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Ed and Brenda Sand (Closed on the sale of their home April 2013)
Wow! We listed our property on March 3 and closed on April 2. We signed a contract in only 6 days.
The quality of the service by Billings by Owner is first rate. The signs are new and distinctive. Matt is picky about getting the sign up and in the correct spot. You also get smaller "open house" and "for sale" signs.
From the website you can print out a brochure for your listing which is very handy. We just went down to the copy store and opened the site on their computer and printed out brochures on glossy paper to put in the display box.
During last month there were 18-24 homes pending on the BillingsByOwner website! It would be difficult to find fault with that kind of success.
Thanks BillingsByOwner for the good experience. Your attention to detail made the difference.
Ed and Brenda Sand
Brenda and Ed Sand
2837 Belvedere Drive, Billings MT
Sarah Dolan (Closed on the sale of her home March 2013)
Billings by Owner was amazing to work with. They were prompt and courteous every time I needed something or when I had a question. I would definitely recommend Billings by Owner.
Sarah Dolan
Sarah Dolan
828 Cook Avenue, Billings MT
Cassidy Rogers (Closed on the sale of her home March 2013)
Billings By Owner is a fantastic site! The customer service was fabulous and prompt and I got a cash offer on my townhouse in 3 weeks! Matt was very helpful and answered all of my questions. I would recommend this site to anyone.
Cassidy Rogers
Cassidy Rogers
2404 Howard Avenue, Billings MT
Barb Harrold (Closed on the sale of her home March 2013)
Using BillingsByOwner was so slick! I listed the first of the year and closed within 2 months! I was out of state but there were no problems with details (signage, etc)…it was seamless. I am so pleased and recommend this service highly.
Barb Harrold
Barb Harrold
628 Yellowstone Ave, Billings MT
Rebecca Drake (Closed on the sale of her home March 2013
I highly recommend using this invaluable service. I received a full price offer 8 days after the sign went up and closed in less than 4 weeks. All in all, I saved over $12,000. A word of warning however: be ready to move! The process may take a much shorter time than you expect!
Rebecca Drake, President
Drake and Associates
Rebecca Drake
2007 Ash Street, Billings MT
Tara and Shane Meyers (Closed on the sale of home February 2013)
I have nothing but positive feedback to Matt and his team at BillingsByOwner. We saved thousands of dollars by listing on the billingsbyowner website. The profit we have earned from our recent sold property will cover our down payment and closing costs for the new home we are building. We never paid a dime for advertising because BillingsByOwner provides a lot of advertisements already throughout Billings, providing a lot of exposure to potential buyers. We accepted an offer in less than three months of listing our home. I would whole-heartedly recommend BillingsByOwner to anyone selling their home- the process could not have been easier.
Forever Customers,
Tara & Shane Meyers
Tara and Shane Meyers
1624 Wyoming Ave., Billings MT
Mike and Rosalind Winchell (Closed on the sale of their home December 2012)
Thank you for helping us sell our home. Selling/buying a home is a little overwhelming but Matt made the process so much easier. He answered our many questions - from staging our home to helping with the paperwork.
We listed our home at billingsbyowner.com on a Saturday and had an open house the next day. We didn’t advertise anywhere except for the website and to our surprise had 5 people stop by. Monday morning we had an offer and by Tuesday we had sold our home. What a whirlwind!!!
Obviously, many people are searching the web for houses for sale. It saved us a lot of money by using this service. The website is very user friendly, the signs look great and the customer service is fabulous.
Thanks again,
Mike & Rosalind Winchell
Mike and Rosalind Winchell
2033 Concord Drive, Billings MT
Janese Carstens (Closed on the sale of her home January 2013)
As a first time seller, it seemed risky trying to sell on my own using BillingsByOwner.com. I figured that I would try it on my own first. The best advice I was given from BillingsByOwner.com when starting this process was "Selling your property is your only focus right now." They were right. I looked at other testimonials of homes that sold quickly and saw a common theme - multiple Open Houses. My property was for sale for 22 days before accepting the right offer. Within those 22 days, I had 10 Open Houses scheduled and four private showings. BillingsByOwner staff is very helpful and knowledgeable about the process. My advice would be to read and know what you're getting into before you list as there are some who will want to take advantage of your assumed lack of knowledge regarding the real estate profession. The website has great links for information that are useful and the staff can give you Montana-specific information as well. It was worth the initial investment. Best of luck to all who try it!
Janese Carstens
567 Kilarney Street, Billings MT
Jacque Rouse (Closed on the sale of her home November 2012)
Thank you for your service and website. The website is very user friendly and comprehensive. I used the links to print a legal buy/sell. Instead of $6,000 for a realtor I spent about $325! I was skeptical at first but they were always available to answer questions and everything is on the website. I would definitely recommend using Billingsbyowner.com.
