[Sylvanfan]

Or something similar?

I want to sell my house in St.Albert and move. Just debating if it's worth the risk to try it with a service like Comfree or something similar? I'm not sure what real estate commissions are St.Albert, but in Sylvan Lake they were 6% on the first 100k and 3% on the balance. With the recent spike in house prices that would see me pay someone $15,000 to sell my house for $400k. Now thats a pretty big chunk of change considering thats tax free money. Comfree I believe costs around $700 to list and keep the place listed for like 90 days or something like that.

Right now I have a couple of other houses in the area for sale, both are severely overpriced in my opinion, and one is a Comfree house. I'm in no major rush to sell, so If I have to wait 90 days to get a sale I can do that. My mother in law is a former realtor (as was my father) so she can always give showing advice and help with paperwork etc...

I also watch real estate prices quite closely, and have a fair amount of information to use when it comes to setting a price such as average selling price per square foot, how much recent houses have sold for, and what other houses around are listed for.

Has anyone else tried a service like this? My biggest worry would be that you'll get a lot of people who aren't really serious buyers trying to scoop discounts wasting my time and annoying me coming through, as opposed to the more qualified serious buyers that realtors would bring.

I should add that I wouldn't mind paying a realtor...but really I think offering like 8k to sell the house would be fair on my part. I don't need it advertised on T.V. or in papers or at the mall. If a buyer is serious they'll tell a realtor what they want and the realtor can get the info off MLS. Afterall my house is probalby going to be one of the lowest priced houses in my neighbourhood, and that itself will make it attractive. My next door neighbour sold his house in 20 hours mostly because his place was the least expensive one around.