For Sale Or Rent By Owner (.com.au)
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Just a middle man! Save $s and time and go direct – Bit frustrated to find I have been ripped off and these guys just pass on the business (after taking their cut) to this mob: https://www.rediy.com.au/ Save yourself time and $s and go direct to aforementioned url I'd include a receipt if they'd supplied/sent one FAKE FAKE FAKE shop front for the real thing. Learn from my experience and DON'T USE!!
Positive reviews
Buying or selling property – I advertised with For Sale Or Rent By Owner recently and had a positive result within 2 days of my advertisement being placed on realestate.com.au I would highly recommend selling or leasing your property through FSORBO The fee is very reasonable to give it a go The best thing of course is that you don't pay an agent's commission Thank you… Read more
FSORBO for your professional friendly help and I will personally recommend you to my friends
Elizabeth Hamilton Gold Coast
Very simple process Australian based – I have used them for rental and selling and they are always very responsive to updating listings, open times etc. They are polite and always responsive within a very short time and always update or answer same day. I have tried a few of these type of sites and these while not always the cheapest are definitely the best and Australian based. When… Read more
you are selling your house you don't need any more stress so don't skimp too much. And have courage the place will sell eventually (my mums house took 5 months).
This works – The people were extremely helpful in getting the information onto the site. Once up and running the responses came in 'thick n fast'. I am extremely happy with both the process and results.
Negative reviews
No phone connection – $199 wasted, phone number on my realestate.com ad won't connect, and after multiple phone calls and emails, I'm now informed by fsorbo it never will, customer can only email. Not what I payed for.
Hard to Find my Own Property – By entering search criteria in Domain and RealEstate.Com directed precisely for my property for rent, produced a result on only one occasion but further searches failed to reveal my advertisement although it did generate one enquiry. For the same period the identical add on Gumtree produced 5 enquiries although none of those resulted in an… Read more
inspection of the property. Ultimately it only has to reach one genuine customer and the enquiry through FSORBO resulted in an inspection and a 12 month lease so the $99.00 was well spent.
Producing my own add was easy enough with my own text and photos but the FSORBO site didn't allow for an availability date to be entered that would appear on multiple sites.
Big promises - NO results - better to use Gumtree – This business provides a cheap entry to property owners having their advertisements on Realestate.com and Domain.com. You supply the text and they advertise on the websites as the principal and supposedly re-direct any enquiries to you. HOWEVER, they are based in Surfers Paradise and their name and address appears as the agency contact on those… Read more
websites which would be a turn off for anyone for someone wanting to rent a property interstate. Your draft advertisement with your phone number shown prominently has had the number removed (which they didn't tell you in advance)
I had a month on Domain.com and Realestate.Com without one enquiry (actually me using a different email address) whereas the same text - including telephone number on (free) Gumtree yielded dozens of enquiries and ultimately the client.
Getting corrections made sometimes took too long especially when it was correcting a mistake from FSORBO in passing on my text to the real estate networks.
I AM VERY DISAPPOINTED IN THE RESULTS AND BELIEVE THAT THE WAY THAT FSORBO PRESENTED THE PROPERTY, BOTH THE SMALL SIZE OF THE PICTURES AND USING THEIR CONTACT POINT IN SURFERS PARADISE RESULTED IN MY GETTING NIL RESPONSES.
That's right - my unit was advertised thru FSORBO for 4 weeks on three websites and generated no phone or email responses (because they didn't show MY phone number - but theirs)
However an identical advertisement on a competitive FREE website (Gumtree) generated heaps of interest with the potential customers contacting me directly and eventually making the deal !!!
Save your money and use Gumtree.
Recent reviews
Easy & Effective! – I am a private landlord & used FSORBO to rent my property in Perth. It was easy to set up my advertisement with property details & photos. It went live within 2 hours & looked very professional. Their customer service is great! I received both a timely text message & email for every enquiry. These were well formatted making it easy to manage the… Read more · 1
volume of enquires. I received over 25 enquiries in a short period of time which confirmed to me that the advertisement received plenty of exposure on the 15+ sites it was listed on! It was well worth the $149 fee. I will definitely use FSORBO next time!
Great service and responsiveness – Made finding a tenant replacement for our lease easy and cost effective. Team were responsive and courteous. Website and platform are both a bit wonky, but everything works and the final result is what is important.
Great Service! – Outstanding experience all round. Highly Recommended! All requests to the site were answered promptly and we were notified of contact from potential buyers through both email and text message. Selling without an agent is hard work but worth every saved dollar in the end!
