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Someone named Jane called me and asked if I'd like to have a free listing on Fizber. I said that's super generous of you whats the catch, she said there was no catch and that she will confirm on the recorded line that there is no purchase necessary. I figured even though I had never heard of this site, any exposure is good exposure right? So I agreed. Not 5 minutes later I get a text from Anthony at Sold.com saying he's following up on my call with Jane and was going to call me in a few minutes with a free home valuation. I replied no thanks, as I have lived in and been investing in this city for years and did not need this service. They did not continue to hound me at all and that was the end of that, but Jane must have been upset because I did not get the free listing she had had so graciously offered me. I don't know if I'd call it a horrible experience, just a waste of time. 10 minutes of my life I'll never have back, wish I would have rejected the call

No a good experience in this site, most of the properties are no updated

The only reason I went with Fizber was to list my house on MLS, which worked because it sold very quickly. However, since I was not a realtor I had no support on how to do the paperwork and the rest. The realtor assigned to us was not very helpful because you could only email him or else he would charge $25 everytime you called. So the buyer's realtor had all the leverage and could totally take advantage of us. If it wasn't for a realtor friend of mine helping us negotiate and fill out the paperwork correctly, we would have been in trouble.

Fizber does put your ad on other sites, but if you pay extra and use the MLS service, you will be wasting your money. The local Realtors will blackball your MLS listing, and encourage prospective buyers to look at a different property than yours. Fizber also works with realtors that they try to encourage you to list with. But the realtors that they work with also will not bother to show your house, even if you pay Fizber to have it put on the MLS, unless you actually list with their agent. I told my friend that I believed the realtors were black balling my listing, so my friend sent out emails to several realtors asking for more information about my property. Out of 10 realtors that she contacted, only 2 bothered to try to help her, although one of them did try to steer her away from the property and look at something else. Another realtor told her it was no longer available! And 2 of the agents that ignored her completely were agents that supposedly work with Fizber! I also had an open house recently, and even though I was supposedly listed on the local MLS, my open house date was not allowed to be viewed by the public. They would not post the open house on the MLS locally. So, I personally invited 15 different realtors to the open house, and told them that I would pay them an additional $500 along with their 3% commission if they attended the open house, and then find me a buyer. Not 1 realtor bothered to show up to the open house. And once again, two of these realtors were Fizber affiliated realtors, neither of which bothered to reply or to show up to the open house. I discussed my concerns that I was having with Don Shab from Fizber, but his only concern seemed to be that I had not signed with one of the Fizber affiliated agents, and that if I signed with one of them, I would have better results. So, that tells me that Fizber is not about FSBO as they claim to be, since they just want to push one of their affiliate agents down your throat. Kind of defeats the whole purpose of "for sale by owner", doesn't it? And why would I want to use one of their agents when they ignored my friend's request for more information about my property? And they ignored my open house request which would have netted them an additional $500? Hardly the kind of realtor that I want to use to try to sell my home. Judge for yourself.....but I suggest you really think long and hard before giving this company any of your hard earned money! 05/14/2015: Rebuttal to Fizber's Reply: I am simply stunned by Fizber's reply (see below). They try to make me out to be some kind of a jerk because I have not used their online "free" tools available to me. And they also stated that I priced my property higher than the comparable analysis that their agent gave me, and stated that I did not listen to any of the agent's suggestions. This just shows that Fizber has no clue as to what is going on. I have a copy of the actual comparable market analysis which I received from their agent, which was priced at $239,500. And Zillows zestimate for my property is $10K higher than my asking price! Also, their market analysis agent recommended that I separate the home price from the boat slip, which I did. And my asking price of $199,900 plus $35K for the boat slip is $4600 lower than the suggested listing price that their agent recommended. So either Fizber is lying to try to make themselves look better, or their agent is lying to them about the recommended listing price of the evaluation. Either way, this is really a very poor and inaccurate response on Fizber's part. As far as me not using any of their available marketing tools, that also is untrue. A video tour was created, along with a digital property brochure, and links to these are posted on every available real estate web page that I am listed on. And I have shared my property info on Pinterest, Facebook, and Craigslist, I just did not do it through Fizber's site. I have printed and distributed fliers, just not Fizber's fliers, as they are not the only site that has this option available, and I have found better looking fliers elsewhere. And I have put up a yard sign, just not Fizber's yard sign. I have also held an Open House, and listed the open house through their MLS listing, but it was black balled by the local realtors. Everything that they offer that is free, I have done, I just have not done it all through their site. My property is listed on over 25 different real estate web pages, most of which I had to list my ad personally, since Fizber does not list on many of these sites. I have listed my property in over 20 different states on Craigslist, and it is renewed every 48 hours. And my property is listed in two local classified papers. Most of what Fizber offers to market your home is not free, but they failed to mention that in their reply. But what Fizber is really missing from my original comments is the fact that listing your property on the local MLS is a total waste of money, if the local realtors are going to ignore the listing and not show the property. Realtors are banning together against the low price MLS listings, and refusing to show them because they do not want to lose the ability to list properties and receive a 3% commission. They do very little work to list a property, yet they receive half of their income from listing properties. So, places like Zillow, Fizber and ForSaleByOwner are a huge threat to their bottom line. It does not matter which internet service you choose to pay for the MLS service, they will all get the cold shoulder from the local realtors. And that also holds true with the realtors that Fizber uses, even though Fizber does not seem to be aware of this. And for those of you that are skeptical about the facts that I have stated here as to the local realtors banning together against the MLS entries coming from such web sites, I have one more bit of info on this. I am friends with an upper management representative of the second largest independent residential real estate brokerage firm in the United States, HomeSevices of America, Inc., and he acknowledges the fact that the realtors will stick together to try to save their listing fees from disappearing to such sites as Fizber, Zillow and ForSaleByOwner. His suggestion: find a good realtor and get your house listed, if you really want to sell it! So, Fizber, back off on the negative comments on how I am not doing enough to try and sell my property. You have no idea how much work I have put into this process, and I guarantee I have done more than any realtor will ever do for me. But I am only one person working alone, where the realtors are a complete network that is working together, and when this network decides to work against you, there is not much hope for a successful sale. I am by no means attacking Fizber, I am just stating how the listing on the local MLS, whether through your site, or one of your competitors, is a waste of money, when the local realtors are going to boycott your listing. And that includes the local realtors that Fizber is using, whether or not the people at Fizber actually realize it or not!