We recently completed a listing with a user named David in the Richmond, VA market. He had success using our website and has wanted to be able to tell his story of how he recently sold his house using www.justlistem.com. Just over a year ago David decided he wanted a bigger house in the Short Pump are of western Henrico county. He found the house he wanted, bought it and moved to his new home.
He figured it would be easy to sell his other home in Short Pump so he contacted a realtor who swore she would be the one to sell his home right away. His original house was empty since he moved to his new house. His Realtor said that won’t be a problem since she was sure she would list it and sell his house. 30 days went by and there were showings but zero offers. 45 days went by and the same results with no offers on his house. David was paying two mortgage payments and could not go on forever with double mortgages so he decided he would need to rent his nice house in Short Pump.
Fortunately he was able to find a very nice family that was moving to our area from South Carolina. They paid their rent on-time every month for a year, when David received the call from them in June that they intended to move-out. David considered his options wisely. He could re-rent the house to another family or take another shot at selling his house.
He determined that he would find a way to drop his price a bit if that was possible. He had pulled out his equity to use as his down payment on his new house a year ago so he had to get a certain amount in order to pay off his existing loans. After carefully considering his options he chose to cut his price a bit and the means to that end was www.justlistem.com. He found that he could eliminate the Realtor Commission and save 3% on his sale.
He listed his house at $265k using www.justlistem.com. He knew that 3% of $265k was $8500 in potential savings to get his house sold. This allowed him to price his house more aggressively this year. The end result was that David received a contract to sell his house. He is thankful for opportunity to sell it himself this year using the services of www.justlistem.com.
3 Comments
September 27, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Would like to know the area in Richmond, Virginia that a 25 year old single woman would live in. May be moving soon and will be looking at renting a condo or apartment? Please respond if you know the area well and can make recommendations. Thank You
September 27, 2009 at 8:01 pm
There are quite a few places that she will be fine. It will depend a bit on personal preferences, what are she works or goes to school in and how much she can afford. Please feel free to email me direct at jim@cheaprichmondhomes.com
October 12, 2009 at 11:19 am
I think I might know that Dave guy.