Thank you,
Jacque Rouse
Jacque Rouse
5912 Far View Drive, Billings MT
Scott West (Closed on the sale of their home October 2012)
I would like to say thank you to Matt at www.billingsbyowner.com for offering this great service. My wife sold her home back in 2010 using this website and had a great experience so I decided to go the same route. We listed my home the end of May and it was sold by the end of summer. The tools provided are top notch and the website is very user friendly. I was pleased with the option to add the home to the MLS listing. It is an excellent tool at a reasonable price. We will definitely suggest your business for anyone interested in selling their home.
Scott West
1515 Dublin St.
Scott West
1515 Dublin Street, Billings MT
Robert and Tera Goode (Closed on the sale of their home September 2012
At first when we listed our home in mid June 2012 we weren't thinking we would get many lookers without it being on MLS and having no Realtor. So we decided to give it a try for the $249.00 and at least get some advertising on the property so that it was known it was for sale. We printed out flyers weekly and they were gone by the end of the week - so we knew people were looking at the property and interested in a home purchase and the website!
As we moved forward and just let the advertising on Billingsbyowner.com and the flyers on the sign at our home take toll, we were suddenly getting calls for showings! I was amazed/shocked and very thrilled that our $249.00 package that we had purchased was working to show our property. Not knowing what was going to be next, we just stuck to our $249.00 package and kept showing our home!
In mid August we found a couple that was really interested and put an offer on the property to be SOLD in September 2012! The process was easy and very inexpensive. Billingsbyowner.com definately has the customer and potential customer hits on their website and helped us to sell our home with out a big fee added. We saved well over $6,000.00 for ourselves!
Thank you Matt for providing this service to the Billings area!
Robert and Tera Goode
Robert and Tera Goode
1425 King George Street, Billings MT
Just and Jamie (Closed on the sale of their home May 2012)
When we decided to sell our house we looked at multiple ways of selling quickly and efficiently. We decided to try our luck with BillingsByOwner and with the price set right, it took one open house and less than two weeks to get a solid offer. Thanks so much to BillingsByOwner. Not only was it easy to use, but saved us a lot of money!
You guys are awesome!
Just and Jamie
Just and Jamie
3759 Slalom Drive, Billings MT
Thomas J. Grimm, P.E. (Closed on the sale of their home May 2012)
When my wife and I decided to sell our house, we considered our options of selling ourselves versus enlisting the assistance of a realtor. Matt and Billingsbyowner.com made it easy. We were able to list the house quickly, and have instant signs and brochures. We were able to discount the price of the home because of the savings on realtor commission and we sold the home in two quick weeks. My wife and I were able to relax and focus on our move.
Thanks Billingsbyowner.com
Thomas J. Grimm, P.E.
Thomas J. Grimm
3010 Brentwood Lane, Billings MT
Patrick and Sarah Parker (Closed on the sale of their home January 2012)
I have to admit we were extremely skeptical of trying to sell our cabin on BillingsByOwner.com....especially considering it was technically a Columbus property. We had tried the Realtor route, flyers, craigslist, etc. and nothing panned out. The selling process in this economy is difficult so we decided to take the plunge and try the services of BillingsByOwner.com. The exposure and interest we generated from doing that was pretty incredible. Within the first few hours we received about a dozen emails inquiring about our cabin and we ended up finding a couple of buyers. The process was pretty simple and straight-forward and inexpensive. This website certainly has a following and we are very happy customers. Thanks a ton!
Patrick and Sarah Parker
Patrick and Sarah Parker
60 E Shane Creek Rd Columbus, MT
Michele and Dave S. (Closed on the sale of their home January 2012)
What a fantastic service! We had an offer on our home after 12 weeks of listing on your web site and using Sam for the Flat-Fee-MLS service. We saved over $5,000 by selling our home using your FSBO service!
Thank you,
Michele & Dave S.
Michele and Dave S.
Brandon Rogge (Closed on the sale of his home October 2010)
Matt,Thank you for this service because of it we signed a buy / sell agreement today and have a closing date scheduled for Oct. 1. I think this is a great service and will refer all of my friends.
Thanks Again,
Brandon Rogge
Brandon Rogge
442 Greenspring Place
Patrick and Sarah Parker (Closed on the sale of their home February 2012)
I have to admit we were extremely skeptical of trying to sell our cabin on BillingsByOwner.com....especially considering it was technically a Columbus property. We had tried the Realtor route, flyers, craigslist, etc. and nothing panned out. The selling process in this economy is difficult so we decided to take the plunge and try the services of BillingsByOwner.com. The exposure and interest we generated from doing that was pretty incredible. Within the first few hours we received about a dozen emails inquiring about our cabin and we ended up finding a couple of buyers. The process was pretty simple and straight-forward and inexpensive. This website certainly has a following and we are very happy customers. Thanks a ton!
