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I've sold several houses privately and would never pay the huge fees a realtor charges. You do it all through the lawyers so that part can't go wrong. Put together a nice information package on your house with everything the buyers want/need to know. It also really helps if you pay for a professional appraisal that you can show people. Set a fair educated price. Tell potential buyers that you will be listing it higher if you eventually go to a realtor so they are saving buying private. Be open and honest because you are dealing directly with the buyer so that's a different vibe than indirect. You can share a lawyer to save you both money. You all go and sit down with the lawyer and do the offer and acceptance because you've already negotiated a verbal agreement. CLEAN and DE-CLUTTER.  
As to where to advertise I more recently used Ebrandon and the Brandon Sun.  
 
Edited by bigmoe, 2015-09-27 13:01:19

i sold on ebrandon too and was happy with the outcome  
 
you do have to be prepared to do the work showing and stuff tho, worth it imo but it is a touch more hassle and you dont get the unbiased opinion

We listed privately last year. Hosted a "open house". Had a good turn out. We recieved a call about an hour and a half into our open house with a near full price offer from someone who wanted to make sure it didn't sell to anyone else at the open house. Realtor friend said price was on par, Infact thought we did very well. (Keep in mind we had a beautiful house, show room like in a great neighborhood.). However other estate agent listed houses on our street that were for sale before us were still for sale when we moved out three months later. It's hard when as a seller you have to list a little higher to make sure you get what you want after paying the agent. We saved OVER 17,000 listing private. So we could list slightly lower then the competition and still put more in our pockets then them. Not bad for a days work!!!  
 
Everything is done through lawyers (it did not cost any extra with our lawyer to list private, Infact he offered if our buyers wanted to use him to write the offer and closing he would t charge them to write an offer. Worked very well. All parties were happy.  
 
I should also add that we also purchased out current house off ebrandon. Much easier to deal with possession dates ect when we were all buying private didn't have to wait and go through real estate agents.  
 
Well worth it in my opinion.

Bought a private sale and ran into many problems. Buyers are filtered and monitored through agents with proper disclosures. If I had to to it over again, I would not buy private on my own.

privately via eBrandon. No problems at all. Lawyers have to do the paperwork regardless if you are selling private or listing with a realtor.

We put our house on eBrandon for three weeks. We had 12 viewings the first week and a half, and one offer that fell through. After three weeks it seemed that interest had dropped off even though we'd had over 2,600 views but had no more calls for showings. We also threw and ad on Kijiji at the same time and had a whopping 38 views, so that seemed to be a waste of time, but it's free so that's ok. We decided to go with a realtor and had the house listed not quite two weeks ago and have already had 19 groups of people come through to view. It's not sold yet, but I think by not having it listed through the mls system means that you're essentially only targeting a very small portion of potential buyers. I'm sorry to say that there's a large percentage of people who just don't go onto eBrandon. It's certainly worth throwing on an ad here, but to make it your entire advertising plan may not work well in your favour. I know that paying the 3-6% commission sucks, but in my opinion that's the cost of advertising to a much broader audience and more than likely getting closer to your asking price.

L4593 said "We put our house on eBrandon for three weeks. We had 12 viewings the first week and a half, and one offer that fell through. After three weeks it seemed that interest had dropped off even though we'd had over 2,600 views but had no more calls for showings. We also threw and ad on Kijiji at the same time and had a whopping 38 views, so that seemed to be a waste of time, but it's free so that's ok. We decided to go with a realtor and had the house listed not quite two weeks ago and have already had 19 groups of people come through to view. It's not sold yet, but I think by not having it listed through the mls system means that you're essentially only targeting a very small portion of potential buyers. I'm sorry to say that there's a large percentage of people who just don't go onto eBrandon. It's certainly worth throwing on an ad here, but to make it your entire advertising plan may not work well in your favour. I know that paying the 3-6% commission sucks, but in my opinion that's the cost of advertising to a much broader audience and more than likely getting closer to your asking price. "

You can pay a fee to have your house listed on MLS without selling through a realtor. Private sellers can do what is called a “Mere Posting” but it has to be done through a realtor.  
 
http://www.forsalebyowner.ca/mls-listing.php  
 
Edited by GuyRichards, 2015-09-27 19:52:31