48 Inexpensive Ways to Market Your Property For Sale

The list below is our effort to compile as many innovative ways to put your property in the eyes of potential buyers without committing to a realtor or spending thousands in marketing. Of course, some of the strategies below are more viable than others. We’ve bolded and increased the font-size of the marketing techniques we believe can help the most. Without further ado, here are 48 cheap ways to market your property for a faster sale:

1. Create a home-made video tour of your property and publish it on YouTube and paste the link on various online real estate directories and your social website.
2. Publish a real estate classified in your local newspaper.
3. List your house in all major real estate websites.
4. List your house in Craigslist’s real estate classifieds and renew the ad every two tor three days.
5. If you have a blog with traffic, advertise your property there.
6. Design a flyer with your property’s location, price, and features and mail blast it to all the addresses in your Zip code. (Use a service to do this).
7. Post flyers on local boards around you city. Panera Bread, Barnes and Noble and Einstein Brothers usually let you post flyers in their boards.
8. Attend your loca REIA (Real Estate Investment Association) meeting and offer your property to local investors.
9. Post your propert’s essential information on all major social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram etc. Include a link to a youtube video tour.
10. Partner up with a local pizza delivery company to attach your house stickers on the pizza boxes.
11. Hire students who can deliver flyers in an area of your interest.
12. Put up bandit signs advertising your property for sale througout your neighborhood.
13. Invite your neighbors over for dinner and ask for their help. They might be able to referr you to a family member looking to live close to them.
14. Email your house information in a convincing and strategic manner to all your contacts.
15. Join and comment on real estate threads on ActiveRain.com. Be sure to provide value to the conversation, and not only advertise.
16. Put up a billboard advertisement. It costs on a monthly, quarterly, or yearly basis.
17. Use Fiverr.com to hire people to post your flyer in local colleges or any other public places.
18. Call in your local radio station as a listener to comment on an issue (preferably real estate related), then try briefly mention your house is for sale. AM stations might even be willing to help. This one is tricky but powerful.
19. Get engaged with a local NGO. There you will definitely meet lot of new faces who can help you out by giving your reference to others.
20. Boost your Facebook posts by paying a small amount. It improves the ad visibility in a particular demographic group.
21. Stick a house for sale magnet on your car.
22. Give your house a fresh coat of paint. Don’t go overboard with blues and greens; choose sophisticated neutral colors. A visitor might get impressed with the work you have done to maintain the house.
23. Get at least some basic landscaping work done. Some people even go to the extrene spray painting their lawns before a open house. Make sure you from entrance is inviting.
24. Keep the price competitive. Thoroughly research about the property prices in your vicinity. And always keep it slightly lower than what others have listed.
25. Sponsor a small patch of highway for cleaning and maintenance activities so that the authorities can allow you to stick banners or sign advertisements.
26. Design your own property related shirts to wear them at a function or a business event.
27. Get a take-home booklet printed for the people who contact you or show interest in purchasing the house. Include high quality pictures of your house in it.
28. Plant trees in the local community; and stick flyers on them to inform people about your property.
29. Conduct open houses for people on a regular basis. And try to keep them inside the house for longer duration by offering snacks or other engaging things.
30. Attend all the community meetings in the neighborhood and let everyone know your house if for sale.
31. Sweeten the deal by throwing in bonuses like your car, a vacation, to the buyer of your home.
32. Motivate realtors by offering them incentives such as a higher commission for selling your house.
33. Draw attention of people by tying colorful balloons to the front of your house.
34. Fix every corner of your house. There shall be no visible defects such as water leaks, broken furniture etc.
35. Try to obtain energy efficiency rating of your house from a recognized agency in your area. Green houses tend to appeal users more these days.
36. Install a 220 Volt outlet in your garage and mention your house is prepared for electric car owners.
37. Ask the visitors for an honest review at the end of every open house. This would help you identify and correct the negatives.
38. Feature your house on the local real estate guides. (Those little booklets sitting outside your supermaket).
39. Talk to as many people as possible about your intentions to sell your house.
40. Offer easy and attractive payment facilities such as owner financing, lease option or rent to own.
41. Contact any local bank managers, attorneys, priests, rabbis, professors, or anybody who is in contact with a lot of people in a regular basis and ask for referrals.

We are missing 9 more ideas to get to 50! If you can think of other good ways to market a house in a non-traditional manner, comment below and I will add it to this article. Be sure to read our how-to guide on selling your house fast using the internet.