As to broker/agent commissons, I’m with the Piggs who stated it’s a free country. If you are a potential seller, sell FSBO! Go ahead and allow all manner of lowlifes and casers to traipse thru your property during nights and weekends (when you need to relax). If you follow them around too close, and they are “legitimate, qualified buyers,” you could easily make them uncomfortable and want to leave.

And make sure you “stage” your property properly and keep all your pets secured for as long as it takes to sell it.

No lockbox? Without a lockbox, your property will not be easy to show. Potential buyers will just flock to properties they can see NOW.

If you are able to “qualify” potential buyers first (at your kitchen table??), go ahead and call the lender they presumably applied with for a mortgage (to verify their qualifications) and see how far you get. Willing to carry paper? Try to run their credit report yourself!

Need forms? Go buy a forms kit. Don’t know how to fill them out or where to start (or which ones to use)? Too bad, so sad …. wing it!!

Uh oh . . . forgot disclosures (or don’t know which ones to use for your particular property)?? This is NOT GOOD! Better keep an (expensive) attorney chained to your ankle. Do not pass Go and do not collect $200.

And the above is all assuming you, as a seller, are NOT currently “underwater.” It’s a “minefield” out there, Piggs. I could go on …. LOL :=]