If you are going to try to sell your house without the services of a professional real estate agent then there are some things you need to know.

Before putting the house on the market you'll want to clean the place up and make it spotless. The first impression you make on a potential buyer is the most important impression you will ever make on that buyer. You want it to be perfect, and one step towards perfection is to clean up the house.

Remember that the first thing potential buyers see when they come to tour your house is the front yard and the front of the house. Clean them up. Make sure the paint looks good or get it painted. Some even go so far as to rent a pressure washer and pressure wash the sidewalks and the driveway. Once you've cleaned up the house you'll want to switch into marketing mode.

Other tips on this site address marketing so we won't spend much time on it here. One thing not to forget is that you want to have a photographic tour available online. These are called 'virtual tours'. There are places to go where you can get free website hosting on which you can place your tour. You can find free web site hosting by clicking here. Of course you have to know how to do it. If you don't know how to do it then sign up with a FSBO web site that will allow you to upload photos of your house and assemble them into a virtual tour.

Marketing is the most challenging part of selling your own house. Plan on spending a lot of time doing it, especially if the market is slow.