Our Home is Now Listed!
Dustin on 06 17, 2006
And despite the fact that we may not have Ardell’s magic open house touch, we are showing it on Sunday between 12 and 3PM as described in the open house listing on Trumba.
Update:
I also created an adword campaign around our home. If you see the following ad while surfing the web, don’t click on it because it costs me money and just takes you to this blog post! 
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Funny side note… I decided to try out Google’s option to target ads at specific websites and noticed that Zillow was on the list for real estate related sites. However, in order to see the ad for my home on Zillow, I had to disable the one-two punch of Adblock and Filter.G on my Firefox browser. By disabling these two extensions, so many websites that I visit on a regular basis looked so much uglier! It was like traveling the web naked! It you’re not using the firefox browser with these two extensions, then you are almost definitely surfing a web that looks much more annoying than mine!
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Well it looks like the TV’s gone, so you won’t be watching a ballgame? And the best Open House is the first Sunday after it is listed, and the Second Sunday. Back to back Opens, if it is still available by the next weekend. Sometimes the 2nd one is better than the first.
But an Open Sunday Rider on and leave it ALL WEEK.
My daughter had an emergency yesterday, so I jumped on a plane to L.A. I’m in Sherman Oaks, or I’d stop by.
[...] 1. Posted their home in their blog 2. Linked to their home on Zillow.com that includes the Zestimate of their house 3. Linked to their home on Redfin.com 4. Posted their home on Craigslist.com 5. Posted their home on Google Base [...]
I saw it on the NWMLS and thought it was cute before I saw it here and read of the listing. It would be cool to be able to track it and see where the most interest comes from. The MLS has an automatic counter on your listing, so that’s easy. Pay-per-clicks should be apparent if it’s accurate and they’re charging you correctly. I’ve got a counter on each individual listing on Seattle Dream Homes. You want me to list it there, just to see how many clicks & interest you can get? When I do an ad on Craigslist, I add a link to my listing on SDH and get an instant count on how many clicks I get that way. Can you do that with your website too? Wondering why you didn’t advertise your Open House in the Sunday Times….. Do you really think the newspaper is obsolete? I mean, I’ve heard the talk too, but I still seem to get most of my Open House visitors that way….. No point in rushing it to the grave. What would I read at the Pancake Corral on Sunday mornings?
Anyway, I hope you can share the details of your sale with us. It would be interesting to track where your buyer comes from.
Good luck!
Marlow,
I’d definitely like to dive into describing the process of selling our home, although I think it would be twice as interesting if you were writing about the process of helping buyer’s to purchase the house!
You see how much work is involved to go FSBO on the internet. Now it’s one thing if you know the ropes like you do Dustin but for those who don’t this is why you should ALWAYS use a real estate professional if you want to market your property ONLINE….they know the ropes.
Thanks Dustin for proving a point to your readers.
PS AS you may know, I am not a fan of Zillow. vastly overrrated as a valuation tool, over-hyped, old method in new clothes..outrageous analogy to kelley blue book to create legitimacy …dont get me started …But I am curious if & how you measure the accuracy of zillow—did you perhaps use a real person? Why would that be?
Dustin,
The listing Detail has been viewed 47 times on our over 200 agent websites that use the NWMLS data.
As of 8:00 pm on the June 19th.
let’s see Allen— 47 divided by 200… umm? over how long a period? Is this good news or bad? just curious
I have a wierd system I use that seems to work. 100 hits equals a sale. Some listings take two days to get 100 hits. Some 60 days. If you don’t have an offer by the time the listing receives 100 hits, it’s not going to sell at that price, at least not in that condition.
Exception is one that went STI and then fell apart. Then you have to start back at 1 again. Hits means hits via the mls…agents viewing it.
I can’t claim too much experience with the # of hits vs. a sale, but I do know that it did not sell during the first weekend on the market…
The good news is that we’re still looking for a buyer!
However, I did fly up to Seattle this weekend and pull my family down to LA. I’ve been purposely quiet about our move (and our listing in general) because it was making Anna uncomfortable to talk about the fact that I was in LA while they (my wife and kids) were still in Seattle. However, now that they are living with me in LA, I feel much more comfortable discussing ALL the details. Lots more to come…
[...] Dustin and Anna Luther over at Rain City Guide have listed their cute Ballard Bungalow with L.T.D. Real Estate for $495,000 and has augmented the typical marketing with listings on Googlebase and Craigslist (so far free, but charging NY brokers $10 a listing — still about 10 x less than the local newspaper.) Rain City Guide [...]
3 cents,
Well Im not sure if its good news or bad news. The only good news so far is that people are looking for homes in ballard in Dustins price range.
The time frame is from the day it went into the mls until yesterday.
[...] I would argue universal distribution of listings is a good thing and that most arguments against universal distribution (most not all) are just disguising mediocre real estate agents’ fear of an open industry where consumers make fully informed decisions about buying and selling real estate. If I were selling my home, I’d ask my agent if my house was going to be advertised on the two biggies at the very least: on the MLS and on Craigslist. Then, if you’re ambitious, see if they were going to buy some Google Adwords to promote the property. But before that, I’d make sure the simple description of my house was great and that the 15 photos were perfect – the basics are the most important! Most other sites are used by home buyers in conjunction with MLS sites like ours (and Windermere and RCG) along with Craigslist for for sale by owner listings, so they aren’t as important. [...]