Should You Sell Your Home Yourself?Written by Sameer S Panjwani
Continued from page 1 agent would be entitled to a full commission. This type of listing would also have agent put your property on MLS (Multiple Listing Service). The other side to this listing arrangement is that, if you find a buyer yourself, you don’t have to pay any commission to your agent! So, answer to yes and no lies in going for an Exclusive Agency Listing. You would be keeping option open of finding a buyer yourself, through Internet listings of your home, while on other hand, should your listing agent find you a buyer, you would have to pay commission but you’re getting your home sold in process.So where should you advertise and list your home? There are plenty of websites which offer to list your property. Two well-known and frequently visited sites are ChoiceOfHomes.com and ForSaleByOwner.com. I suggest not listing on only one but listing on at least a couple of these sites, if not more. It doesn’t cost much and especially when you consider money you’d save in commissions from finding a buyer through these sources. Happy Home Selling!

Sameer S Panjwani is the CEO and Founder of ChoiceOfHomes.com - Real estate listings of homes on sale and rent.
| | How To Save Thousands In Interest On Your Home MortgageWritten by Sameer S Panjwani
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An illustration to show what we mean - Suppose you were to go in for a mortgage of $150,000 for a term of 360 months at an interest rate of 6%, your monthly payment would work out to $899.93 and your total interest through out tenure of loan would work out to $173,757. Now consider same mortgage taken on a bi-weekly payment plan. Your bi-weekly payments would be of $449.67 while your total interest for entire tenure would work out to only $135,294 + you end up completing loan in 24 years instead of 30. Huge difference! The savings from such a payment plan are huge and are worth considering if you can afford to make payments every two weeks. At least, keep it as an option!

Sameer S Panjwani is the CEO and Founder of ChoiceOfHomes.com - Real estate listings of homes on sale and rent.
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