The Insider's Guide To Selling Your Home By Owner- Rocio Fausto I | Page 125

mind.
If you have a signed contract, then you can hold their feet to
the fire. If not, then they walk and you have to sell your house all
over again.

This isn't to say that you can't
sell your house yourself.
You probably can. But, unless you have sold a lot of homes
yourself, then you probably aren't set up as well as a professional
Realtor is. Does that make sense?

Reason #3: A good Realtor can
save 80-100 hours of your time.
That is because we handle all of the work for you. We are
experts at financing, loan conditions, home inspections, surveys,
title work, termite inspections, appraisals, negotiating, etc.
Some people have estimated that there are 189-213 different
things that an agent does to sell a home.
That list is shorter or longer, depending on the property. I
haven't familiarized myself with every item on that list. But, I do
know from personal experience that selling a home does take a lot
of time.

Reason #4: We solve problems.
That is the most important thing a Realtor can do. After all,
it's one thing to have a buyer that wants to buy your house. But,
just because they decide at that moment to buy a house doesn't
mean they will.

Here is a story that illustrates this perfectly.
A seller put her home on the market. The perfect buyer
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