Patrick and Sarah Parker
Patrick and Sarah Parker
Michele and Dave (Closed on the sale of their home January 2012)
What a fantastic service! We had an offer on our home after 12 weeks of listing on your web site and using Sam for the Flat-Fee-MLS service.
We saved over $5,000 by selling our home using your FSBO service!
Thank you,
Michele & Dave S.
Michele and Dave S.
Linda Dahnke (Closed on the sale of their home November 2011)
Thanks so much to Matt, Sam Rankin and Billings By Owner. We were so happy with our experience and especially the service we received. Since we had limited knowledge of real estate, we had allot of questions. Matt and Sam were so helpful and spent allot of time answering all of our questions. They returned e-mails and phone calls promptly and really made this a very comfortable experience for us. Sam Rankin was amazingly helpful to us and he went above and beyond to help us out.
Our house sold quickly and I would highly recommend this service to anyone who is selling a house.
Linda Dahnke
Linda Dahnke
2015 Ave B Billings, MT
Bill and Betty Hart (Closed on the sale of their home October 2011)
An outstanding website. User friendly for both seller and those looking for property. No need to hesitate to sell your own home Matt provides a very professional service.
In this challenging market “BillingsByOwner” is a very wise choice.
Bill and Betty Hart 2227 Fairway, Billlings, MT
Bill and Betty Hart
2227 Fairway, Billings MT
Kim Johnson (Closed on the sale of their home September 2011)
Matt's website is very easy to use for setting up a property listing. I was amazed at the number of views we received in the first few hours our listing was posted. All inquiries to our listing were legit, and we had very few additional questions on our listing.
Would I use this service again? You bet!
Thanks Matt for the help in selling our home.
Kim Johnson
Brian and Jenny Anderson (Closed on the sale of their home March 2011)
Dear Matt,
My wife and I would like to thank you for your help in selling our home. Your service, website, and additional signs helped us to receive multiple offers in a couple of weeks and have a signed buy sell shortly thereafter.
Thank you very much,
Brian and Jenny Anderson
Brian and Jenny Anderson
1035 11th Avenue Laurel, MT
Peggy O'Leary (Closed on the sale of their home June 2011)
Matt's website is very easy to use for setting up a property listing. I was amazed at the number of views we received in the first few hours our listing was posted. All inquiries to our listing were legit, and we had very few additional questions on our listing. Would I use this service again? You bet! Thanks Matt for the help in selling our home.
Peggy O'Leary
4565 Pine Cove
Ted & Vernice Hammond (Closed on the sale of their home June 2011)
Billings For Sale by Owner was a breeze to use. We set up our account online and they were there with a For Sale sign right away. We had a buy/sell agreement in 3 weeks and closed shortly there after. It was truly a very easy process with their help. I would recommend their service to everyone. We saved so much money. And who doesn't want to do that!
Ted & Vernice Hammon
1512 Howard Avenue
Willy & Shay Maxwell (Closed on the sale of their home December 2010)
We just wanted to thank Matt for all his help with selling our house.
Billingsbyowner is much cheaper than using a Realtor and just as effective. The people of Billings know to look there. The web site is very user friendly and makes your house very visible to people interested in buying. Matt is very easy to talk with and very good at answering all of our questions. I would not hesitate to use www.billingsbyowner.com again. We sold our house is under a week. It was amazing!!!!!
Willy & Shay Maxwell
1739 Maurine St
Tony & Jamie Pluhar (Closed on the sale of their home December 2010)
I want to thank Billings By Owner for assistance in selling my home in less than 3 weeks. I chose to have the additional listing on the realtors site which ultimately resulted in the sale and saved half a sales commission. The staff at BBO was responsive and helpful. I would recommend them to anyone.
Shari Pullar
Tony & Jamie Pluhar
3721 Cambridge Place
Susan Mattson (Closed on the sale of her home November 2010)
We just had our first experience selling our home without a Realtor. We were more than happy with the service BillingsByOwner.com provides.
We were pleased with the prominent size of the signs, and that they were put up promptly. We like the fact that enough advertising is being done that people in Billings know about Billings By Owner and check the website. We liked the ease of posting the listing and pictures, making changes, and adding open houses at any time. Mostly we like the fact that our house was viewed online 1,000 times and that Matt provides this service at a very fair price! We closed on our home three months after the For Sale sign went up!
Susan Mattson
Susan Mattson
341 Burlington Avenue
Rebecca Rhodes (Closed on the sale of her home August 2010)
‘Thank you’ can barely cover my gratitude to BillingsByOwner.com. I placed my home on the website February 2010 and my house sold/closed in August 2010. Many of my perspective buyers found my home online and called for a showing. The new owners found the BillingsByOwner.com sign in my yard and called to take a walk through. The tools that you provide are state of the art: yard signs, accessible/user friendly website, and one call customer service are impressive. The fee for this type of service would be tough for anyone else to beat.
