On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:55:54 GMT, "Caliban"
wrote:


Yeahbut the seller passes along that cost to the buyer.


And the objective of most if not all sellers who offer a house FSBO is
to sell the house for the same price as one being handled by agents
and keep the profit that otherwise would be spent to pay the agent's
commission!


I've sold twice by owner and that was not my objective either time. My
objective was to recoup *some* of the 7 percent the realtor would have earned,
but not all of it.

YMMV.

-Dawn