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Archive for June 13th, 2007

Top FSBO sites

So here is the list I was talking about. These are sites that let you post your property. I added a keyword column to illustrate that a site might get a lot of traffic but not necessarily qualified.

Web Site
Monthly
Visitors
Number of
Properties
FREE?
Most popular
keywords

realestate.yahoo.com
2,600,000
 
no
 

www.zillow.com
1,900,000
 
yes
 

www.oodle.com
1,300,000
 
yes**
classifieds

www.forsalebyowner.com
1,200,000
 
no
by owner sale

www.backpage.com
848,653
8,178
yes
rental

www.owners.com
560,246
46,447
no
by home owner

www.domesticsale.com
553,561
 
yes
 

www.livedeal.com
544,240
 
yes*
 

www.vast.com
493,433
 
no
 

www.chooseyouritem.com
412,007
1,000
yes
 

www.craigslist.com
370,108
 
yes
 

www.usfreeads.com
268,808
303
yes
 

www.americanclassifieds.com
266,892
 
yes
 

www.homesbyowner.com
234,603
 
yes
fsbo leads

www.buyowner.com
221,455
 
no
fsbo real estate

www.fsbo.com
188,407
7,000
no
property by owner

www.google.com/base
80,383
 
yes
 

www.byowner.com
79,765
 
no
fsbo home

www.edgeio.com
78,546
 
yes
 

fsboadvertisingservice.com
72,888
 
no
selling your home

www.virtualfsbo.com
62,851
 
yes
alabama fsbo

forsalebyownercenter.com
60,849
 
yes
free fsbo [...]

Ad on DomesticSale.com

Ok, I actually sat down today and put together the most definitive list of places to post your property for sale online. I looked up traffic numbers and prices. I’m going down the list and adding my condo on every single one. On the top of the list were yahoo.com

zillow.com
oodle.com
forsalebyowner.com
backpage.com
owners.com
domesticsale.com
livedeal.com
vast.com
chooseyouritem.com
craigslist.com
usfreeads.com

DomesticSale.com lets you place an ad [...]

Zillow.com ad

So I posted my condo on Zillow.com. Was very easy and free. They do ask for a credit card but for obvious purposes…they don’t want anyone just posting other peoples properties. Very clever move by Zillow…what they really want is the property info…owner name, photos, etc… by making it free they get all that good [...]

Condo Rules…not

I refuse to lose money with this thing. I’ll keep it till the market changes….whenever that is. If I can sell it now great. The problem is I bought it $355k and dropped $70k on it. The market value is probably $320k but that doesn’t mean I lose $35k…it means I lose at LEAST $55k [...]