From: graham@nospam.steelworks.org.uk (Graham)
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Selling house without estate agent
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 20:14:26 GMT

On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 13:01:24 +0100, "dan"  wrote:

>Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately mine is the last house in the road
>in a cul de sac so I don't much passing traffic - foot or otherwise.

Our last house was at the end of a cul-de-sac. Most people driving
into the cul-de-sac, drove up to the end to turn around. After we had
given up on estate agents (the property market was dead in Stoke on
Trent) I desparately wanted to sell on the Internet, but it was the
private "For Sale" sign that did the trick.

On your "For Sale" sign, put your phone number rather than "apply
within". We had people sitting in their car outside the house calling
us on their mobile asking if they could view. I don't think we ever
got an unexpected knock on the door.

Graham
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