Marketing my property outside of a realtor

[Ray S.]

Is there any kind of marketing I can do independently of my real estate agent? If so what should I try? Can I try sending letters or postcards to other co-brokers advertising the property? And if so, would it help to offer some kind of bonus or gift to the co-broker? Are there any sites I can promote my property on outside of MLS? How about social networking or creating a website for the property and buying ads or Google keywords to promote the website? I'd appreciate any suggestions, I'm willing to spend money on it. Thanks!

[Alex Kennedy]

The marketing would depend on the selling price of the house. I would leave the selling and marketing to the realtor. A good realtor will market the house and should do this for you. If you have free credits from your website hosting company to use for a google adwords campaign then just create a free page with wix.com and drive traffic to it.  Focus on making your property more marketable like any product. Take good pictures, do small appearance repairs, create curb side appeal, hand out flyers to neighbors. 

Let me know how it goes.

Alex Kennedy