Lobo, ON

We know that a fool and his money are soon parted, but how did they get together in the first place?Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Use the dollar as a bookmark.Know your numbers: When a Tax Auditor asked a wealthy used junk yard owner why he was so successful, he said it was his markup. What was his markup asked the auditor.3% said the junk man. Well, how can you make money with just a 3% profit. I don't know, he said, I buy for 1 dollar and sell for 3 dollars!

Well. my FSBO took my advice and did about 2/3 of what I asked him to do to ready his place for sale. I was waiting for a stager to come and do her thing later this week. My advertising was in place and I had walked around the neighborhood delivering flyers announcing the upcoming listing and giving invitations to attend the first open house. My sign was in the lawn and I was ready to go. Just needed the stagers and the pictures to do the feature sheets. I get a call that afternoon from another agent asking to show it that evening. I told her it wasn't ready yet or even listed on MLS but she said her clients were anxious to see it because they really wanted that area. OK - no problem, I'll put a lock box on it. That evening I received a very strong Offer on the property. The next day my seller signed it back and was in absolute disbelief tha this had happened. How do you advertise selling a house that had a pending listing on MLS that hadn't even been released yet. Sold In 0 Days? Anyway, the conditions are boiler plate, the closing will be within one month. Buyer is flabergasted. He told me that a friend of his has a house to sell and she is thinking of sticking a sign in the lawn. "How hard can it be" she told me client. My client told her "you have no idea how wearing the whole process is". He asked if he could give her my card.

So if the sale goes through, the house would have been listed by two other agents for 3 months, FSBO for 2 months and me - well- I guess 1 day. I'm thrilled that he is thrilled. Won't count it until it's done but I'm so inspired to make FSBO marketing part of my routine marketing.

Does anyone have any FSBO marketing ideas that have worked for them?