Selling Tactics

Red Buys Houses asked:


We all know it’s bad out there…With the severe credit crisis and the declining housing market, Fox, CNN, MSNBC, and even the President remind us of our struggles daily. Home foreclosures are at an all time high, even in my neighborhood in Austin Texas with many more foreclosures predicted to come. Housing resale values are at all time lows with no end in sight. Even the banks are going bankrupt as many Americans no longer qualify for credit.

Because of the recent credit crisis, many people don’t qualify for a new loan to buy a house right now, despite the incredibly low housing prices. Many home sellers can’t sell their unwanted houses because they owe more than their house is worth due to falling house prices. Many sellers can’t even rent their houses out for enough to cover their mortgage payments, taxes and insurance resulting in severe negative cash flow that bleeds then dry month after month. To make matters worse, many tenants end up trashing the house when they move out making it even more difficult and expensive to sell.

If they list their house with a real estate agent, their house will likely sit on the market for a long, long time waiting to sell since the buyers seem to have magically disappeared. Even if the house does finally sell one day at a greatly REDUCED price to get it sold, the owner has to pay a 6% real estate commission plus the majority of the closing costs. This often results in the seller writing a big, fat check at the closing table to finally get their house sold.

So what are my options to sell my house in Austin Texas fast in this depressed economy and housing market when many folks can’t get a loan? By trial and error, I discovered the following 3 alternatives to try to sell my Austin TX home quickly…

1. I tried to sell my house in Austin “For Sale by Owner” aka “FSBO”.

At first, selling my house by myself sounded easy enough, but it soon became my worst nightmare! What went wrong:

At first I didn’t know how to attract buyers that might be interested in purchasing a home in Buford Georgia…The For Sale By Owner sign in the yard wasn’t working. I ended up spending a fortune placing classifieds in the local paper which resulted in few potential buyers. Those that did respond wanted to see my house at all different hours of the day or night. I was afraid to say no in fear of losing a potential buyer. I would have to keep my house clean and all picked up, only to have them flake out and not show up! Other times I had some pretty scary people show up with their rowdy kids in tow, trampling through my home.



I never did find my ideal buyer. Even if I did, I had no idea how to get them qualified, how to handle all the purchase and sale paperwork or how to get the house closed. I said “There has to be a better way to sell my home!” and I was determined to find it.

2. I listed my house for sale with a local Austin real estate agent.

I called an agent from a local, seemingly reputable, real estate agency and made an appointment for her to come out and see the property. The agent sounded like she really knew what she was talking about and got me really excited about the prospect of selling my home quickly. She said she would list my house in the MLS, on dozens of real estate sites throughout Texas, advertise my house in the local paper and other print publications, do multiple open houses, put out signs, balloons, flyers in an information box and went on and on about how she could sell my home and still get top dollar. How could I refuse? I didn’t.

I listed my house and waited, and waited and waited. The agent put the house on the MLS, but the market was pretty tough and, despite her best efforts, six months later, I still didn’t have a buyer. Meanwhile, my house had not only decreased in value because it would not sell for the list price, which had been reduced repeatedly, but also because of all the other listed houses and foreclosures on the market in my area of Austin. At this point, I was all out of ideas and praying for a solution. About that time, someone at my church told me about RedBuysHouses.com.

3. I contacted a local, professional home buyer from Austin, Texas.

My friend from church told me that she had similar problems selling her Austin house, but that she had contacted a local professional home buyer who bought her house in under a week! What? Is this possible? Could I sell my Austin Texas house in 7 days or less, too? She said there are professional house buyers out there, also known as “real estate investors”, who buy and sell real estate for investment purposes. You’ve probably seen their “We Buy Houses” advertisements around town but never gave them much thought. These are people who buy houses professionally and are always actively looking for more houses to buy. She gave me their phone number and web address (Locally 512-945-6006, website: www.RedBuysHouses.com) and I contacted them ASAP. A local Austin home buyer from there called me and said that if my house qualified and if I was flexible on price or terms, that they may be able to buy my house in the next 7 days or less. She said depending on my situation that they may be able to pay all cash, pay some cash now and some cash later or take over my mortgage payments giving me immediate debt relief. At this point I was definitely flexible and had nothing to lose by scheduling an appointment for them to come see my home and possibly allow me to sell my Austin Texas house fast!

So I scheduled the appointment with the Austin home buyer and she came out and inspected my home. She said it was just what they were looking for and that she had several buyers looking for a similar home. I was ecstatic! She made me several offers to buy my house as promised. I chose the offer that best suited my needs and we scheduled a closing the following week with a local real estate closing attorney. It was that fast and that simple to finally sell my house in Austin! I still can’t get over it. After waiting two years trying to sell my house on my own and through a licensed agent, I was able to sell my house in less than 7 days to a local professional home buying company!

