Trying to sell your house without the services of a professional real estate agent can be a time consuming process. The savings involved, however, are so substantial that many people do it successfully. Here's one secret used by the most successful FSBOs (for sale by owners).

Some of the more successful sellers assemble a team of experts to help them through the process of concluding a successful sale. Here's the team. You'll need a real estate closing attorney to handle the legal details. In some states a title company will suffice. The attorney can prepare settlement papers, contracts, review documents and generally keep you out of trouble.

Line up a friendly mortgage banker who will be willing to qualify potential buyers for you. If you have that relationship in place then you can direct a potential buyer directly to the person who can assist with the qualification process.

If you've selected a real estate attorney then you will need to arrange a title company to handle the title transfer process. Again, interview several title companies so that you don't waste valuable time later and delay the sale of your house.

Going the FSBO route involves time and planning. But you can do it and unlike many rainbows, there's a pot of gold for you at the end of this one.