Posts tagged 31 reasons to sell with buy owner

Reason #28 to Sell with Buy Owner: Green Living Tips

Jan28
2010 Leave a Comment Written by Alicia

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Concerned about your carbon footprint? Looking for ways to live greener? The Buy Owner Blog’s Green Living is for you.

This section of the blog provides you with a multitude of up-to-date information on eco-friendly, energy-efficient ideas for your home. Whether you want to increase the value of your home before you sell it, you need to know what to look for when buying an eco-friendly house, or you’re looking to decrease your energy bills by renovating with energy-efficient insulation or lighting, this is the section for you. All of the information will help you lower your energy bills, increase your home’s value and decrease your carbon footprint. Also, government tax credits are available for people who incorporate green living into their homes! For more information, read up on our most current Green Living blogs.

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Reason #27 to Sell with Buy Owner: Buy Owner Blog

Jan27
2010 Leave a Comment Written by Shanna

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The Buy Owner Blog is your one-stop resource for regularly updated selling tips, buying tips, regional information, market information and decorating/staging ideas. At Buy Owner, we believe selling or buying your home is one of the most important decisions of your life. That’s why we are dedicated to providing you with helpful advice and resources about selling and buying property. At the blog, our priority is getting information in your hands.

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Reason #25 to Sell with Buy Owner: Flyers Tool

Jan25
2010 Leave a Comment Written by Becky

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When you sell with Buy Owner, you have the advantage of using the Buy Owner Sellers Tool to make personalized flyers to promote your home. The Buy Owner Sellers Tool lets you create three styles of flyers in any of six different colors. You get to choose the design, the color scheme and the content of the flyer. You can use your existing professional description, or you can create your own description specific to your flyer.

By using the Buy Owner Sellers Tool, you’ll have custom flyers that you can print out and distribute!

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Reason #24 to Sell with Buy Owner: Zestimate® Feature!

Jan24
2010 Leave a Comment Written by Shanna

When you market your home through BuyOwner.com, you have several cool tools at your disposal. From within your Seller Tools online, for example, you can see what Zillow’s Zestimate value for your home would be!

Did You Know?
The #1 reason homes stay on the market too long is pricing. It’s true. So if yours is priced too high, you scare away buyers and reduce your chances of selling.

Use the Zestimate tool within your Seller Tools to find Zillow’s estimated market value and suggested price range appropriate for your property!

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Reason #22 to Sell with Buy Owner: Schools Listings

Jan22
2010 Leave a Comment Written by Shanna

As we pointed out yesterday, Buy Owner’s advertising includes customizable Google maps that can show not only streets, highways and your home’s location, but also schools!

In addition to appearing on the map, each school in the area is also listed at the bottom of the page and grouped into categories, which are customizable: Combined, Elementary, Junior High, Kindergarten/Preschool, Middle School, Senior High School, Private and Universities & Colleges.

Don’t want the schools shown? No problem. Want to look at the map with just public or just private schools? No problem. Want potential buyers to be able to see what schools are near your home? Done.

This is just one more feature of your Buy Owner advertising!

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Reason #21 to Sell with Buy Owner: Google Maps

Jan21
2010 Leave a Comment Written by Carrie

When you want to advertise the features of your property on the Buy Owner site, there is a lot of information to convey. You’ll want the ad to describe the ins and outs of the home, but you may also want to communicate the location.

That’s where Google Mapping comes into play!

Show potential buyers your home’s exact location, if you’d like. The custom Google Map can appear below your home’s description or in a tab on Elite ads, and it will show your home’s pinpoint on a map of the area.

Plus, here are just some of the other bits of information a potential buyer will see on your Google Map:

  • Highways
  • Parks
  • Public transportation stops
  • Schools (customizable)
  • Streets/intersections

A buyer may even choose which schools are shown on the map, or they can hide the schools altogether. 

Head over to BuyOwner.com to see this tool in action!

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Reason #12 to Sell with Buy Owner: Custom Captions

Jan12
2010 Leave a Comment Written by Shanna

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You know what can enhance your home’s professional photographs? Captions.

If you select an elite Buy Owner ad, your captions may be created for you by the in-house writing staff. If you are writing your own captions, though, you will want to focus on targeting buyer interest by providing key information.

Check out this former Buy Owner Blog post that explains the cyclical nature of photo viewing online. Buyers who like what they see will want more info – what are they looking at? are those floors real wood or laminate? do those appliances stay?

So whether you answer potential questions in the ad itself or in the captions, you need to answer them. The benefit of captions is that the information is immediately accessible to the viewer.

Control over captions is just one more example of Buy Owner’s putting power back in your hands. It’s your ad, so you make the decisions. Use those captions to showcase your home’s features!

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Reason #10 to Sell with Buy Owner: Community Info

Jan10
2010 Leave a Comment Written by Shanna

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It’s the oldest rule of real estate: Location, Location, Location.

In most real estate advertisements, there isn’t room to talk about location. But with Buy Owner’s longer, more descriptive ads, you can highlight features of your home’s community!

    Things you could include in your ad:

  • Maps and lists of local schools
  • Proximity to shopping & dining
  • Area attractions, from parks to entertainment centers
  • Convenience to transportation (highways, trains, buses, etc.)
  • Neighborhood features, if applicable (pool, tennis, gated entry)
    For examples of how community can be showcased in a Buy Owner ad, check out these existing listings!

  • Chicago condo with tabs for community and development
  • Coral Gables, FL, luxury home with community info included in end of second paragraph
  • Atlanta home that starts and ends by discussing location
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Reason #8 to Sell with Buy Owner: Choice of Placement

Jan08
2010 Leave a Comment Written by Shanna

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When we say you get to customize your Buy Owner ad package, we mean you get to customize it. You choose it all: how much text you want, how many photos and virtual tours, whether or not to list nearby schools and what types of schools to show on your map. You can even choose to put your home at the beginning of search results on BuyOwner.com!

When you go over these choices, your qualified marketing consultant will discuss all available options with you and, considering cost and value, help you decide what is the best package for you.

vs. FSBO without Buy Owner
Compare this scenario with one in which you do everything on your own: doesn’t knowing you still have control without all the pressure feel like a huge relief? With Buy Owner, you save money, do things your way & still have help.

vs. Using an Agent
And compare this scenario with one in which you hire an agent or broker on your behalf: Not only do you lose 6% of the selling price to commissions, but you will lose a lot of the control. Buyers will call the Realtor, not you. Showings will be done by the Realtor, not you.

Why wouldn’t you want to be in control of your home sale? After all, who knows your home better than you do?

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Reason #6 to Sell with Buy Owner: Customer Service

Jan06
2010 Leave a Comment Written by Shanna

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One of the best benefits of selling on your own through Buy Owner is the support you receive along the way. When you have questions, want to make changes or just aren’t sure who to ask about something, the friendly and knowledgeable customer service department is there for you!

Available seven days a week, Buy Owner’s customer service staff is unquestionably one of the most helpful resources for fsbo sellers.

Check out this previous article to read more, or stop by Buy Owner’s testimonial page for a long list of comments from our satisfied customers!

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