If you have an unwanted Austin Texas house you need to sell fast, call 512-945-6006 or visit www.RedBuysHouses.com and complete their online Seller Questionnaire for a FREE, no obligation consultation. You have nothing to lose by contacting them and everything to gain. I was able to sell my Austin home fast and you can too!



DARRELL

T E asked:


A friend sells his stock whenever the stock drops 7% after purchase or his cost. That strategy saved him a lot in the past year when the market dropped about 50%. However, that also means, he lost all his gains with his stocks when the stock market dropped.

Should he have a strategy to sell after GAINING, say 50%, and then re-buy the stock back, while maintaing the SELLING strategy of 7% of cost?

ROMEO

Andrew Youtz asked:


You’ve heard the stories of eBay success and probably even deemed some of them unbelievable. EBay has taken internet sales by storm and many people around the world are now making a great full time living from eBay alone. I began selling on eBay in April of 2006 and quickly found just how profitable eBay can be. EBay became my primary income only 3 months after my first sale. I now make a 6 figure full time income generated only by my eBay Powerseller accounts. Here are a few tips to follow to help you get started on the road to financial freedom for yourself.

Start selling items from around your home

Go through your closets, garage, cupboards, attic and basement and look for things you don’t use or no longer need. Remember, trash is trash, but things you might think of as trash actually can be sold on eBay very easily. Selling items that you no longer need or want will help increase your feedback and allow you to build your reputation on eBay. You probably won’t get rich selling the stuff you don’t want, but it sure is a great way to remove clutter from your home and make you some extra cash.

The Feedback Score is Very Important

As mentioned above, you want to build your feedback. Shoot to get your feedback score up in the double or triple digits as quickly as possible. This will make a huge difference to your potential customers. Feedback scores are grouped together into one category whether you are buying or selling. If people want to view your feedback score (your reputation) they can visit your feedback profile area and read the comments that are left by previous buyers and sellers that you dealt with. Do people really do that? YES they do.

Sign Up With PayPal

95% of all payments I receive are made to me through PayPal. PayPal accepts credit card payments and electronic checks so you don’t even need to get a merchant account to sell on eBay or anywhere else online. PayPal is set up to be a simple and fast funding source for eBay customers and is quickly becoming one of the primary payment sources all over the internet.

Communication is very important!

EBay is all about how well you can communicate. Your item description is one of the most important factors in whether or not your item sells. Your description should tell the buyer everything about the item you are selling. Lots of quality pictures are also a very important factor to determine whether or not you make a sale. Once again look at what the other sellers are doing and take note of why some sellers just seem more credible than others. It is OK if you are selling something that is flawed or scratched as long as you tell the buyers about it in your ad. Do not be afraid to point out the condition of the item. If it is not working it can still sell. There are people looking for what you are selling. It all comes down to price and whether or not they find you a credible seller.

Be sure to communicate with the buyer before, during and after the sale. Messages sent letting customers know what is going on at all points in the process will help assure you receive a positive feedback. Be sure to send a thank you message when the item is won or purchased and additional messages when you receive payment and ship their item. In all your communications be polite and courteous. When you do this you will build an incredible reputation and people will be spreading the word about you as a great eBay seller.

Don’t get discouraged

It is likely that it will take a while to become accustom to selling on eBay and build your reputation to the point that you see regular sales. People are bargain hunting on eBay, so find items you can afford to sell, and price them so you can make the profit you want. If you have items that are hand crafted or homemade, decide if the price you can sell them at is going to be worth your time and effort. Search eBay for items similar to your own and get an idea of the price things sell for. Check your competition. Find out if hundreds of people selling the same item? Can you compete with them? Are your suppliers selling the same products on eBay? Millions of items sell on eBay daily so don’t limit yourself or get your heart set on selling one specific thing.

You can make great money selling on eBay just like the millions of eBay sellers all over the world. Whether you want to be an EBay seller part time as a hobby, or turn it into a full time business will be up to you. These 5 basic tips will help you set the foundation to build a profit producing eBay business of your own.



OMAR

Ladybug3 asked:


We are thinking of selling shares of our vacation home in Nags Head NC. It’s 4 BR/3Bath on golf course with view of the sound. Need information on how to go about selling it as co-ownership.

