Testimonials

We have sold our homes (4 of them prior to this) before by ourselves but this experience with yourselve’s and the access that your agency profile gave us to various media – as well as you personal support, has been absolutely great.

Notwithstanding that this is a very good selling market, and that we had a great product, this has been the best selling experience we have had, As you know we have recommended you to several other potential sellers. People who came to look at our house were impressed with the level of support provided. I think the Agency Brand in front of our owner profile provided a comfort zone for any potential buyers who were perhaps unsure of how to deal with an owner direct.

We essentially had our buyer within two weeks but kept to our marketing plan of four weeks and we think it helped motivate the buyer into making a better offer, and it also focused the market into our selling time frame.

Or pointer boards have been snaffled up by another home seller. We had about six placed at various strategic road junctions and they were definitely a great marketing ploy to get people in – although they didn’t detail the house style and we had a broad range of lookers. Thank you again for your personal interest and your help.

We had thought we’d use an agent to sell our house as this is just what everyone does. However, seeing we had just bought property through a private sale which was amazing simple we had the time and spent many hours preparing the property for sale and done all the hard work thought thought we’d try selling ourselves.

From our initial decision to sell our house ourselves and finding that forsalebyowner.com.au had all our needs covered. They are efficient and extremely helpful in the whole process of listing and enquiries and during the sale.

For sale by owner had all the information on the website no hidden costs all our questions were there for us to see. As we were keen to list the property ASAP – once I had all the information and photos loaded, the property was listed within a few hours. I then wanted open house on the Saturday so they had the signs express posted to me. We had a fantastic experience and are now listing our investment property with them too.

I highly recommend the comprehensive and highly professional service the Forsalebyowner team provide. Colin and Paul really were available 24/7 as advertised and spent considerable time helping whenever I needed advice. Colin has a wealth of real estate knowledge and Paul is the guru looking after all software, photo and technical queries really quickly and well.

Our sales board looked excellent and every bit as impressive as agent boards close by. It was delivered very quickly and attracted a lot of attention from passers-by. The web site was simple to use and very easy to update. We delivered lots of postcards Colin gave us about the property around the neighbourhood while out enjoying walking our dog. Our brochure to give out at opens was colourful and informative. The FSBO process enabled us to do everything that a real estate agency could have done at a fraction of the cost.

For those who feel it may be daunting, we were pleasantly surprised by how easy the opens were to conduct and how pleasant and helpful many people were – from our accommodating and considerate tenants to developers to potential buyers. Many people were surprised and pleased to have the chance to talk with the owners directly and were openly supportive.

Quite a few took the trouble to honestly explain when our house was ‘not quite right’ for them and gave morale boosting input that we were on target with pricing and process. That FSBO worked in Balwyn shows it can work anywhere, particularly when you have Colin and Paul working with you every step of the way. Many thanks guys!

I sold our house using forsalebyowner.com.au and it was the easiest, most convenient way to sell a house and maximise the profit. No agents fees!! I had complete control over the ad on all of the websites it was posted on and could add pictures and change open times within minutes. The web site is so easy to negotiate with clear and easy to understand instructions.

I would recommend forsalebyowner to anyone, and I already have.

The contract is signed on my home, the buyer says they are approved for finance, and the building and pest inspection is done. We have 2 weeks until ‘unconditional’, 4 before settlement, but will probably settle earlier if all goes smoothly.

I am glad I chose to use “For Sale By Owner” – the whole process has been straightforward, stress free and most importantly, Successful! .. After some negative experiences with estate agents, I am glad a large chunk of my money is not wasted on commissions!

I want to thank you, yet again, for your wonderful service, all of your time, advice and support… and particularly, Thank You that it appears that my house will soon be sold!! I am Very grateful. I have already recommended your work to many people, and will continue to do so.

Hi Paul and Colin. Thank you for the help you gave me, always helpful and cheerful. You made the process very easy, let me keep control and get great results.

I might add, when i did open houses, I had many buyers congratulate me for being available, everyone enjoyed the process. Everyone should consider this service, it’s easy and enjoyable.

The best decision we made was to use For Sale By Owner to market our property. Our buyers even found the experience a more positive one, being able to talk directly to us about all aspects of our home, which an agent wouldn’t necessarily know. I have already recommended FSBO to friends – they’re a great team!

For anyone considering signing up with Forsalebyowner.com.au I would say just do it. We had previously listed with an agent, after many calls it took them over a week to just get our listing online we wasted over $2,000 in a joint online / newspaper print campaign and got a few leads and no sale.

After 8 months we cancelled our agent agreement and doing the research I found FSBO stacked up and we signed up. I will say I am glad we did, it was the best experience easy to setup at home online, the guys were available at all hours to answer our questions and to assist and get our ad listed fast – same day!!

We had total control of our listing, provided the property description, pictures and settling the important price – it was easy. One of the best parts is we could make changes to refine things whenever we liked. We took out the Essentials Plus+ listing, photo board sign and flag, and it all worked a treat. We had 5 calls in the first week, we sold the cottage at our first open and ended up with 2 cash offers. What more can I say – FSBO works!!

If you are thinking about selling your property privately and are unsure where to start like I was when we had our property passed in at auction then one thing you need to do is get it on the web. I thought it was impossible to put it on websites like realestate.com.au & domain.com.au where all the estate agents advertise until I discovered the guys at ‘forsalebyowner’.

Although it irks the agents that the private seller can do this, it is totally legitimate. They helped me through the whole process which by the way is the same software as the agents use, and within 30 minutes or so the house was up on numerous sites. I liked the idea that we had full access to edit the advertisement at any time as you get a password from the start. We had plenty of interest from the sign at the front of the property but the eventual buyer came via the ad on realestate.com.au as they were from Sydney and we live approximately 100 klms north.

