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Testimonials and Success Stories
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SOLD - 12/2002
2.6 months
(Listing date to closing date) |
Ken Higdon
(Listing
#745)
836 Mountain Branch Drive
Vestavia Hills,
AL
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Pat,
The buyer said "the house looks just like the pictures-we want to buy",
and
they did. Thank you for providing such a great marketing tool. We closed
on 12/12/02.
The traffic generated by your site was many times greater
than the traffic generated by the newspaper adds. The people who saw the
pictures and description on your site were seriously looking for a home.
I
will continue to recommend your service to my friends.
Ken Higdon
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SOLD - 12/2002
4.9 months
(Listing date to closing date) |
Ray Hilyer
(Listing #723)2555 Elizabeth Drive
Pelham, AL
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Pat,
We have sold and closed today on our house. It was with great pleasure
that I attached the sold sign to the yard sign.
People are in disbelief when I tell them that your web site resulted in
over 900 hits in less than 3 month time. I will continue to
recommend your services as the best marketing tool available.
Thanks for your help.
Ray
Hilyer |
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SOLD - 11/2002
3.5 months
(Listing date to closing date) |
Jeff Shanks
(Listing
#724)183 Hidden Cove
Circle
Pelham, AL
Hidden Creek
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Hi Pat,
I just wanted to let you know that yesterday's closing went by without a
hitch. I also wanted to thank you for the fantastic service that you
provide. Your high quality pictures are what brought my buyer to me. I had
an offer on the table just weeks after listing my home on your site.
Thanks a lot.
Jeff |
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SOLD - 11/2002
4.5 months
(Listing date to closing date)
$234,900/$235,000
(Asking Price/Selling
Price) |
Chris and Jennifer Ragsdale
(Listing
#691)5016 Knoll View
Circle
Hoover, AL
Southwood Highlands
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Pat,
The website was great. The pictures turned out great. We had people tell
us that the pictures were so good there weren't any 'surprises' when they
were looking at our home. We had, on average, 2 (sometimes 3) showings
every week. We liked the extra exposure that the new price page provided
when we reduced the price of our home.
Thanks for everything!!
Jennifer |
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SOLD - 11/2002
3.4 months
(Listing date to closing date)
$309,900/$308,400
(Asking Price/Selling
Price) |
Barbara and Wayne Wallace
(Listing
#704)146 Brisstol
Lane
Birmingham, AL
Highland Lakes
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Hi Pat,
We sold our house!!! We sold it on the 5th weekend of showing it through
Open House on Saturdays and Sundays. We give your website a great deal of
the credit for our sale. We had so many people that came to see the house
who said they saw it on the internet. After looking at all of the “for
sale by owner” websites yours was the most professional looking with great
pictures and details of the houses. We have no doubt we made the right
choice by using ForSale-ByOwner.com!!! Now if we can just find a house to
buy on ForSale-ByOwner.com!!!
Barbara Wallace |
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SOLD - 10/2002
1.7 months
(Listing date to closing date) |
Jack and Mandie Olvey
(Listing
#733)592 Russet Bend
Drive
Hoover, AL
Russet Woods
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Patrick,
Thank you for helping us sell our home. We had a contract within 2 weeks
of listing on your website for the full asking price!. We closed
approximately 30 days later. You do a very professional job with the
pictures and the information on your website. I never dreamed it would be
this easy to sell our home. We highly recommend your services to anyone
considering selling their home.
Thanks again,
Jack and Mandie Olvey
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SOLD - 9/2002
2.6 months
(Listing date to closing date)
$147,900/$140,996
(Asking Price/Selling
Price) |
Mark and Laura Waggoner
(Listing
#700)
121 Camden Lake DriveCalera, AL
Camden Cove
Calera/Montevallo
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Dear Pat,
Now that I have unpacked the computer, I wanted to thank you for all your
help and advice. You have been very professional since the beginning of
the process.
I was recommended to you by a friend and I’m glad I was! I had the
misfortune of putting the house on the market on the Friday of the first
major stock market crash of the year (2002). Traffic was slow at first,
but then it picked up. I think the two factors were the stock market crash
and Me. I did not read the book very well that you provided (I skimmed
through it). I cannot stress enough the fact that anyone in this process
needs an appraisal right away! That made ALL the difference! If I would
have done a better job of reading the book, I would have saved four weeks
of lack-luster results from too high of a price.
I got the appraisal, and with your help on price, I put it on the market
and got an offer and a contract in less than two weeks! The offer was
for almost the full appraised value. My buyer and I saved because of the
lack of realtor fees.
The couple that bought our home said that they saw the sign and looked at
the Fact Sheet (you provided us thru email) and then went home and looked
at the webpage to preview before coming back the next day. The pictures
really helped in their decision.
Anyway, the couple that bought it was the best I could have hoped for to
buy OUR first home that meant so much to us.
Thank you for all your help. I wish I had your service in our new state. I
would highly recommend it to anyone selling or buying in the Birmingham
market.
Sincerely,
Mark and Laura Waggoner
PS - Our current Buyers Agent for the home we are building was impressed
with how fast we sold our home.