GLEN

Andrew Wilson asked:


There are many reasons for people to sell their property online. Some property owners would prefer to sell their property because they no longer need or want it, and they can’t handle the tax hassle and upkeep is too much. Many retired personnel, prefer to sell their property online because they can get quick results and quick cash. Selling online means your property will be sold within a few weeks. You don’t have to wait for estate agent to sell your property who takes months to sell your property. The process is very simple if you want to sell your property online, just contact the property website, tell them you want to sell your property and within a few days your property is sold. If you sell online, you can get the benefit of fast cash. Many people sell online because of economic slowdown. People are not able to manage their living expenses or unexpected bills, like medical bills or home repairs because unemployment rates are at an all time high due to which many people are losing their jobs. So to manage all their expenses, they have to sell their property online.

The internet has made it possible for property owners to quickly find a buyer without leaving the home, or pay a broker or real estate agent. Even though technology has improved, still people prefer traditional and old fashioned methods to sell the property. Time is very important in the fast paced world today, and people all around the globe are always trying to find ways to save time, money or both.

Other benefits include reaching a global audience, thereby increasing sales opportunity. Able to compete with larger businesses by being able to open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You will be able to receive payment more quickly from online transactions.

Many people sell house online due to financial difficulties, relocation, emigration, illness, divorce etc. Many couples depart with each other so they plan to sell the property online as they not want that house. Some specialist companies help people with sell and rent back scheme also. Many people would like to sell the property quickly but do not want to leave the house. Then the best solution would be to sell the property to the specialist company and stay in the same house as a tenant paying rent monthly. Internet gives us a hassle free life.



ADOLFO

zilla asked:


I am only interested in selling things that are the best in their own right. Things like the CC radio series, leatherman tools, and the like. Please tell me what you want, why it is the best and why I should try to be able to sell it. I appreciate your feedback, seriously.

ARMANDO

WeBuyHouses.net asked:


Do you have a home in Suwanee Georgia you need to sell quickly?

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GREGORIO

Mark Grey asked:


When we want to sell old electronics knowing where to go for the best service and price is just as important as when we want to buy – therefore I would like to take a few moments and offer some guidelines as to what to look for in a company that you are going to sell old electronics to, and the benefits of selling them online as opposed to offline. With the internet growing at a phenomenal rate it is imperative to find a well established site for you to sell your old electronics to ensure that you receive the service we have already stated you deserve, but also a dedicated to for selling old electronics to ensure you get the great price also.

Firstly the reason it is better to sell your used electronics online is for two main factors – the convenience to yourself, being able to sell from the comfort of your armchair, at no expense to yourself meaning you benefit more from the price you receive when you sell your old electronics. And secondly, you will find many stores have overhead costs and running costs that are not shared by websites, there for more often than not you will receive a lower price from these stores as they need to gain a greater profit, and it also eliminates the cost of you reaching these stores whether it be a bus journey or a trip in the car with fuel and parking costs – overall this makes selling old electronics online the preferred option by many.

So with the idea of selling our old electronics online the objective now comes back to find an established and dedicated site to sell the old electronics to, to ensure we receive the best service and the greatest price available. Many sites will allow you to trade various electronics with them; however I favor sites that are dedicated to a specific device, or gadget to ensure you receive a specialist service for the old electronics you intend to sell. You may be thinking this is a hard site to come by, but I will guide you now towards the ‘CashFor’ family who have been trading online since 2002, allowing businesses and individuals to sell their old electronics for great prices – and they pay for all shipping and handling fees leaving you with 100% profit when you sell your old electronics with them.

The next step is for you to take a visit to www.cash4laptops.com and www.cashforsmartphones.com to get an idea of the service they offer, and remember they have a whole host of sites dedicated to each electronic, but these will give you a start and peace of mind that you are selling your old electronics to a specialized, dedicated site. So to summarize, make sure you receive the best available when you sell your old electronics, sell them online and with the ‘CashFor’ family – the online specialist slowing you to sell your old electronics for great benefits.



BILLY

Paul Fryatt asked:


ght (c) 2009 Paul Fryatt

When i had a car to sell like everyone else before me the normal route to take was to advertise in the local paper or a national magazine and/or on the internet.

I started with the local paper and you get the usual kind of response of people calling for more information about the car and more often than not people asking what i would take for the car even before they had seen it!

This used to waste a lot of my time because most of these callers who were normally just time wasters phoning around trying to catch a bite to see if someone out there was so desperate to sell their car they could buy it for next to nothing.

So this went on for the first week - car not sold. Second week even less response - car still not sold.

I tried to work out what might be the reason. Is it the wrong time of year? Holiday time, people spending their money on different things. I’ll try again in a month’s time. But still the same results.

I check the advert. Everything looks ok compared it to the others in the same price range, same year of car, nice photos, but i’m still stuck with the car.

I try the car on eBay®. Again i do everything i normally do, good description, plenty of good photos nothing wrong there.

But still not sold. I know on eBay® people do expect something for nothing but i thought maybe someone might email me and we could do a deal outside of eBay® and get a better price for the car.

