Home BayReviews of homebay.com

I wasn’t happy with how long it took for our house to sell (1 year) but your personnel (Ryan Prazen) was very professional, patient and informational. It is definitely a different way of selling because it seems very distant and other Realators say it’s to impersonal. But, as Ryan said, it’s possible it could have been an economical situation. We also had some major personal things happen on our end during that time. However, in the end, Homebay saved us over $6,000, so that’s a very important bottom line when selling a home. Once we started getting offers and finally selling the house, Homebay handled everything. We had 3 “Pendings” fall through, not Homebay or our fault, but there was no backlash or complaints from them about all the paperwork that had to be completed.

As a seller, we had a good experience using HomeBay. In our case, the Bay area market is hot and there was good confidence that home would sell quickly. The issue was really what would be a good price to list at. Given that we had a good feel for the home prices in our area, we felt that paying a 2.5% to 3% fee to a listing agent did not add as much value. By going with Home Bay, it allowed us to take control of decisions, yet have someone take care of the legal aspects of the paperwork, minus the big, fat commission! The photograph company that HomeBay arranged was excellent, they did full justice to the lighting and the staging that we had done to present the house well! From a buyers perspective, I had at least 3 agents tell me that they had to wait for responses and found it frustrating to talk to a different agent each time. But they ended up reaching out to us directly and the communication was smooth after that! In fact, we preferred the direct interaction with the potential buyer's agents and clients. When we bought our home a few months earlier, we had an agent and the seller had an agent. For a straightforward question, we had to go through a chain of communication (us to our agent to their agent to seller and back!) and that was very irritating and time consuming! 2 comments for improvements: One service that HomeBay can add is helping with staging the house. We got outside help and feel that made a big difference to how the house presented itself, and ultimately the final sale price. Another thing that HomeBay can make easier is to sort the reviews according to zip code. When i was trying to decide if we should go with HomeBay or not, i tried to search for homes around my area that had sold via HomeBay. I felt that finding a review on a home closer to my zip code should have been made easier. All in all, if you want to be involved in the sale process and not lose a lot in commissions, HomeBay is the way to go!

It was my first experience selling a home. It was extremely frustrating but Homebay was patient with me and explained every step and cautioned me when I got out of line.

Hombay’s preceded Lawyers Title closed at 53 days instead of the promised 45 so this caused some serious stress to all parties involved however, homebay staff themselves get my 5 star Rating!