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Treasure Coast Real Estate Why do most people try the For Sale By Owner route? five percent of buyers will still use a Realtor to purchase a
Report They are hoping to save paying a real estate sales commission. home, including those that are For Sale By Owner. Although
I completely understand.
you may wish to sell what is likely your largest asset yourself,
Should you be considering this method of selling your most buyers don’t want to make such a purchase without help.
For Sale By Owner (FSBO) Can Work! home, there are several things to keep in mind. If you are In fact, Zillow and Trulia make their money by selling
By Jim Weix presently using Zillow and Trulia to sell your home, you may advertisements to Realtors for your property. If you look
Before becoming a Realtor, have already discovered these things. at the “public view” of your property listing, you will see
I sold several of my homes When you first put your home on Zillow and Trulia, you Realtors ads listed in color above your phone number, which
myself. I had always been in will be inundated with offers to sell now for cash. Realtors is in a light gray. Zillow and Trulia don’t make any money
sales, so I figured that I was will send you offers to put your home in the Multiple Listing by allowing you to list your home for free.
capable of selling my home as Service (MLS) for $75. Knowing these things will help you avoid any surprises,
a For Sale By Owner (FSBO). Ignore the offers to buy your home for cash now. These so give it a try. But what if, after a couple of months, your
Back then I was limited are from people that want to buy for way below what your home is not selling?
to newspaper classified home is worth. Worse yet, they may be from scammers. Just One solution might be to contact a Realtor about doing an
advertising. Today, however, recently an elderly woman in Port Saint Lucie almost lost “Exclusive Brokerage Listing Agreement.” This is similar to
sellers have the advantage her home to a so-called real estate investor. a regular listing agreement, except that you reserve the right
of getting a much larger Disregard the offers to put your home in the Multiple to procure a buyer and not pay a sales commission. This will
exposure. They can list their home on Zillow and Trulia for Listing Service (MLS) for $75. There are a lot of drawbacks allow your home to be on the Multiple Listing Service (MLS)
free. This gives them national exposure on two of the most to this type of offer. plus dozens of sites, like Realtor.com, that don’t allow For
popular real estate Internet sites. Plan on probably paying a real estate commission. Eighty- Sale By Owner properties. Yet you can still have it For Sale
By Owner. Some sellers will list their home with a Realtor for
say $275,000, but have it For Sale By Owner for $250,000.
busIness spoTlIgHT explore them.
Sellers have a lot of options, so you may want to
Jim Weix is a Broker Associate with The Keyes Company.
Jim has 24 years of experience selling real estate full time.
Palm City Farms Produce under sweeping porches is like a visit back to an earlier time If you have questions or want the services of an experienced
where food tastes the way you remember and service comes
expert, you can reach Jim at (772) 341-2941 or jimweix@
And Market with a smile. jimweix.com.
Owner Rob Dawson, a graduate of Martin County schools,
There’s a new farmers’ market in Palm City that’s changing IRSC, and Leadership Martin, explains, “My family owned Answer for
the way we eat and grow food. this property my whole life. So, when commercial realtors
Palm City Farms Produce and Market is a family-owned started calling, we had a decision to make. Let them turn it Crossword Puzzle
produce market specializing in fresh and local foods – plus into a truck stop or create something ourselves that supports
items you can’t find in supermarkets, such as local beef and the rural character of the Palm City Farms community.”
pork, organic olive oils, heritage-hog bacon, Everglades A food-lover at heart, he chose to support the community by
Seasonings, and fried-green-tomato breading. selling locally-grown food. It tastes better, it’s more nutritious,
Just west of the turnpike on the corner of S.W. Martin and it’s not subject to safety and security problems that plague
Highway (SR-714) and S.W. Citrus Boulevard, shopping in modern factory farming.
this red barn-like building with rocking chairs and café tables “We’re not all local yet,” Dawson continues. “Our small
farmers didn’t have a place to sell before. But we buy as
much as we can from them. It’s what our customers want.
Everybody wins.”
Dawson believes greenhouses are the future. They harvest
year-round and produce more food per acre using fewer
chemicals. To demonstrate this, he gave a local nonprofit,
House of Hope, land next to the market to grow for market
and their needy clients.
Their first harvests should be available in the market soon.
So, if you’re hungry for something fresh and local … come
out to Palm City Farms Produce and Market, only minutes
from downtown Palm City at 3706 S.W. Citrus Boulevard.
Contact them on Facebook or (772) 888-3103.

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