BigBrick.com Offers Oregon Home Sellers Money-Saving Solutions

The Web site provides a free listing, free legal paperwork and even a free sign for home owners selling their home without a real estate agent.

(BEND, Ore.) - When Shawn and Molly Kelly’s Bend, Oregon home failed to sell after six months on the market with a realtor, they decided to drop the price and sell it on their own. They enlisted help from the free service BigBrick.com that included listing their home for nothing on the company's Web site.

Two days later, a buyer saw their house on BigBrick.com and made an offer. The closing is next month.

"We figured that if we didn’t have to pay a commission, we could offer a more attractive price," says Molly Kelly.

And it worked. They got a price they're happy with and the buyer got a great deal.

For home sellers like the Kelly's who have decided to forgo an agent and sell on their own, BigBrick.com offers an array of free real estate services.

Users can print all their legal paperwork, including the sales contract and property disclosures, right from the site. The price: $0.

BigBrick.com also sends every seller who posts a property on the site a free BigBrick.com sign. The sign is about 6 inches by 18 inches and can be hung below the sellers existing for sale sign. When a buyer drives by and sees the sign, they have a convenient way to get the scoop on what that property has to offer.

And because BigBrick offers map based searching, it is easy for buyers to pinpoint a specific house that they had driven by.

"The free signs are a big part of what we are doing, and they have really been driving a lot of traffic to the site," says BigBrick founder David Staley.

"We are absolutely committed to keeping all of our services free. We really feel that is the best way to attract as many users as possible, and the more people we have using the site, the more valuable a resource it becomes," says Staley.

After launching the site three months ago, BigBrick already has a strong presence in its home town of Bend, and properties located in other parts of the state also have been posted.

"For Oregon home sellers, BigBrick may be a tool worth considering in a slow real estate market," says Staley.

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Henry Ruark January 25, 2008 6:02 pm (Pacific time)

To all: First Amendment does in no way allow or encourage the use of anonymity to avoid regular responsibility and full accountability, and Federalist Papers show clearly Founders would have been astounded at concept of avoidance to avert "retaliation". They knew about retaliation, too: remember old Ben's words" "We must hang together or we will surely hang separately." He did NOT intend name-calls and blame-games, you can bet, but rather what the F/Papers surely prove: Dialog from which all learn and all gain from that honest exchange.

Neal Feldman January 25, 2008 4:58 pm (Pacific time)

Jefferson - it is a laughable concept to try and link any thoughts you might have with the idea of 'sense'. Your boy Shrub has been in office over 7 years, your folks in the GoPherhole have been in charge in Congress for the past 14 years or so with the exception of the last one year. The blame for the current issues is on the GOP and your farcical policies. You can try desperately to play the Blame Game and try and find some other target but the laser scope pointer remains squarely between your eyes where in others a brain might reside. Better luck next time, but thanks for playing. Ah well...

Henry Ruark January 25, 2008 4:04 pm (Pacific time)

To all: Roots go deeper and back farther than that, as wellknown authoritative economists clearly have shown. IF you have long-kept file, should be no problem to ID the information precisely. IF working from memory, can appreciate advanced-age loss, already demonstrated here. BUT never let truth and the public record stand in the way of making somebody else bear the unfair burden for 30 years of misbegotten and mismanaged overwhelming power, misapplied in so many areas it has taken some time for major portions to become widely understood. Now that's happening, with more every day...so only possible avenue of escape is to blame somebody, anybody, to see if delusion and fantasy can still be sold, at least to some. "True cause and effect variables" is quoted, but not attributed. ID-quote, if you will pardon that term ID ! If you can do so, please also include link or reference to where it is found, per constant pattern here by others with concern for responsibility and for accountability, too. Nothing like "seeing with own eyes" and THEN using own brain to evaluate both what is offered AND the source offering it.

Jefferson January 25, 2008 2:12 pm (Pacific time)

The theory that Clinton's cabinet puppet Cisneros as the one who planted the seeds to the subprime fiasco makes a lot of sense to those who take the time to appreciate "true cause and effect variables", rather than ill-informed ideologues who probably never ran a business, maybe never even know what it's like to make a payroll...but that lack of experience probably won't compel those theory-types from sharing their ill-informed opinions. God bless the 1st Amendment, for it allows all to speak and clear-thinking people can judge their reliability...and validity!

Henry Ruark January 25, 2008 10:00 am (Pacific time)

To all: For further understandings of the subprime real estate debacle, see Comment with Op Ed outlining how federal officials helped cause it.

Mark in Keizer January 24, 2008 1:49 pm (Pacific time)

Thanks for letting us know about this, the kind of thing Oregon residents need right now! Real estate agents are out to do no favors.

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