Comments on: Using Craigslist To Sell Your Home http://www.moneycrashers.com/using-craigslist-to-sell-your-home/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=using-craigslist-to-sell-your-home personal finance blog Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:07:50 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: SoCalTommy http://www.moneycrashers.com/using-craigslist-to-sell-your-home/comment-page-1/#comment-4863 SoCalTommy Fri, 11 May 2007 16:07:00 +0000 http://www.moneycrashers.com/using-craigslist-to-sell-your-home/#comment-4863 Craigslist is terrific for the individual selling almost anything. If you start using it regularly please learn how to Flag bad ads. CL was created for just the kind of thing you did, but there are more and more Businesses who want to hog up what they see as "free" advertising. While you reposted daily to keep your ad near the top (which is also against CL policy, but that's a different discussion), the greedy real estate folks will spam (flood) a category with hundreds of ads for properties that may not even be their own listing. So the individual ad - YOURS - usually gets lost in the clutter. It takes multiple flags from several people (# is secret) to help keep CL ad space to what it was designed for - local, face-to-face, non-business transactions. There are categories for nearly everything someone migh sell and if you are in business, there is a Services section for business to post to. Craigslist is terrific for the individual selling almost anything. If you start using it regularly please learn how to Flag bad ads. CL was created for just the kind of thing you did, but there are more and more Businesses who want to hog up what they see as “free” advertising. While you reposted daily to keep your ad near the top (which is also against CL policy, but that’s a different discussion), the greedy real estate folks will spam (flood) a category with hundreds of ads for properties that may not even be their own listing. So the individual ad – YOURS – usually gets lost in the clutter. It takes multiple flags from several people (# is secret) to help keep CL ad space to what it was designed for – local, face-to-face, non-business transactions. There are categories for nearly everything someone migh sell and if you are in business, there is a Services section for business to post to.

]]> By: erik.folgate http://www.moneycrashers.com/using-craigslist-to-sell-your-home/comment-page-1/#comment-4855 erik.folgate Sun, 06 May 2007 04:48:04 +0000 http://www.moneycrashers.com/using-craigslist-to-sell-your-home/#comment-4855 Well, I wasn't basing it on bids. I was just basing it on the exposure that it's giving our place, and I thought the amount of leads it has generated is impressive. We had someone else using a realtor in our complex and it has been shown twice. The word travels fast, too. Even if 10 people look at it and don't put in an offer, they may have friends or family looking and tip them off about our place. Word of mouth is a powerful marketing too as well. Well, I wasn’t basing it on bids. I was just basing it on the exposure that it’s giving our place, and I thought the amount of leads it has generated is impressive. We had someone else using a realtor in our complex and it has been shown twice. The word travels fast, too. Even if 10 people look at it and don’t put in an offer, they may have friends or family looking and tip them off about our place. Word of mouth is a powerful marketing too as well.

]]> By: Rich Schmidt http://www.moneycrashers.com/using-craigslist-to-sell-your-home/comment-page-1/#comment-4854 Rich Schmidt Sat, 05 May 2007 15:23:33 +0000 http://www.moneycrashers.com/using-craigslist-to-sell-your-home/#comment-4854 We've are buying a house as a rental/investment, and we just started listing it on craigslist. Thanks for the tips about pics & posting frequency! I do have to say, though, that your exuberance seems a little... over the top? "4. Watch the buyers role [sic] in!" seems like a bit much for 1 bid in 3 weeks... though I guess I've never tried selling a home without a real estate agent, so maybe that's what "rolling in" looks like...? We’ve are buying a house as a rental/investment, and we just started listing it on craigslist. Thanks for the tips about pics & posting frequency!

I do have to say, though, that your exuberance seems a little… over the top? “4. Watch the buyers role [sic] in!” seems like a bit much for 1 bid in 3 weeks… though I guess I’ve never tried selling a home without a real estate agent, so maybe that’s what “rolling in” looks like…?

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