Thank you for such a great experience.
Rebecca Rhodes
Rebecca Rhodes
25 Almadin Lane
Cathryn Grider (Closed on the sale of her property May 2010)
We had a wonderful experience with BillingsByOwner.com. The service was excellent and they provided us with great information and all the tools to get our property sold fast. We listed our house on a Sunday and sold it just 2 days later. We had several offers and a ton of interest. For us, using Billings By Owner instead of a realtor was the difference between getting the house we really wanted or not. It saved us over $14,000 in realtor fees. The community is becoming VERY familiar with Matt's business and people feel secure purchasing with Billings By Owner instead of just doing a regular "for sale by owner". Matt does a lot of marketing the site so it gets a large amount of traffic. Thank you for the great website and we will definitely use it when we upgrade again.
Cathryn Grider
1329 Valley Forge Street
Skip and Michelle Johnson (Closed on the Sale of their home February 2010)
Greetings Matt,
Thank you for your affordable service, it made it possible to sell our house quickly and relocate out of state. We had instant response to our ad on your internet site and the professional yard signs that were provided. We have sold 2 homes by owner, I would urge sellers or buyers not to be afraid to sell or buy on your own, it is easy and BillingsByOwner.com is very efficient. Be patient and keep your $money$ in your pocket and use BillingsByOwner.com.
Satisfied Sellers,
Skip & Michelle Johnson
1100 Noblewood Dr
Skip & Michelle Johnson
1100 Noblewood Drive
Judith B. Herzog (Closed on the sale of her home October 2010)
Dear Matt:
Thanks for the opportunity to utilize the services offered by your company. I had previously advertized in the newspaper, and listed on MLS through your service. I have to tell you that I received more referrals from your service than any other venue. The people who responded to your internet site seemed to have researched the properties thoroughly before they called. I had almost instant response to my ad on your site. My home has sold in a very difficult market, when many high end homes are not selling! The website is very comprehensive. And easy to use.
Thank you for a great service that the Billings community needs! !
Judith B. Herzog
Judith B. Herzog
8844 Susanna
Peggy and Harold Miller (Closed on the sale of their home September 2009)
We decided to use Billings By Owner because our home was in the more expensive price range and, with realtor fees, would have been out of reach of most buyers. We could not be more pleased with this service. Not only did we sell within 6 weeks to a qualified buyer, we also had two other offers and one possible offer. We used no other advertising; the professional yard sign did it all.
Thanks so much for offering this service.
Peggy and Harold Miller
Peggy and Harold Miller
4123 Rangeview Drive
Kathe A. Gabel (BUYER'S TESTIMONIAL)
Finding my house on-line was a positive and very efficient method for buying my home. Information and pictures posted on the website were easy to view and helpful in narrowing my list of choices. As compared to the traditional home buying method, this was easy and without hassle. I highly recommend it!
Kathe A. Gabel
Kathe A. Gabel
908 18th Street North
Dean & Callie Cromwell ( Closed on the Sale of their home August 2009)
We had a wonderful experience with Billings By Owner.com. Their service was excellent and they provided us with great information to get our property sold fast. In fact, we listed our house on Wednesday, (insert date) and sold it just 4 days later on Sunday at our first open house! Thank you for the great website and we will definitely use it again if we sell another house!
Sincerely,
Dean & Callie Cromwell
Dean & Callie Cromwell
3471 Windmill Circle
Mequel Baril (Closed on the sale of his home September 2009)
I have to confess.........I started by perusing the "largest" and "best" realestate agent in town to sell my home. They were very happy to do a market analysis and compare area prices. With this information they gave me a price that they would be willing to list it for. I was surprised by there quick decision and felt they underpriced my home in order for them to gain quick sale. With this information I decided that BILLINSBYOWNER was my next logical choice. I promptly went through there very easy listing process and listed my home for what I thought was a fare price. Within one week and one open house I had two great offers. I sold my house on BILLINGSBYOWNER for over $20,000 more than the realtor suggested! WITH NO REALTOR FEES.
Thank you BILLINGSBYOWNER.
Mequel Baril
Mequel Baril
4023 2nd Ave S
Michael Farmer (Closed on the sale of his home September 2009)
WOW! I am blown away by this service ... I first went thru a couple of Realtors who were pushing my asking price waaay down ... so, I decided to try this service as a total newbie - never selling a home on my own before ... within DAYS of having the SIGN UP on the lawn and the HOME on the site, my phone started ringing ... dozens of interested people were calling. Literally within 2 weeks I had a qualified buyer who gave me my FULL ASKING PRICE! This service made it automatic! My home was on the market, quality people were looking at it, and it was SOLD within 2 weeks ~ LIKE I SAID, "WOW!"