I looked at a few internet forums and the news wasn’t that good there either. The general conversation was people were finding it quite difficult to sell their cars that would normally get sold very easily.

The dealers are using the same methods and getting the same results, cars just sitting on forecourts week after week, month after month in some cases.

I have sold a few cars in the past and i can remember all i had to do was have a half decent car clean it up and it was gone sooner rather than later, no problem.

Nowadays you have to work a little smarter even just to get someone interested let alone hand over their money. But this doesn’t stop the amount of cars being offered for sale.

I’m sure someone must be getting a good deal somewhere but the overall opinion seems to be that it’s not happening for a huge amount of car sellers out there and if one of them is you what next step do you take?

Advertising Problems

I started to look at all the other adverts where i had been advertising and they all looked the same nothing really jumps out at you and says, ‘look at me’ or gets your attention.

Big bold letters stating the make and model of the car bit of a description and the price in big numbers at the end.

With this in mind, why would someone choose my advert over someone else’s? But this is how everyone advertises their car for sale and i thought it’s not always in the best interest of the advertiser even though we are paying good money to do it.

The only one it seems to benefit is the paper or magazine or website you or i are using. If it doesn’t sell the one losing out is me and you.

Is this the best way of advertising? Err, no! Is the simple answer to that question!

You’re just taken a ’shot in the dark’ hoping you’ll get a bite amongst all the other people fishing for attention as well.

For example, everyone normally places an advert because a publication has a readership of so many thousands of people or a website has so many visitors per week or month.

You might see something like this: ‘Get your car seen by 300,000 hungry car buyers!

Then we pay our money. Big mistake.

How many of those readers are looking for your make and model of car? Most of us would say they don’t know.

How then can this be the best route to sell your car?

There might be 10,000 out of the 300,000 who are looking for your particular car. But then is yours the same colour the buyer is looking for? Does it have the mileage they want? Air con? Alloys?

By the time all the boxes are ticked you could have less than a 1,000 people interested and then it depends on how far away from you they live. You’re not told all this when looking to advertise though are you? That’s if they find you among all the other similar adverts!

It’s not my car that’s the problem; it’s the way we advertise that’s the biggest problem!

If you don’t get to the right people who want to buy your car then you are wasting a large amount of your hard-earned money.

It’s like going to the airport and asking for a ticket but not having a destination to fly to.

Why Most Advertising Doesn’t Work!

When you or i take out an advert in a magazine or any other publication a lot of the time it doesn’t always work to the advertisers advantage.

This is because the advertising people are selling you the space based on what you can normally afford whereas you are advertising because you need your car sold.

So there are 2 different mindsets here. First of all the advertising you may be sold may not necessarily benefit you for the purpose of selling your car. You may think you got a better deal because of the amount of money you pay.

Bigger advert = more exposure, better response. But not so.

Always remember that the person selling you the advert space is working on a set wage or commission so all they are interested in is how much you have to spend! You as an advertiser want to know the response you need to achieve in order to sell your car.

Just because a paper or magazine has a readership of 1,000’s of people every week is not a guarantee that your car will sell.

For example, if i took out yellow pages advertising and i was a plumber i need to know how many people look for a plumber in that publication.

It may have 1,000’s of readers but if someone is looking for a florist then that’s not going to help me is it?

It’s the same with selling your car. If you have a Ford for sale then a buyer who wants a Mercedes isn’t going to be one bit interested in your advert even though you’ve been told if you have a bigger advert you’ll get a better response. Not true!!

When advertising what a lot of us don’t consider is the people or buyers we are trying to reach. It’s important to ask yourself questions before taking out any kind of advertising whatsoever. If you don’t you’ll be throwing away a lot of time and effort and also your money along with it.

Find out what the potential buyers are interested in and looking for before you even write out your advert. Remember back when you were searching for the car you bought.

What was important to you? What research did you do before you bought your car? Put this information in your ad and you’ll have a winner! Leave it out and get the same result everyone else is.

Good and bad results happen for a reason, follow a path or pattern that someone else has gone down and you have the same results (good and bad) as them!

So when you’re told a bigger ad will generate a better response please keep your money in your pocket!!

Most advertisers when their car doesn’t sell they reduce the price of their car. Everyone does this to generate more of a response but the problem is not the price of the car the real problem is you have taken the wrong advice of how to advertise and sell your car!

Don’t get me wrong i’m not saying that advertising doesn’t work, it does. But the vast majority of the time we don’t use that advert we have paid for with our hard earned money to its full advantage.

LEWIS

Glitch asked:


I’m planning on getting the Xbox 360 Elite at the new price. And don’t worry, I’m selling other stuff too, so don’t tell me I’m not going to get enough.

CARMELO