Websites known to get houses bought...

I've been looking for websites that are successful at getting houses bought. If anyone has real experience with moving their properties via a particular site, please contact me asap with my email or phone number at the bottom of this post.

Edited: 06/26/2010 at 10:30AM

J Scott

Real Estate Investor · Atlanta, Georgia

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Icon_minipost Nov 12 '09, 11:04 PM

Have you tried the FMLS?

This one has worked for me over and over and over again... :)

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David Sirmons

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Icon_minipost Nov 12 '09, 11:17 PM

To advertise a house on FMLS requires you to be a real estate agent, and to have a broker. I'm not an agent. I'm looking for independent websites, not MLS or any derivative of MLS.

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J Scott

Real Estate Investor · Atlanta, Georgia

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Icon_minipost Nov 12 '09, 11:26 PM

Originally posted by David Sirmons

To advertise a house on FMLS requires you to be a real estate agent, and to have a broker.

Actually, it only requires you to have an agent or a broker to list the house for you (you don't need to be an agent yourself)...and there are plenty of agents that will list a house for you on the MLS for as little as a $500 flat fee (you take care of the showings, etc, they just list it on the MLS)...

In my opinion, it's well worth it...as there are no websites (that I know of) that come anywhere close to the reach of the FMLS when it comes to marketing houses and finding buyers...

Especially in this market, I don't know why anyone wouldn't feel it was worth $500 to list their houses on the MLS...

Edited: 06/26/2010 at 10:30AM

Larry Moore

Real Estate Investor · Belvidere, Illinois

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Icon_minipost Nov 13 '09, 12:32 AM

Craigslist has worked very well for me. I always check my competition for my current listing, post my best photos and give them a bunch of reasons to want to look at my house (every positive I can come up with). Haven't had to use the MLS yet, although I have considered the flat fee listing as a back up. I have seen fees as low as $300 in this area.

Edited: 06/26/2010 at 10:30AM

Kendra T.

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Icon_minipost Nov 13 '09, 04:39 AM

Definitely Craigslist.

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Eddie Ziv

Real Estate Investor · Studio City, California

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Icon_minipost Nov 13 '09, 05:52 AM

Ok, so here is the question for all of you "Craig-listers" out there. How do you advertise a property nationally? Usually, when you want to put an ad, you have to do it locally.

Edited: 06/26/2010 at 10:30AM

Demos Loizides

Real Estate Investor · Dale City, Virginia

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Icon_minipost Nov 13 '09, 06:07 AM

According to the Craigslist TOS agreement, you can't run national ads or even the same ad in more than one location at a time. You can with backpage.com, which is very similar, but not as popular. I've noticed Realtors using backpage.com a lot in the Washington, DC area.

Edited: 06/26/2010 at 10:30AM

James Hiddle

Real Estate Investor · Altus, Oklahoma

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Icon_minipost Nov 13 '09, 06:50 AM

Originally posted by Eddie Ziv

Ok, so here is the question for all of you "Craig-listers" out there. How do you advertise a property nationally? Usually, when you want to put an ad, you have to do it locally.

There are tricks of the trade to list multiple times. You'll have to google on how to do that also ebay I think has some ebooks on the subject.

Just a little tip you can list at least 3 times on 1 account but you have to reword your posting in order to make it look different but still in the same subject.

Edited: 06/26/2010 at 10:30AM by James Hiddle

Herb V.

Real Estate Investor · Vicksburg, Michigan

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Icon_minipost Nov 13 '09, 11:40 AM

One more little tip for CL is to use multiple accounts(email address's) that way you can post every day. One downfall to CL is that when you repost it doesn't carry over the pictures. Herbster

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Demos Loizides

Real Estate Investor · Dale City, Virginia

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Icon_minipost Nov 14 '09, 10:10 AM

The pictures are saved if you use a service like Postlets or save all your pictures in a Bigger Pockets gallery and link it to your ad.

Edited: 06/26/2010 at 10:31AM

Kristian Peter

Real Estate Consultant · San Diego, California

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Icon_minipost Nov 17 '09, 07:27 AM

I would recommend paying a real estate agent $200 to put the property into your local MLS, and make sure that the agent is a member of ListHUB.com or something similar where your property will get syndicated to just about every property search site that any buyer would ever think about using. It will be the best $200 that you ever spend...

Craigslist does work, but only for buyers in your City, and even with those buyers, you have to re-fresh the listing everyday (at least) in order for it to appear towards the top of the list...

If you plan on selling a lot of properties, negotiate with an agent to take care of everything for you - it's worth the extra percentage to give you time to work on your next deal...

Just my 2 cents.

Edited: 06/26/2010 at 10:33AM

Michael G.

Wholesaler · Bay Shore, New York

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Icon_minipost May 05 '10, 08:44 AM

Are you talking wholesale or retail deals?

Try www.sellto310group.com