Thank You,
Michael Farmer.
Michael Farmer
1632 Fantan Street
Destry and Carrie Berst (Closed on the sale of their home June 2009)
We put our house up for sale this summer and initially tried advertising with a sign in the yard. After a few weeks and minimal interest, we decided to use BillingsByOwner.com. In a matter of days we were receiving calls and couldn't keep the flyer box filled. We sold our house within three weeks and saved thousands in realtor fees. We would recommend this company to anyone interested in selling their home. Thanks for providing an affordable service.
Destry and Carrie Berst
519 7th Ave - Laurel
Matt and Maureen Ladd (Closed on the sale of their home August 2008)
We were told by a realtor only one in five potential home buyers look at homes for sale by owner. We had a great offer on our home 13 days after we listed it on billingsbyowner.com, so I guess the serious potential buyers are checking out this website!
Matt and Mareen Ladd
Nicole and Alfredo Atilano, (Closed on the sale of their home June 2008)
Thank you Billings By Owner for making it easy and cost efficient to sell our house! You have developed an A+ business, providing the exposure you would get from hiring a real estate agent, without having to pay high realtor fees. We listed our home in the beginning of May, within three weeks we had a buyer from Arizona (he found our house via the website!) made an offer just below our asking price. We filled out and signed the buy/sell agreement took it to the title company and closed the beginning of June. The process was very simple from listing our home on the website to filling out the paperwork. We wish there was a "by owner" in every city! We highly recommend to anyone in Billings, to use Billings By Owner to sell their home.
Nicole and Alfredo Atilano
Casper, WY
Rob and Angie Sanford (Closed on the sale of their home March 2008)
With all the news about a housing slump we were wary of listing our house with a real estate broker and paying a heft commission. We thought we would try BillingsByOwner just to see if it produced any interest. As soon as we posted photos (Matt even helped us upload the photos) the phone started ringing. I was unable to keep up with all the calls. Frankly, I was amazed at how quickly the house sold.
Rob and Angie
Jim O' Tremba (closed on the sale of his home March 2008)
I found that listing my home for sale with BillingsByOwner.com was an easy and convenient way to sell my home. They took the photos of the home, entered all of the information and supplied and installed the signs necessary to sell my home quickly (sold in 40 days from date listed to closing date). All of this was provide for a single flat fee, which for the money was a price is right deal!
Jim O' Tremba
Billings, MT
Judy and David Shimek (Closed on on the sale of their home February 2008)
Just wanted to let you know how happy we are with your service. Our house sold for a price that we are happy with and in less than 2 months. We listed our house at a bad time of year and in a slow housing market. With these factors, we expected a sale to take at least 6 months.
In conjunction with Billings By Owner, we paid Sam Rankin of 1st Choice Realty a flat fee to put our house on the MLS. Sam also helped us with the paperwork for selling our house.
We were surprised by the number of hits our website got the first week. Realtors and qualified buyers alike began calling to see our home. We accepted an offer in January from a realtor who we will pay 3% commission.
From the listing date of Nov 1 to a closing date of Feb 15 we saved $7,600 in realtor fees with no extra effort on our part.
Judy Shimek
Tony and Jamie Pluhar (Closed on the sale of their home October 2007)
I would like to thank BillingsByOwner.com for giving us a great alternate choice to selling our home. We really wanted to sell it ourselves and save the fee of using a realtor and BillingsByOwner made that possible. We got professional signs to use and other helpful tools available through the web site that were very helpful. I would recomend them to anyone who asked about them or who was considering selling our home. It's a great way to get more money out of your home. It's easy and if I could do it, anyone can!!! Thanks again BBO. Your great!!
Sincerely,
Jamie Pluhar
From Cyndie Sheridan (Closed on the sale of her home September 2007)
Thanks so much for making BillingsByOwner.com available! You answered my questions immediately and in the most professional manner. The process was so simple to use and kept THOUSANDS of dollars in my pocket. My home sold in only 18 days and was viewed online nearly 800 times! Obviously, people use your website to find their next home, and I'm so glad BillingsByOwner.com brought my buyer to me! She loves the house as much as I do, which will make my transition so much easier. Thanks, again, and best wishes for much prosperity!
Sincerely,
Cyndie Sheridan
From Chris and Vecta (Closed on the sale of their home August 2007)
Our home sold in August 2007.
When we first put our home on the market we wanted to sell it ourselves but had no idea what to do. We decided to get some signs and put it in the paper, but we had absolutely no response.
