Doing it yourself, anywhere.
We can only represent people where we hold the MLS key and can walk the house. The manuals are for everyone else: the whole process, written down, for someone doing it alone.
Buy a home without an agent
The whole process, start to keys, for someone doing it alone.
Free
- What you can and can't do without a license, state by state
- Getting to an underwritten approval before you shop
- Reading a listing, and what the status codes actually mean
- Checking a home: HOA health, permits, hazard zones, solar
- Writing the offer: price, contingencies, credits, the appraisal gap
- The inspection report, and which items are worth asking about
- Closing: the statement line by line, and the wire-fraud rules
Sell a home without an agent
Pricing, paperwork, showings and closing, without paying a commission.
Free
- What you can and can't do without a license, state by state
- Pricing from comps, and why the first ten days decide it
- The prep that returns more than it costs
- Disclosures: what you must tell a buyer, and why more is safer
- Photos, the listing, and where to post when you have no MLS
- Showings, open houses, and what not to say to a buyer
- Offers: comparing them on net, not price, and how to counter
- Escrow to close, and the wire-fraud rules
A manual, not representation. It explains how the process works; it isn't legal or tax advice, and downloading it doesn't make us your agent.
Keep the commission. We'll do the paperwork.
MLS listing, disclosures, contracts, deadlines and a transaction coordinator — handled by a licensed California agent for a flat fee. $0 up front, and nothing owed if your home doesn't sell.
Send me my numbersBased on a $1M San Diego sale where the listing side is 3%. Commission rates are negotiable and not set by law. The flat fee is paid from your proceeds at closing; if your home doesn't sell there is no fee. Any compensation you choose to offer a buyer's agent is separate and not included. Estimate only, not a guarantee.