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The concept of selling by owner has been around longer than Realtors. With the vast accessibility to the Internet, it is now easy and economical to list and sell your home by owner. I experienced saving thousands of dollars firsthand using sell by owner. Here’s how it happened.

Ready to purchase my first house I explored the local market for the right home. I located a nice three-bedroom, which happened to be for sale by owner. 12 days later I owned the place. No brokers, no agents, just the seller and myself agreeing, over lunch, on the terms that we were both pleased with. Since the seller had no commissions to pay, he was more willing to negotiate price, creating a win-win situation.

A few years passed and I found myself moving to Bend, Oregon. Without hesitation I listed my house on my town’s local FSBO website. The cost was only a few hundred dollars. In a few months a first-time home buyer, who wanted to rent and then purchase the home six months later found me. The local FSBO site met my individual needs as well as the needs of the buyers. I hired an attorney to write up the proper contracts for under $300, and the family moved in the next day. My listing on the FSBO site and attorney fees totaled under $450. Without a doubt this was one of the best financial decisions I ever made. Keeping my money where it belonged, in my pocket!

Pleased with both my buying and selling experience ‘by owner’ I made a point to include FSBO properties in my Bend home search. Immediately I noticed there were many FSBO properties listed in the newspaper and signs around the area. Sifting and sorting through all of the non-informative ads, was time consuming and disorganized. Right then I realized the need for a marketplace to efficiently bring together Central Oregon FSBO buyers and sellers.

Talking with individuals who were selling ‘by owner’, I found many of them were only putting signs in their front yard in hopes that someone would drive past and read what they had written on the knee-high hardware store special sign. Inevitably homeowners would tell me how they just were not getting the exposure they needed. FSBObend.com was created!

Continuing to talk to ‘by owner’ sellers we started putting together the tools that will get your home sold quicker and easier. Most important of all, we help preserve your equity from commission-erosion.

We at FSBObend.com have designed our services around other highly successful FSBO sites that individually operate in other cities and towns around the US. By hand picking the most proven features, we have customized our site for Central Oregon buyers and sellers. We are proud to be of service to all the people of Central Oregon who have decided to keep what is theirs: Hard earned home-equity!!!