My wife was working at a booth at the home improvement show and picked up a flyer for Billingsbyowner.com. We decided for the cost we would have to at least try it. As soon as we contacted billingsbyowner we immediately were given the signs(with flyer box) and we didn't even have to place them. We are not very good with computers, but the website made it very easy to put the pictures on and add extras photos.(always remember people love pictures, so the more the better (hint)). We decided to have our first open house and had a huge turn out. The first week we had three offers. While we were hashing out the original offers we decided to have a second open house and put an ad in the newspaper, but we forgot to put the open house on the website. We only had one person show up and they said they saw the house on the web site and wondered if they could just drive by.
We finally had the battle of the offers end and had our house sold in about 45 days. We always have realtors asking us how hard it was and how we lost out on the extra money, but there were 3 other homes like ours for sale by realtors at the same time and they still have not sold. So not only did our home sell faster, but we save thousands on the realtor fees. I would recommend billingsbyowner.com to anyone who is looking to sell there home and save thousands.
Thanks again,
Chris and Vecta
From Lillian Leroy (Closed on the sale of their home August 2007)
Our home was listed with Billingsbyowner.com in July of 2007. We were grateful to have an alternative resource available to assist us in selling our home without having to list it with a realtor.
We knew that the house would warrant the selling price, however, getting it advertised adequately in order to accomplish that was a real challenge. We had no results with our local newspaper, but had a great deal of response through our listing with Billingsbyowner.com.
The fact that they would provide a bonafide "For Sale" sign with a flyer box attached, and additional signage for open house showings was extremely helpful.
We received an offer on the second day of the listing, for the full amount, and closed the sale approximately 30 days later. There were no out of the ordinary circumstances and both parties were very happy.
I believe that BillingsByOwner.com was the primary reason for our good fortune, especially since they have such a large listing of properties and can ultimately save everyone involved huge amounts of money by not listing it with a broker.
We will definitely use their service again in the future.
With best regards,
Lillian Leroy
From Eric and Sunny Park (Closed on the sale of their home July 2007)
We have and will continue to highly recommend using this website to everyone we know!
We started getting calls to show our home the day after it went on the website and we sold and closed within 45 days.
Two realtors called to show our home and it was so nice to be able to control the traffic through our home. People even called us from out of state who had visited the website and wanted to set up a time to see our house while they were in town. The owner of Billings By Owner, Matt, was great to work with and the website is easy to use. We will definitely use this website again and will always reference this website when shopping for real estate in the future. Thank you to Ron Thom for showing our home and closing the deal!
Eric and Sunny Park
From Rita Harding (BUYER'S TESTIMONIAL)
After extensive review of the real estate market in the Billings area, I found my home using the Billings By Owner website. In fact, the majority of homes in my priority consideration were all on the Billings By Owner website. The website itself was very easy to use with information in easy format to make comparisons. I really appreciated being able to directly communicate with the seller about questions on the property. I also found the legal process very straight forward through the professional service and education provided by my attorney preparing the buy-sell offer, my credit union handling the loan, and the title company handling all the additional paperwork.
Rita Harding
From Andy and Heidi Schumacher (Closed on the sale of their home May 2007)
Matt,
Thank you for providing such a valuable tool to the Billings housing market. The site was easy to use and provided us with a great way to advertise our home. It also proved to be successful, as our home sold in just 2 days! We loved being able to work directly with the buyers to ensure a smooth transition with value added for both parties. Thank you!
Andy & Heidi Schumacher
From Karen and Bob Lemcke (Closed on the sale of their home May 18, 2007)
What a wonderful service. We listed our home on a Friday night and Saturday
morning had a buyer. Thanks for making this all possible. You provide a
valuable and needed service to the community.
Karen & Bob Lemcke
From Cindy Hill (Cindy has sold 3 properties through BillingsByOwner.com)
Using this site has been very user friendly. I appreciate how easy it is to make changes as necessary. I also like being able to see how often our listing has been viewed. We have had a lot of interest.
Cindy Hill
From Christine Hance (Closed on the sale of their home April 12, 2006)
We had a wonderful experience using Billings by Owner.com. This service is an outstanding tool for selling your house by owner. The website provides excellent tools for promoting your home to potential buyers. We amazingly accepted a new job out of state, had our house under contract and moved in less than 21 days!
Thanks for all of your help!
Christine Hance
From Dan and Suezie Hoffer (Closed on the sale of their home April 2006)
Matt,
What a pleasure. We highly recommend your service to all home sellers. The day we posted the Billingsbyowner.com sign in our yard people stopped to pick up our flyer which, by the way, was a breeze to make on the website. Within 2 days of posting our interior and exterior pictures on the site a couple called to see our home. This was 10 days before our first scheduled open house. We followed the expert staging advice of Leslie Atkins at Bliss and her associate Alison Kirby and our house was sold in 5 days to that same couple who called. We saved thousands and gained some lasting friendships along the way. This is the ONLY way to go.