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SOLD - 9/2002
5.2 months
(Listing date to closing date)
$239,900/$234,500
(Asking Price/Selling
Price) |
Craig and Vicki Worley
(Listing #612)
2261 Vanessa Drive
Hoover, AL
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Pat,
ForSale-ByOwner.com sold the house. The purchasers had just started
looking at homes on the internet and found our home. E-mails facilitated
a showing, and we had a contract the next day. I have and will continue
to refer your service. Thanks again.
Craig and Vicki Worley |
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SOLD - 9/2002
5.1 months
(Listing date to closing date)
$124,900/$127,900
(Asking Price/Selling
Price) |
Elicia and Joey Bowman
(Listing #618)
191 Brookhollow
Drive
Pelham, AL
Brookhollow |
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Patrick,
We received many, many visits from prospective buyers via your web site.
The web site offered more than abundant information to people prior to
showing our house. Most questions were answered before they even called.
Thanks so much for your initial work and help.
The Bowman's
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SOLD - 8/2002
1.5 months
(Listing date to closing date)
$314,000/$308,000
(Asking Price/Selling
Price) |
Tyler and Jana Hanna
(Listing #679)
5108 Cedar Trace
LaneHoover, AL
Trace Crossings -
Park Trace
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Pat,
Thank you for helping us sell our house within 2 weeks of going up on your
web site. I will have to say that I was quite impressed with your
professionalism, courtesy, and attention to detail. Because of these
traits I selected your company to help us market our home. We were not
disappointed at all. With four couples wanting to buy our house, we were
able to get a contract and close within 6 weeks of listing the house.
I will continue to recommend your services to anyone that I know who is
going to put their house on the market. Again, thank you so much for all
of your help.
Sincerely,
Tyler Hanna
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SOLD -
8/2002
1.2 months
(Listing date to closing date) |
Dennis and Kim Dease
(Listing #712)
4612 Chablis WayBirmingham, AL
Wine Ridge
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Pat,
Thank you so much for all your help with the "for sale by owner"
process. We were stunned at the
speed
we sold our house. We had no idea it could be that quick and easy. In five
days we had a contract for our full asking price. We closed within 30 days
of being placed on your site. You can't be much quicker than that!
We are
happily settling into our new home. I have already recommended you to
several friends who are thinking of selling their home.
Thanks again for everything!
Dennis and Kim Dease
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SOLD - 8/2002
12 months
(Listing date to closing date) |
Robert and Lisa Crenshaw
(Listing #457)
22 Squires Glenn
Lane
Greystone area
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Pat,
Thanks so much for helping us sell our home. We received numerous calls
and had a great turnout of showings too, many more responses than we ever
got when it was listed with an agent. The pictures on the web were
excellent and the whole experience was very good.
We had our house on the market with a real estate agent for 5 months and
never got a reasonable offer. When we ended that contract and decided to
sell our house through Forsale-ByOwner.com we were able to drop the price
significantly from the agent-listed price and pass the savings on to
potential buyers. We got a contract less than a month after we dropped the
agent and closed in just 2 weeks!
Thanks again for all your help!
Robert and Lisa Crenshaw
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SOLD - 8/2002
1.2 months
(Listing date to closing date) |
Ralph and Joyce Cleage
(Listing #590)
4609 Summit Cove
Hoover, AL
High Point Trace |
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Pat:
Just
got our computer back on-line from moving, and wanted you to know that #590 is now officially sold! We can't thank you enough for all your help in
the "ForSale-ByOwner" process, which worked extremely well for us.
We showed the house on a regular basis for the first 4 - 6 weeks
that we had it listed with you and had two offers within 8 weeks of
listing. Everyone who came to see the house did so because of the
Internet spread, and quite frankly, we were shocked at the traffic it
generated for us.
All of our potential buyers were very complimentary of the photo display
and fact sheet, and we probably ended up steering several folks your way
as a result of our enthusiastic endorsement of your service.
This is the third time that I have said that I will never move again, but
in the event we do, you can be sure we will be calling you before we do
anything else.
Thanks again for a great service, and best wishes!
Ralph and Joyce Cleage
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SOLD - 7/2002
1.9 months
(Listing date to closing date)
$284,900/$279,900
(Asking Price/Selling
Price) |
Rick Henderson
(Listing #656)
924 Irving Road
Homewood, AL |
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Pat,
The web site was a great help. The couple that gave us the offer was from
West Palm Florida and the wife was able to see the house before she came
up on Sunday.
Thanks for all the great pictures of the house. I think it helped
tremendously.
Rick Henderson
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SOLD -
6/2002
2.7 months
(Listing date to closing date)
$154,900/$154,900
(Asking Price/Selling
Price) |
Bill and Debby Morris
(Listing #634)
1500 Secretariat
Helena, AL
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Pat,
We are extremely happy that we took the steps to sell
our house "By Owner". Not only was it a pleasant experience, but we
learned a lot and had some fun doing it.
Within a day of planting the sign in the yard we
began getting phone calls. Within five days we had two good, serious
offers. We close in a month and things are looking good.
I would recommend your service to anyone who might be
hesitating doing it on
their own. It's like the book says, "Homes sell themselves".
Thanks,
Bill and Debby Morris |
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