Comments on: Our Home is Now Listed!

By: Realtors are feeding listings everywhere | Rain City Guide | A Seattle Real Estate Blog...

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:39:52 +0000

[...] 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. [...]

By: Allen Benson

Allen Benson — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:29:41 +0000

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.

By: 360Digest » Odds and Ends

360Digest » Odds and Ends — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:41:38 +0000

[...] 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 [...]

By: Dustin

Dustin — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:57:52 +0000

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…

By: ARDELL

ARDELL — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:13:53 +0000

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.

By: 3 cents

3 cents — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 04:16:03 +0000

let’s see Allen— 47 divided by 200… umm? over how long a period? Is this good news or bad? just curious

By: Allen Benson

Allen Benson — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 02:57:45 +0000

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.

By: 3 cents

3 cents — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 02:08:52 +0000

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?

By: Dustin

Dustin — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:19:09 +0000

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!

By: Marlow Harris

Marlow Harris — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 02:51:33 +0000

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!