FSBO BLOG

Ok, we have a winner.  Dahlia of North Pole, AK successfully guessed that it took me 23 takes to shoot the intro portion of my First video.  So far the feedback from the 2^nd video has been that it was much better, so at least I am improving. 

Since Dahlia’s listing is current “Under Contract” she will not be needing the Virtual tour.  I have decided to simply reimburse her for her Gold Package Listing ($99.95) for her participation and for winning my first ever contest. 

Since I can’t help to promote her listing (because it is Sold), I have asked if she was willing to answer a few questions for me regarding her experience with FSBO.com.  I have in no way modified her answers:

1. Did your buyer find you on FSBO.com, if so, by phone or email?

Our buyer is our friend from church, but we were contacted a lot this spring from potential buyers via the fobs website.

2. What other methods of advertising did you use: Other websites, newspaper, word of mouth, etc…?

We used (unsuccessfully) the newspaper on Sundays, and we posted flyers at the air force and army bases, as well as posted our house on ahrn.com (a military housing service) and also on baseforsale.com (a free classified website for the military).  Here in North Pole, AK, we are surrounded to the north and south by military, and they were our target market.  The other websites and flyers always had our FSBO.com listing, so the other forms of marketing always brought them to our website on FSBO.com
 

3. How long was your property on FSBO.com before going under contract?

We posted it in July, which, is the tail-end of house-hunting season here in Alaska (winter will be setting in and families usually don’t want to move in freezing, snowy weather) so we were late in doing that, but by February, we had an accepted offer!

4. Briefly describe your experience with FSBO.com, from the sign up process, uploading photos (did you do it yourself), receiving your supplies via UPS, leads received, etc…

It was the best site that we found for the “bang for our buck”.  It was very simple to make our site - we started uploading photos and had it going in probably less than an hour!  We received our sign and flyers very quickly (thank you UPS!).  We were very pleased with the customer service:  we posted a photo of our house just to get one on the site, but it wasn’t the “keeper” photo.  We had asked for our flyers to not be printed until we got an acceptable photo of our house on the site and because they had already been printed, we received another set of flyers with the correct photo on them!  Thank you!!  We will definitely use FSBO.com again - we saved so much by NOT using a realtor!  Great idea and keep up the excellent work!!

Thanks again for everyone who participated, and as promised, I will be sending all of you a consolation prize via email shortly. 

Mike Malkasian

Tags: For Sale By Owner, FSBO, Real Estate, SOLD

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