Many businesses will lead you to believe that you’d be a fool to sell a car or a house without a ‘professional’. Is it harder for the owner to make the sale himself? Of course it is, nothing in life is free. However, the minute you spend the couple of dollars to purchase your own for sale by owner sign you will start to see the dollars. What the car dealer and real estate agent want is your money so they’ll say whatever will inflate their pockets the fastest.

When selling a home, there are some issues that you will have to look into, but remember that real estate agents can take as much as 10% commission on your sale. On a 200K house that’s a whopping 20 thousand dollars! Go to your local library and take out a few books on buying or selling your home and inform yourself on all the issues that you have to watch for.

Selling your car is a little different, the dealer doesn’t take a commission on the price, he buys your car from you, transfers the car to himself, holds it in his lot until it is sold. So the buyer will have to cover the costs of transferring the car from you to the dealer, cover the costs of keeping the car in the lot, pay the salesman’s commission, the mechanics evaluation and a little something for the dealer. Skip the middle man, place a few ads and you’re most likely going to make off better than going through the dealer.

Search these classified ads to get an idea how other people are selling their cars and houses for free.