Has anyone bought and/or sold a home w/o a realtor?

[astroglide]

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I saved about $40,000 in commisions on my last purchase. if you are selling yourself, you might be able to pocket that money.

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do you live in a 1.5 million dollar plus house? around here total commissions are around 6 percent, buyers agents get half of that. and on expensive stuff the commissions get negotiated down a lot.

[snakehead]

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o you live in a 1.5 million dollar plus house? around here total commissions are around 6 percent, buyers agents get half of that. and on expensive stuff the commissions get negotiated down a lot.


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around here, 1.5 doesn't buy much.

[benfranklin]

I sold mine using a flat-rate realtor. They gave me the "For Sale" and "Open House" signs, put the house in their newspaper ads, and did all the closing and paperwork. They don't do any showings or open houses. Cost me a couple thousand.

[peachy]

ull save money doing it...just get example paper work and draw from that and have someone look over it for u

[Raiser]

Thanks everyone.

I think we will do this ourselves. We have purchased a house before, but this is our first sell. I think that my wife is capable of doing it and she is a stay at home mom, so this will actually be a really good job/project for her. She often complains about not having any adults to talk to [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

We know of a good lawyer in the area that has been used by a friend of ours, so we should be okay.

Thanks again.

[knifeandfork]

most sates wont allow/frown on this as too many people got taken advantage of. im glad it worked out for your parents though.