I thoroughly recommend the comprehensive and professional service the Forsalebyowner.com team provide. They were priced reasonably and available 24/7 as advertised. I saved myself at least $12,000 in commissions and sold the property for a much higher price than agents valued it

I knew my property better than anyone and was the best placed person to sell it, with a little help from Colin and his team.

We initially approached the idea of a ‘for sale by owner’ with some anxiety. However, the forsalebyowner.com.au experience was excellent, with a good web site and lots of support from Colin and Paul when required.

As with any home sale; price, photography and a good write-up are important. If you do these well, you can save yourself buckets of cash – $14 000 in our case!

Listing our property on FSBO was simple with helpful guidance and promptly answered queries. We were able to take and use our own photos & our house listing appeared on same sites as if we had engaged an agent.

The whole exercise was extremely rewarding, especially as we saved thousands of dollars in agents’ fees.

Thank you so much.

We listed our property with FSBO and had a soft launch, no openings, by appointment only, then arranged openings a month later. We sold our property within 4 weeks of having openings and are very happy with the result.

The process from listing, to seeking customer support and advice from FSBO team was easy. This is the second house we have sold by ourselves and will not use a real estate again. FSBO makes the process easy and everyone who viewed our house, really liked the idea we represented ourselves and we were able to answer questions that a real estate agent couldn’t.

I strongly recommend using FSBO to sell your house. The money you save on real estate agents fees goes a long way to pay the stamp duty on your next purchase, so why not do it?

After a bad experience with an agent, we gave FSBO a try, thinking “what have we got to lose?”

We sold our home in 3 weeks, got the price we wanted and it was so easy! Nothing to lose and a whole lot of cash to gain. We would never use an agent again.

Thanks for providing the tools we needed and such great service!

Hello Colin and Paul. This is to let you know that our house has been sold and settlement was around lunch time today. The whole exercise was brilliant, many thanks to you both and the rest of the crew at fsbo.

We were offered our asking price ($417,000) three days after the listings went live, and before the open days. On the open days there were many parties who looked through, and all of them provided very favourable comment. On the first open day a second potential buyer made a higher offer ($420.000), which the first person matched, and was subsequently the first to submit a contract. Contracts were exchanged three days later. That price exceeded our expectations, so my sister and I were delighted with the result. The new buyer is ecstatic with her purchase.

When comparing our splendid photoboard with the sale boards of other agents, it was a lay-down misere. We made good use of the brochure (I laminated a few, and my sister placed them on community notice boards), and we used up all the letterbox drop cards. We appreciated the note pad, too, which we put to good use. By going with you, we saved at least $10,000, and were also able to negotiate for the new owner to purchase some of the furniture, which also saved time and money. We couldn’t be happier.

Our solicitor (who detests real estate agents) was also delighted with our success, and she has written down your details in her own notebook to give to other clients who decide to sell their own homes. We have told lots of people about fsbo, so you’ve got some good advertising from us!

I cannot believe how easy it was and trouble free the process is. I sold my property within 1 week and had multiple offers. I feel that your assistance helped me achieve the maximum price within the market.

This process for me was exciting, enjoyable and I can’t wait to do it again. If you’re keen to put in a little bit of effort then I strongly recommend forsalebyowner.com.au

Just letting you know the settlement on our property has been finlized and it sold in 2 months.

I am very pleased with the results of your web system as it allowed us to sell our property ourselves, saving $10,000

The exposure on realestate.com.au was great and it got a buyer quickly. It was good to have control of the sale and not to have to bend to land agents ideas and demands. I would recommend your company to anyone!

Highly recommend forsalebyowner.com.au, we successful sold our house in under 2 months.

My husband and I work very long hours and the thought of having open inspection when it suited real estate agents was not appealing. With selling ourselves it allowed us to speak to the perceptive buyers and really find out the information we wanted to know before having them come through the home. This allowed us to have a high quality of people view our home, which resulted in a successful sale and we were able to negotiate a good deal for both parties.

Would definitely use forsalebyowner.com.au again.

Good news, we managed to close our sale for 312/22 Charles St, at $471K. Some stats: 6 open inspections over 8 weeks, 30 visitors, about 60 email enquiries.

We did not do any additional marketing other than using your A4 Flyer for hand-outs during inspections. Having our hi-quality photos to upload helped create an attractive listing. We also piggy backed off of other units for sale in the same building, with similar inspection times. We made sure to meticulously clean before every showing, which I believe set us apart from other units for sale in the building. Plus we were flexible on price not having full agency costs.

This relatively quick sale allowed us to purchase our next home and coordinate a simultaneous settlement. In my opinion, your FSBO service trumps all the other self-serve options at least for the Sydney market which we are in.

We decided to list our property about a week prior to Christmas and were absolutely amazed at the efforts made by FOR SALE BY OWNER to meet the pending deadline with the sign company and the help they gave us with our website listing. They made what most people may think as daunting so very easy and simple.

Our emails or calls were ALWAYS answered immediately, something that is very rare these days! I even emailed on Christmas day, expecting to get a response once business resumed after the Christmas break and was gobsmacked to get a reply within half an hour!

Their assistance with the entire process was brilliant and we are now happy vendors, with our home selling in just a few weeks and fetching way more than the agents had quoted. Thank you so much Colin and Paul. We will definitely sell through your company again in the future and cannot recommend you highly enough! Way easier than anyone thinks!