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ByTheOwner.com had more than 350 Open Houses last week. May is Open House month and lots of our customers are opening their door and bringing in all the buyers. This is also helping sell more homes! Here a few sold homes from last week… along with their testimonials.

“PATIENCE is the keyword. Keep on waiting untill the right buyer comes in your home.. Don’t give up and always do your open house.. Thank you BYTHEOWNER.COM and KEEP IT UP…..”

“It’s been a great experience using ByTheOwner.com, selling privately is a lot simpler than people think, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. In the end it’s the lawyers that do the work, not the agents. Thanks for all your help Magda, best of luck to you all.“

“ByTheOwner.com was a great way to sell my home. Having an open house was very effective and it attracted a lot of interested buyers.“

“Professional, eye catching signage, Agents where not much of a problem, but rather entertaining in trying to get “us” to sign with them. The best one was the box of donuts left on the front steps. If selling again, I would definetly go this route. The buyer saved $ and we saved $, win/win, except for the over commissioned agents.“

“little bit of a house war..as offers came pouring….two solid offers @ 155!!!!had to choose one!!! and this after dropping it to 152…thanks “ByTheOwner.com” great user friendly site as well!!! hats off!!!! Luc & Joanne!!!“

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ByTheOwner.com’s customers are opening their doors to buyers. There were more than 300 open houses scheduled last weekend. Open Houses are a great way to bring buyers and sellers together. Here are two recent testimonials of a customer that sold by doing open houses:

SOLD IN 2 WEEKS

SOLD IN 3 WEEKS

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ByTheOwner.com’s website statistics for the month of April 2008:

Website visitors increased from 694,507 visits in April 2007, to 990,641 in April 2008. This is a 43% increase in website visits from April 2007 to April 2008.

Pageviews increased from 6.0 million page views in April 2007, to 8.2 million pageviews in April 2008. This is 35% increase in pageviews from April 2007 to 2008.

Unique visitors increased from 372,643 unique visitors in April 2007, to 506,925 unique visitors in April 2008. This is 36% increase in unique visitors from April 2007 to 2008.

Unique visitors and pageviews are the two most useful statistics when it comes to measuring the exposure you will receive from a For Sale By Owner website. Unique visitors is the number of individual people coming to look for properties on the site. Pageviews is the number of pages that those visitors look at.

Some websites claim to have a certain number of “hits”. This is not a valid measure of website activity, because a “hit” can be counted a number of different ways. For example, if a page has 30 images on it, and one person goes to that page, it could be counted as 30 “hits”. This would be like saying ByTheOwner.com received more than 200 million “hits”. ByTheOwner.com does not quote how many “hits” we receive because it is not a valid stat. Unique visitors and pageviews are the only real measure of website activity.

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