It’s funny that so many people say you don’t need a realtor to sell your home. Hell, you don’t need a plumber to repair broken sewer lines, or an electrician to rewire a house, don’t really need a roofer to replace shingles after a storm, you probably don’t need a dentist to pull your tooth, and nobody talks about how much those professions make. In the grand scheme of things, paying a realtor saves you the headache of showings, dealing with a buyer that wants to back out, or can’t secure financing, or demands everything on the inspection report be fixed. What’s even more fun is when they offer XXX over asking and then the home doesn’t appraise for that price. A title company won’t help you with those issues, that not their forte and not what they are being paid to handle.

There was approximately 112,000 homes sold in DFW last year. Approximately 45,000 of those were new construction. Let’s take a half those and say 22,000 didn’t use a realtor for those homes. So that leaves 90,000 homes sold by roughly 25,000 DFW area realtors. That’s 3.6 homes on average. The average price per home last year was around $400,000 and 3% of that goes to the brokerage, so $12,000, and then the broker gets his cut and the realtor gets theirs. Let’s say the realtor gets 100% of the $12,000, times 3.6 homes, that’s a whopping $43,200. So to erroneously say 3% is too much, or realtors make too much money, you need to consider that they also are self employed and have to pay for fuel, health insurance, association dues, advertising, and all the other unseen charges that go along with selling homes.

There are cheap realtors that aren’t good, there are good realtors that aren’t cheap.

You and Shane are neighbors.

You can do it easily without a realtor. Ask what you want for sale price, I'm not giving anyone 12-15k, to a realtor period!
Who cares what comps or appraiser says. Just tell buyer you don't have to sell and he/she has to come up with difference to buy, if they back out just wait, a Kalifornia buyer will be along shortly.

Trust me.

No staging, meeting people during odd hours, it's a: cake walk. You negotiate and be honest. The buyer will do what it takes to get a home in your neighborhood, trust me I know.

Waterfront, pool, about 1000sqft bigger closed at $625k less than a month ago. Less than a mile away. Might want to have a pro run your comps.

Pay the 6% and the right realtor will make you more money in the long run than trying to do it yourself.

I have sold 3 homes by myself. It's easy. The way the market is and our neighborhood your at more of an advantage than ever, make the showings on your time and the buyer also will do all of the paperwork.

Just go to Lowes and buy a for sale sign and put your cell phone on the sign and put it in front yard. It will spread like wildfire and sell.

It is truly that easy.

Waterfront, pool, about 1000sqft bigger closed at $625k less than a month ago. Less than a mile away. Might want to have a pro run your comps.

If you’re talking about the home on Westwood, it didn’t sell for $625,000, that was list price, it also didn’t sell for above list price, it sold for $590,000.

If being a realtor is so easy, they don't have to do nothing and they get so over paid, why you be in the roofing business? Maybe you missed your mark.

Have done a lil' bit with R/E over the years. Have purchased without a realtor, but never sold without one. I would think about it if knowing the purchaser or if I were to solicit the purchaser, but would never do one on an arm's length transaction where I do not know the people.