sell home themselves. Advertisement of your is another good way to sell your home, many people spend good time on internet so you can put some photo and detail about your home and this can be a good source of buyers.

Rebecca Stratton

Remember to keep it clean. Make sure the house is organized and presentable, as clutter can be a major deal-breaker to many. It can be interpreted as a lack of care for common maintenance, for instance. As much as possible, make sure that the house is empty to show cleanliness and the potential of a home that feels brand new.

Randy Robinson

It's best to make a good first impression. You need to interest potential buyers, after all. Give your home that oomph that can impress potential buyers, but be realistic. Don't aim for needless home projects that would cost you money without increasing the value of your home in return.

Avril Copperfield

Well, if you plan to sell your house in the future, you would do well to invest in landscaping and some renovations. These two can help improve the aesthetic quality of your home, thus improving its value once placed in the market.

Agata Renfrew

Hmm, I'm sorry that I couldn't give any advice right now. I'm actually searching home selling tips for me to share those with my friend who's planning to sell hers. My ideas with these are kinda little for now. I'm just wondering what would be the best argument to say that a house is worth buying. It surely depends on the house itself and memories within it, right? But, generally speaking, what would be the best? Thanks!

Jones Gina26

Fabulous and Inspiring! I am sure DIY enthusiasts would love to follow on the same lines. I'd like to emphasize here on the importance of remodeling and touching up your home before a sale and highlight the strong points of the house to buyers for a more profitable deal.