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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

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


 

            

SOLD - 12/2002
4.9 months

(Listing date to closing date)
Ray Hilyer
(Listing #723)

2555 Elizabeth Drive

Pelham, AL

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


 

            

SOLD - 11/2002
3.5 months
(Listing date to closing date)
Jeff Shanks
(Listing #724)

183 Hidden Cove Circle

Pelham, AL

Hidden Creek

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


 

            

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

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


 

            

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

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


 

            

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

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


 

            

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 Drive

Calera, AL

Camden Cove

Calera/Montevallo

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.


 

            

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
Altadena Woods

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


 

            

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

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


 

            

   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 Lane

Hoover, AL

Trace Crossings - Park Trace

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


 

            

SOLD - 8/2002
1.2 months
(Listing date to closing date)
Dennis and Kim Dease  
(Listing #712)
4612 Chablis Way

Birmingham, AL

Wine Ridge

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


 

            

SOLD - 8/2002
12 months
(Listing date to closing date)
Robert and Lisa Crenshaw  (Listing #457)
22 Squires Glenn Lane

Greystone area

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


 

            

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

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                                                                                                                   


 

            

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

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                                                                                                   


 

            

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
Dearing Downs

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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