Thanks again Matt!
Dan & Suezie Hoffer
From Lee and Jennifer Kahm (BUYER'S TESTIMONIAL)
My husband and I just bought a home that was listed with you. We loved being able to do the process ourselves and save some money. The way we found the house was by your sign being in their yard. It just caught our eye. The sellers had an information sheet with the sign, and that is the main reason we decided to look at the house. I would recommend your website and service to anyone, and I have. Thank you for making selling your home yourself such an easier task. Without you we never would've found the house we will call home for at least the next 20 years.
Sincerely,
Lee and Jennifer Kahm
From Lonnie and Irene Nelson (Closed on the sale of their home February 2007)
Matt,
We just wanted to say thanks for your services. We saved thousands of dollars by selling our house ourselves, with the help of you business, BillingsByOwner.com. Being able to view the amount of hits on your listing is a real nice feature. Also, your yard sign is far more professional looking and noticable than any Realtor sign I have seen.
Selling our house was easy and enjoyable and I would recommend your service to anyone.
Thank you very much,
Lonnie and Irene Nelson
From Stan and Jennifer Eliason (Closed on the sale of their home 12/20/06)
Matt,
Thanks so much for offering this service in Billings. We had our home listed with a Realtor for four months with no luck. When we listed with BillingsByOwner.com we had several offers and closed on the sale on December 20th. Anyone trying to sell a home in Billings owes it to themselves to try BillingsByOwner.com! You saved us over $14,000! You offer the one thing that a by owner sellers don't have access to and that's online advertising.
Thanks again!
Stan and Jennifer Eliason
From Linda and Zane Dawson (Closed on the sale of their commercial property 09/29/2006)
Hi Matt,
Just to say thank you so much for the help in advertising our property. We did our closing today. We had a lots o people interested right away. After one year with a realtor and no luck. The sale was so quick with you. You were so helpful with us not having the professional use of our computer too. You have a beaming personality that made it easier to sell as well. We will tell all our friends about you.
Thanks Again,
Linda and Zane
From Greg Doty (Closed on the sale of their home 09/01/2006)
Billings By Owner
THOUSANDS of dollars worth of thanks!!!!
Everyone made selling our own home out to be difficult. Boy were they
WRONG!
We had hundreds of hits on your website within days. The buyer said they found
our house on your Open House section. After that, the hardest thing was setting
a closing date at the Title and Loan Place. They're the ones that do all the
work and we don't pay that crazy 7% fee to a realtor.
Heck, it almost took me as long to finally sit down and write this
testimonial as it did for us to sell our home. Thanks again, and I tell
everyone about your site.
Greg Doty
From Keith and Erin (Closed on the sale of their home 08/28/2006)
Matt:
Thanks so much for your prompt and professional service. The Billings area homeowners definitely benefit from your service, to the detriment of local realtors. We listed our home on July 14th, and we had several interested buyers within the first few days. The eventual buyer closed on August 28th. (He saw our home on the website and contacted me via email to begin the process.) No realtor commissions were paid, so some of our equity could be used for buyer's incentives. I will definitely recommend your service, and will attempt to educate future sellers of the irrelevance of realtors. The title company and lender do the majority of the work, and with the broadening exposure your website generates, an MLS listing is not necessary. Again, thanks for all your help.
Keith & Erin
From John and Trisha Zowada (Closed on the sale of their home 08/31/2006)
Dear Matt,
John and I listed our home with you and within 11 hours of listing (even without photos) we received a phone call from a potential buyer. That phone call turned into a signed buy/sell two hours later. We've also estimated that BillingsByOwner.com saved us $10,000 plus! Thanks so much!
John and Trisha Zowada
From George Wilson (Closed on the sale of his home 08/07/2006)
Thank you Matt...
Your service was greatly appreciated. Getting a good offer within 30 days of
listing, after having it listed with a realtor for 6 months and not even an
offer... we were greatly appreciated of your service.
Thank You,
George Wilson
From Jeff and Leticia Moore (Closed on the sale of their home 07/27/2006)
Thank you BillingsByOwner.com for the prompt and friendly service that you offered. We were able to post pictures of our home on the website, as well as, create nice flyers that ended up selling our home. The advice on the website for selling by owner was also very useful. The buyer's drove by, saw the professional looking sign and picked up one of our flyers. It was a combination of our hard work, to make the property look nice, and the professional flyer offering relevant information that sold our home. The advertising on the website is definately the best "bang for your buck." Thank you BillingsByOwner.com for your advice, service and assistance in helping us sell our home. We listed our home on your site on July 6th, accepted an offer on July 13th and are closing July 27th!!!
