Monthly Archives: September 2011

Beach House Decor



Beach house decor has many exciting and fun designs that make any home a tropical paradise. There are many unique items available for every room of the house from the bathroom to the kitchen. You will find shower curtains and other accessories that portray the beach theme along with many other wonderful and exciting items.When you know how to choose the perfect accent items for your home or room, you can create a fantastic experience for yourself and your house guests.

Here are a few of the items that are available.
Wasketbaskets Beach scenic clocks Beach wall art Bedding Tapestry Throw rugs

You can use these items and add to your home in a variety of ways. The more creativity you have, the more you can do with some of the simplest decor items out there. When decorating with the beach house decor you should consider painting your rooms to match the overall theme to enhance the decor. Some of the most popular colors include light blues, greens, seafoam green, yellow, pink, sandstone and orange. Wicker furniture is also a very popular way to decorate with the theme and aquatic lighting is needed to bring the look together.

Don’t forget about the outside of your home. You can continue the theme with a decorative mailboxes, welcome signs, area lighting and metal sun art. Show your love for the sand and ocean by decorating your home with beach house d

Selling FSBO? The Three Best Places to Sell Your House Online



If you are selling your house for sale by owner, there are many places you can advertise. Get started with your FSBO marketing on these three of the top places to sell your house online.

And best of all, two out of the three places are totally free!

The first place for free FSBO marketing is Postlets.com. You can easily design a great looking online ad (a postlet) in less than 5 minutes. Print this out in color and you have a great looking information flier. You have a choice of many themes and colors to customize your postlet. It will even have a Google map showing your home’s location. You can upgrade for only $5 and turn your listing into a beautiful single property website. You will get a unique website address that you can include in your all marketing materials, too.

Once you have designed your postlet, you can post it and share it on following free online classifieds with a click of your mouse: Craigslist, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and more! You can directly email your new listing to friends. You will also send it as an attachment in your emails to prospective buyers. Print this flier to put in your brochure box. Also, keep copies of your flyers with you at all times.

There truly is no better place to start selling your house yourself than Postlets.

The second site for free FSBO marketing is Craigslist. I always have had fantastic results there. And because you can automatically post your ad from the flier and listing you created at Postlets.com it’s a piece of cake to have an eye-catching, professional quality ad.

The minor downside of Craigslist is you have to continually re-post your ads. As new ads are posted, your ad is pushed further down the list. I re-post every three days. I occasionally change the headline slightly so I don’t get “flagged”.

Sometimes I’ve been able to sell my house myself using these 2 sites spending NO money on FSBO marketing! How sweet is that?

If you are selling your house yourself, you will still probably want to get your FSBO listing on the Multiple List System for maximum exposure to buyers. You can use what is called a flat fee service to list your house without an agent. Your FSBO MLS listing will look identical to all the agent listings. The going rate is generally around $400, although I’ve seen it for $300. Or you can buy it as part of a package at some of the for sale by owner listing sites. Be sure to study the fine print with any flat fee listing service you are considering using. Some take their 3% commission out of any FSBO listing sale!

Using these three sites will get your FSBO marketing campaign well on its way. You will now be getting maximum exposure for your FSBO house for minimal cost.

Sell Your House Online – How to Do it Yourself



The present global economic situation has made it harder for homeowners to sell their homes as quickly as they would like to or need to and doubly more difficult to sell their homes as private owners. There are, however, free or low priced alternatives to selling your home by an agent if you want to sell your home yourself. One of the best ways to get your house in the public eye is to use several of the best online methods to list your house. Posting your house online will instantly allow possibly millions of viewers to see your listing and make it statistically more possible to sell your home quickly by yourself.

Here are a few techniques used by many people to successfully sell their homes online by owner.

1. eBay – eBay is a huge marketplace that allows the typical person to list just about anything online for the world to see. Selling a house on eBay is no different than selling a car, piece of furniture or jewelry. Just set up an account on eBay, take some great pics of your home, upload them to your account, decide on how you will sell your home and activate your listing! Of course, there are several elements to take into consideration before listing, such as whether or not you will sell by auction or fixed price, whether you will offer other options such as offer closing costs paid by owner, and if you will offer any other bonuses to buyers. There is much success in selling on eBay and while it is not free, it is very inexpensive to list and sell a home by owner on ebay. eBay usually charges a small fee for listing and a percentage fee for sales. Sometimes the company offers deals that are special at certain times of the year for sellers, so be on the look out for these specials. If you want a worldwide selling audience, there is no better way to get your house listed fast than through eBay.

2. YouTube – YouTube? Yes, YouTube! If you’ve ever surfed through the YouTube site, you can find various homeowners who have uploaded great video tours of their homes for sale complete with purchase information. There is no charge for using YouTube and you never know who will actually look at your listing, but the more appealing and creative you are in your listing, the better chance you have for receiving interested contacts. If you have a moderately decent quality video cam and common sense, you can produce a fun and informative selling video of your home.

3. Craigslist and other free listing sites – Craigslist is one of the most well known free listing sites available today, but of course there are several others you can use. The online and hard copy listing company, IWANA, also offers limited free listings for anyone. If you want to get your house listed online for free and fast, go to Craigslist, choose a city to list it in and upload as much information including pictures, that you wish. You will be surprised at how many contacts you may receive who are interested in your home simply by using this listing site.

These are just some of the available online sources that allow you to list homes for sale either free or with minimal cost. If you want to sell your house online, be sure to be as creative as possible in your listing, offer minor bonuses that interest buyers and think outside the box!