Friday, August 31, 2007

DOH! moment for a FSBO'er

So I had my first DOH! situation of this whole process For Sale By Owner-Online Advertising project. I just received confirmation that my listing has been posted to the MLS and should go live on Realtor.com in the next 10 days or so. Actually it is great news, but as I was searching for more listing services, I stumbled upon IggysHouse.com that offers a Free MLS listing. I'm sorry, what? a Free MLS listing? I already paid for mine so there is really nothing in this for me to promote them, but I figured that it would be good to share the wealth with anyone else that is doing FSBO and looking to cut costs. IggysHouse is backed by BuySideRealty that gives up to 75% commission rebates back to the buyer that are earned from the seller. Both sites look like they are ready to turn the real estate industry on its ear, so I wasn't sure why I hadn't heard of either before, but please comment and let me know if you use either and have success with them. I am very interested to find out how it works.

Oh, I found out something else about Google Base, it turns our your free listing on Infotube.net and your paid listing at ForSaleByOwner.com are automatically uploaded each day to Google Base, this saves you the hassle of re-uploading every 10 days. Now if someone knows how to do this with Craigslist too I will be set.

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