# Who's bought a house recently? **URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whos-bought-a-house-recently/6287 **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic **Created:** [January 1, 2006, 11:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whos-bought-a-house-recently/6287 "2006-01-01T11:04:05Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 16
### Author: ![camarojoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@camarojoe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/camarojoe) #### Post date: [January 2, 2006, 3:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whos-bought-a-house-recently/6287/16 "2006-01-02T15:00:26Z")
> [@Firehawk853](#): > > I bought my house last year using America’s Choice. Basically there is no realitor involved and the home owner is selling the home themselves. They pay a small fee to have the home listed. The benefit is that you don’t have to pay the realitor fees and the houses are generally about 10% lower in price than a house of similar value. If i ever sell my house, its the way i’ll do it. > > [http://www.americaschoice.com/](http://www.americaschoice.com/) Actually 6 houses on my block sold last summer. 3 of them For Sale by Owner, 3 by real estate agents. The for sale by owners actually got $5 to $7 over asking price. Add that to them not having to pay a commision to agents. 🙂 The link that I sent you is actually down the street from me. From what neighbors said, the house is well maintained and it’s too big for the 1 person to live in now. I’m sure they would take a fair offer on it since houses don’t sell well in the winter. We closed on our house almost 4 years ago (Jan 9, 2002). I think there are 4 or 5 houses for sale on Tremont which is 2 blocks over. Just drive up and down the streets around here, you’ll see a ton for sale. If you are handy, some of them are estate sales since the original owner died and the family wants to sell it off. Kenmore’s age range is dropping to upper 20’s to 50’s now. 🙂 --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whos-bought-a-house-recently/6287)._