It’s been my general experience that most folks that choose to sell for sale by owner (FSBO, pronounced fizz-bo) are nice folks. BUT if you are a real estate agent and spend any time on online forums, you can’t help but feel the anger by some folks against real estate agents.
Some have had a bad experience with an agent and generalize these characteristics to all agents. Some just think the profession of a real estate agent is filled with uneducated morons. Either way…I was inspired by a post on a forum by a FSBO, who clearly detests agents, to write a little song for FSBO’s who try to to sell real estate on their own here in Salem Oregon.
To the tune of Home on the Range…
Oh, give me a home where the agents don’t roam
And sellers can give their own showing.
When agents see the white sign and they can’t read the line
they stay in their car and keep going.
Sell, sell on my own
And the buyers and sellers will play
Where seldom is heard that commission-ing word
And the houses sell after 1 day.
How often I love, to give agents a fright
When they leave me their business card.
How I yell and I glare, until they’re all aware
Selling FSBO (Fizz-bo) ain’t all that hard.
Sell, sell on my own
’cause the sellers can sell on the net
Where seldom is heard that commission-ing word
and buyers and have sellers have met.
Where I set my own price, without any advice
and agents don’t get in the way
I would not bemoan to sell my home on my own
with no agents for sellers to pay.
Sell, sell on my own
And the buyers and sellers will play
Where seldom is heard that commission-ing word
And the houses sell after 10 days.
Oh, I love to start talks, ‘fore that new buyer walks
I know I can work out a deal.
Those agents butt in and sellers can’t win
Cause they only care ’bout their next meal.
Sell, sell on my own
’cause I want to do it my way.
Where seldom is heard that commission-ing word
And the houses sell in ‘hundred days
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