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Hi Murray,
We just took our Perth house off the market having had it with forsalebyowner.com.au
This cost about $900 or so & also posted the property on Domain.com.au & Realestate.com.au
No fault of forsalebyowner, but just a lousy market at present. We only had 3 enquiries during the whole 12 months from which only one couple viewed & they made a stupid offer. We also had two walk in's from the foresalebyowner sign on the front fence.
One thing I did notice was that Domain have a widget on their site that allows prospective buyers to value the property by street address. We found this under valued ours by about $200,000 to $300,000 as it did not take into account the riverfront water location, but just the general average property sales in the shire area which is huge.
So we are going to renovate the bathrooms/kitchen, enjoy it for a few years as a weekender & then hopefully sell it off. At present it is just withdrawn from foresalebyowner, so can be reactivated in a certain time frame.
You can also get all the forms from your local Real Estate Institute (REIWA in WA), these include acceptance & offer forms etc, for just a nominal fee. We would also have used a settlement agent for the final contracts, & had several leave flyers in our letterbox once the foresale sign went up.
It will save you $10's of thousands but will require a little work especially if you want to have home opens - which we didn't. Also consider staging, which is having nice furniture, no clutter, personal pictures on walls. There are companies that will do this for you on a rental basis. We decided to buy our own lounge suite, dinning set, & bedroom furniture as it worked out cheaper in the end than rental staging for 6 months. Wish you luck.
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