Jeff and Leticia Moore
From Madhu and Naresh Sethuram (Closed on the sale of their home 06/30/2006)
Hi Matt,
Your website did the trick for us. We had our ad in the paper and online on billingsgazette.com but we didn't have serious leads for a month. After advertising on your website, we got 2 serious leads out of which one led to a sale. Thank you for setting up the really big "For Sale" signs in our front yard and the directional sign near our house. Your website was instrumental in the sale of our house.
Thanks you so much.
With best regards,
Madhu and Naresh Sethuram
From George and Krista Thorson (Closed on the sale of their home 06/19/06)
Matt,
We were very pleased with your help and expertise in selling our home. It took about six weeks because our buyers had to sell their home, with your help, before they could close on our house. e close on June 19, 2006.
Your signs and the web site are tremendous help and expertly done. The paperwork is very simple as the lender's bank and the title company have all the expertise needed to complete the transactions. Thank you for your help and support.
George and Krista Thorson
From Rowell & Marilyn Tofte (Closed on the sale of their home 06/02/2006)
Thank you for your help in selling our two homes.
We knew that Internet exposer to sell a home is vital, and the write-up plus a neat yard sign are also very important. After looking into developing a website, building a sharp yard sign and a written description of our property, we chose to look into your program, and we are sure glad we did. Your program provided us with an attractive yard sign that turned heads, also a website that brought over 700 hits per home, many phone calls about price and size. Your program provided us with yard sale, open house signs plus follow up from your personally to see how we were doing.
We were surprised to have sold the Laurel, MT home first on June 2, 2006 while advertising the Billings heights home for a longer period. Oct 5, 2006 we closed on the Billings Home which your program proudly displayed on the website.
We did not know exactly how to sell our homes ourselves but will your help and guidance we were able to make two other families happy with new homes.
We highly recommend all others to use BillingsByOwner.com and your personal service to sell their homes and businesses. Your program does the basic foot-work, all the seller does is show the property they are proudly selling.
If ever the need comes up, we will surely use BillingsByOwner.com again with price. Thanks so very much for the help.
Rowell & Marilyn Tofte
From Dan & Alina Cotrell (Closed on the sale of their home 05/15/2006)
If you are serious about selling your home yourself, we highly recommend using BillingsByOwner.com. Their professional signage & website expose your home to an unlimited number of potential buyers, for a fraction of the cost. Thanks again Matt & Brigid! We couldn't have done it without you!
Dan and Alina Cotrell
From Larry and Kathleen Morris (Closed on the sale of their home: 04/14/06)
Selling our home by ourselves was far easier than any of the books we
read said it would be; and they said it would be very easy. Keeping
the house clean all the time was a tougher task than doing the
paperwork.
Using BillingsByOwner.com was a real plus because our exterior signs
and the web site looked so professional. We competed on equal footing
with the real estate companies.
The main things we learned were: price your house like similar homes in
your area, be patient (in other words, don't let anyone scare you into
thinking your home cannot sell FSBO), and go over the Buy/Sell
agreement so that you're comfortable with the terms and parts that need
to be filled in.
We no longer wonder why there are so many real estate agents. It's
pretty obvious to us now that the job is far easier than they make it
out to be. The title company did most of the work.
Our 2 months selling our home was an interesting and, amazing to say,
enjoyable experience. Thanks BillingsByOwner.com!
Larry and Kathleen Morris
From Laura & Carl Pivonka (Closed on the sale of their home: 02/22/06)
Hi Matt,
Thanks for the opportunity to enhance our efforts at selling our home. We really liked the professional signs and responsiveness to our needs. As home owners catch on to the fact that it is not that hard to sell their home, more and more will begin to list on the Internet locally with your firm. Additionally, the real estate fee savings to both the seller and the buyer are enormous, and we encourage all to make the effort to sell their own home themselves. It's easy to do with the support you gave us, and outside of that, it just takes some perseverence! We have a pending sale right now!
Best Regards,
Laura & Carl Pivonka
From Dave and Heather Eckness (Closed on the sale of their home: 12/09/05)
Dear BillingsByOwner.com (Matt and Brigid),
My husband and I are very pleased with the service we received from billingsbyowner.com. We were hesitant at first to sell our house by ourselves, however with the help of your business, it only took six weeks. Your service and signs are very professional and the extra exposure from the website proved to be very successful. We especially appreciated your prompt and accommodating service. Thank you again for everything, we are closing on our house on December 9th.
Sincerely,
David & Heather Eckness
From Josh and Jessy Catt (Closed on the sale of their home: 10/31/05)
Thank you so much for the help with selling our home. Your service and products are so excellent and professional. We were so thankful for all of the extra tools your site makes available to sellers. Blessings on your new business... and your family.
Josh and Jessy Catt
P.S. We closed today, thank you again.
