Real Estate Private Sale

Have you got the Real Estate For sale By Owner blues?

When people are suffering from the Real Estate For sale By Owner  blues they really aren't.

What they are suffering from is actually a case of the house sale blues and that's quite a different animal. The cause is something quite diferent from what it feels like.

People tend to get dejected when their house doesn't sell immediately. It's human nature and the upheaval that people go through when first listing their home for sale leads to a common roller coaster effect on their emotions.

Their minds are already focusing on where they are going next, new schools, new shops, new friends,new activities and sudenly things don't instantly materialise.

This doesn't mean that it's because you are doing a private sale real estate transaction as opposed to using an agent, so don't confuse the issue. Houses sit around for a long time with agents and house can sit around a long time with private sellers also. It's just as accurate to restate things this way - some houses with real estate agents get snapped up before they even hit the open market and some private sellers achieve sales higher than the price they listed at. Neither thing in isolation proves anything.

Both positions are true, both are correct. What isn't true is the extrapolation people make based on their own single experience of selling either way. That's why I find it so ironic that sellers leave agents and also come to agents for the very same root reason and that is because they have failed to sell their house either by themselves or with a real estate agent, as the case may be.

So don't fall into this trap. Understand that if a house doesn't sell its almost always about just two things, market exposure and price.

Both of these things need not be related to whether a person is undertaking their own sale or not.