First, you try to sell your home on your own by placing a "By Owner" sign on your front lawn, but after a month you've only had a few prospects that led nowhere. At this point you decide to list your home with a professional RealtorŪ.

You discover that the agent doesn't do things the way you did. Trying to be business oriented you ran an advertisement in the classifieds every weekend, but your RealtorŪ has only done so twice in the first month that you've had the property listed, but you notice that since you've transferred over, your home is seeing a lot more action than you saw.

Your professional RealtorŪ is able to use many powerful tools that most individuals are not able to use, such as national and worldwide referral networks and the Multiple Listing Service. RealtorsŪ advertise many homes that might result in a telephone call from persons interested in buying your home. They work together in many aspects of business with other RealtorsŪ.

Although you are only listing with one RealtorŪ, they make your home available to other agents, thus allowing effective tools to be used by many people to make it easier to sell your home for you.