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What it Costs a Homeowner to Sell Their House without a REALTOR®

March 14th, 2008 categories: For Buyers, For Sellers, Lake Tahoe NV Statistics, Lake Tahoe Real Estate, South Lake Tahoe Statistics

We make more more selling a house than an owner does... most of the time!The National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) says its $31,800.

Because some NAR stats come out every two years, we suspect there will be an update on this information soon, but at last report the NAR cites that the average seller who uses a real estate professional makes 16 percent more on the sale of their home than do sellers who go it alone.

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The truth is real estate professionals do a lot more for a seller than just make a transaction go easier. We could write a book on the things we do as professionals to help both sellers and buyers. In fact many already have.

There's more we do than make more money too. There are many details and specific things that we do to help a family with a home, but normally the varied things we do fall into broader concepts such as saving time, reducing stress, making more money and reducing risk of liability and litigation.

When it comes to how much more money a real estate professional gets for selling a house, we don’t know for sure how much more that is here in South Lake Tahoe. Sometimes it is a lot more, and we will be specific about that with examples in two of the three articles to follow.

There are times too, when we get only a little more than an owner could, and also times we suspect when we probably get about the same. What we are saying here is there is no way one can prove, or disprove on average how much more, or less, we get for a sale than what the NAR reports. Overall, we just know it is more.

In all cases though, we do save stress, time and substantially limit risk, all of which have value.

Here is an article from the NAR about this, and because it was presented in a public forum, there is naturally much debate, all of which is found in comments that follow the article.

We thought it would be interesting and helpful to you to read the discussion in its entirety. It was a most interesting read for us.

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