home wherever possible. One of the best marketing tools is a professional pamphlet listing the best selling points of your home. You need to include features like square footage, number and kinds of rooms and amenities, and any additional features like a deck, spa, pool, and so forth. Sites like forsalebyowner.com facilitate converting your adverts into fliers that you can print as needed. Keep plenty of hard copies of these materials with you, and arrange to hang a brochure box near your sign to place some copies of the brochures in front of your home for interested parties to pick up. CRAIGLIST This incredibly useful free classifieds website is a great avenue for selling properties yourself. When you are attempting to list your property on this site, prepare a quality description like what an agent would print on a flier or MLS database. Consider the top highlights of your home and put a few photographs showcasing those features. The good thing is that you can put photos on Craigslist for free, so feel free to put up as many shots as you can find that make your house look good. You will need to relist your advert every day for maximum effect, though, so consider setting yourself an alarm or reminder of some sort so the listing doesn’t slip into obscurity. Since the listing
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