{"id":17782,"date":"2011-08-11T15:23:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T19:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewm.com\/internalblog\/?p=17782"},"modified":"2011-08-11T15:23:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T19:23:18","slug":"forsalebyowner-com-founder-uses-agent-to-sell-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/?p=17782","title":{"rendered":"ForSalebyOwner.com founder uses agent to sell home"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Don\u2019t just price a listing \u2013 position it<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2013 Aug. 10, 2011 \u2013 The founder of ForSalebyOwner.com, a popular for-sale by owner (FSBO) website, used a real estate broker to help sell his 2,000-square-foot, two-bedroom New York apartment after it lingered on the market for six months.<\/p>\n<p>Colby Sambrotto, founder and former chief operating officer of ForSalebyOwner.com, tried to sell the property FSBO by listing it online and through classified ads \u2013 but after six months of sitting on the market, he sought the help of a real estate broker.<\/p>\n<p>Broker Jesse Buckler told Sambrotto the condo was priced too low and wasn\u2019t attracting the right buyer for the condo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt first he wouldn\u2019t let me increase the price,\u201d Buckler said. \u201cI told him I know what I am doing \u2013 the market is picking up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The condo soon attracted multiple offers and ended up closing for $150,000 more than the original asking price.<\/p>\n<p>Source: \u201cDIY Guru Gets Broker Help,\u201d The Wall Street Journal (Aug. 3, 2011)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Copyright 2011 INFORMATION, INC. Bethesda, MD (301) 215-4688<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t just price a listing \u2013 position it NEW YORK \u2013 Aug. 10, 2011 \u2013 The founder of ForSalebyOwner.com, a popular for-sale by owner (FSBO) website, used a real estate broker to help sell his 2,000-square-foot, two-bedroom New York apartment after it lingered on the market for six months. Colby Sambrotto, founder and former chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}