Highly Recommended – We are a resort & needed to list a Permanent Rental on realestate.com.au quickly & the price is in the thousands & NOT realistic for a one of, or the few times we need this service for a small business. A friend recommended FSORBW so that we could list our property via them. I called & spoke with Brett on Friday, $99 & the property was listed… Read more
on several sites within hours. The service was amazing, very prompt & efficient & nothing seems to be a problem.
We are yet to receive leads from the ad. however everything occurred late Friday afternoon & we have just had gorgeous weather over the weekend so it's no surprise. I have no doubt we will start booking inspections this week & find the right tenant very soon.
We sold our property! – I priced all of the providers that allowed real estate listings on Realestste.com. This one was the most cost effective. We chose the basic package as we are in a regional area and organised our own professional photos & had a sign printed locally. All requests to the site were answered promptly and we were notified of contact from potential… Read more
buyers through both email and text message.
Selling without an agent is hard work but worth every saved dollar in the end!
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Highly Recommended – Excellent coverage with a good response rate from potential interested parties. The ad looks great once posted into the website. Great response from support team throughout the process.
Excellent – Perfect way to rent your property! Newspaper ads resulted in absolutely NO enquiries but once I posted our property with For Sale or Rent by Owner, I received many calls. The website is easy to navigate and upload photos to, all my own emails seeking assistance were answered promptly and it cost less than $100. I listed two properties and the… Read more
first was rented within 3 days, the second took longer yet the ad resulted in taking many prospective tenants through the unit.
This is the ONLY way to lease your property- 5
Affordable and excellent service – I recently used this service to list a property for rent. I found the product is affordable compared to other providers.The service was really helpful, quick and easy for any changes or updates. Definitely recommend to use this service.
Excellent service & great help – I had a property that was listed last year. I couldn’t sell it until this year. During the 1.5 year the FSORBO constantly provides good service. Easy and quick response to change things & lists for opening inspection dates. They are very helpful for selling. Thank you very much FSORBO!
Great Service, responsive and easy to get stuff done – I recently used this service to list a property I had to sell. I found the service to be amazing, really helpful for changes and updates, easy to add open listings and really quick to send on the inquiries.
Affordable and fast service – For Sale or Rent by Owner is the best value way to advertise your property for rent. Their service is efficient and effective. I leased my property in one week without the ongoing 8% charge an agent would want.
Great, simple, and saved $$$$ – I wanted to avoid the commission to the real estate agents so I found FSORBO in a google search. One email later my property was live and I sold it within a week. The service was simple, all I had to do was upload a photo and fill in some info about the house. The buyers then just emailed and called me directly so I could show them through. There… Read more
isn't any need for support as anyone could fill out the simple forms.
I literally saved $19,100 in fees by spending $199 on this service.
Professional – The renting of out apartment was undertaken in a responsive and competent manner resulting in the lease being taken up in two days. We have had a similar positive experience with this company and will continue to be a customer. Show reply
Sold our home through For Sale or Rent.com – All was nice an easy we had a couple of replies and sold the house. setting it up was quick and easy. I'm a happy customer
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Brilliant immediate service whenever i had any changes to make to the listing – Very easy to list a property and extremely flexible in making any changes to the listing. I Highly recommend this to anyone property managing their own rental.
Great service, very useful! – This is a very useful service. I would have used it before in the past if it existed, or perhaps I just hadn't found it. I had plenty of replied to my ad, even my rental is very unusual. And the staff were very helpful for changes that needed to be made along the way.
Excellent value for money for a private landlord – I have used this service over and over and have had good results every time. And with the amount of exposure you get for your money it stands to reason you will succeed. I think I have listed six different times with near immediate results on all occasions. If you are only using Gumtree, then you are missing out on about 90% of the market so it is pretty much a no brainer to use this service.
Easy and Affordable – Great back up any queries or requests were handled efficiently and promptly. I have used another company previously but thought I would try someone different and was very happy.
So quick and easy to use – The team at FSORBO are very professional and courteous. All of my information was uploaded very quickly and changes were actually made within the 2hrs that they claim. I found a tenant at the first opening thanks to the great ad. A job well done everyone at FSORBO. Thank you so much. Graham Perth WA
Professional and Easy – This is the second time I have used this service, It was easy to upload information about our properties, any help needed was prompt and professional. I cant understand why more people don't have a go at selling their property with this site, highly recommend this service.
Great service – I have previously used another service to advertise my properties and decided to try someone else and found For sale or rent By Owner. This company is well priced and offer a fantastic service. I highly recommend them to everyone. Thanks again guys keep up the great service.
Professional and prompt service – I’ve used this service now on 5 occasions. Polite professional and prompt at a bargain price. Will recommend it to anyone and will certainly use again. Regards Carim
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