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Marc,
First let me apologize for the misspelling of your name. my son-in-law's name is Mark. Secondly, I'm going to have to assume one of two things. One I just caught you on a bad day or second you are Dr. Jekyll on Trulia, and Mr. Hyde on Zillow. I always enjoyed your posts over there and have given a thumbs up on many occasions. However, my days over there are about over. I guess since I've had good answers for those criticizing the viability of FSBO's, and a few have decided to flag anything the least bit off the wall that I post. I even got flagged for posting something as :
"I'll start the bidding at a hundred bucks and waive the inspection."
This was after someone placed an ad against the guidelines asking "Anybody want to buy my house?"
"Now, now, and now! Seriously now! "
This was when the question was "When is the best time to put your house up for sale? In the spring? What month?" If you notice, there were three questions with three now responses, and one last one to reinforce the previous three.
"Or maybe right after the Steelers get their butts kicked."
Okay, so I was wrong. However, this was in reference to RE business picking up after the Super Bowl.
What I'm saying in so many words is that I hope you were just having a bad day. but if this is where you come to take the gloves off, I'll be here. :)
"Starting with the lack of disclosure, the penchant FSBO's have for overpricing, lying about defects, the whole nine yards."
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As if agents never encourage or condone lack of disclosure. Mine didn't want to put disclosure info out regarding a cracked concrete garage floor or cracked fireplace insert refractories. I eventually ran some refractories down and replaced them before going FSBO. I did disclose the garage floor, which was obvious. I also disclosed a water seepage problem at one corner of the garage door when a wind driven rain from the east would occur. He didn't want to disclose that either. At that point I got the impression that anything that would make his job harder, he wasn't interested in regardless of the consequences. Oh yeah, I know he's the only one out there like that.
C'mon professor Mark. I wanna learn more. Pleese. Pretty pleeese.
Rockin,
There are anecdotal success stories for going the FSBO route. It sounds like you lucked out and found a stupid buyer. That was great for you! That situation will become increasingly rare as the Internet continues to educate buyers to cut FSBO offers by 5-6%. It will not be as easy to find a sucker next time.
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