About claybyowner.com

Clay By Owner was established in January 2006 and is locally owned and operated by Steve Jones of Keystone Heights, Florida. Clay By Owner is an affiliate of FSBOinGainesville.com, which rapidly grew to reach thousands of potential home buyers searching for homes in the North Central Florida area, and has helped hundreds of area homeowners advertise their properties more effectively without paying a real estate commission. We expect the same high level of success for ClayByOwner.com. Clay By Owner is not a franchise of any national FSBO organizations. Although we are often mistaken with other national services with similar sounding names - we are the original and still the only locally operated For Sale By Owner Internet advertising service for the Clay County, Florida market.

Click here to learn more about how Steve Jones started Clay By Owner.

Use of the Internet to search for a home has risen dramatically over time, increasing from only 2% in 1995 to 77% in 2005; it was 74% in 2004. The next largest source of information for buyers is a yard sign, mentioned by 71% of buyers. - Smart Money Magazine

What if thousands of people a day could see that your home was on the market? What if in the first week over 500 of those people decided to take a Visual Tour of your home on the Internet? Do you think this could help your home sales efforts?

Well, that is exactly what Clay By Owner can do for you. Thousands of people a day visit our WEB site! Most of our clients' listings get over 200 visits the first few days they are on our site!

For a low one-time fee of $425 or LESS, we provide you with everything you need to sell your home successfully without a real estate agent ... saving $1000's in real estate commissions.

You will be able to offer your prospects a mini-open house Visual Tour on the Internet, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. And you don't even have to be there! Think of your time savings!! ... you will now be dealing with only people who are serious about buying your home.

Frequently Asked Questions:

How effective are you?
Very! We are built on the FSBOinGainesville.com Business Model which was established September 2000 and hundreds of properties in the Gainesville area have sold (several are still under contract).

Do you get much traffic to your WEB site?
Yes. Our marketing campaign will draw thousands of page views to our web site every day. Most of our clients get well over 100 - 200 "hits" to their listing during their first week. That's like having 100-200 people taking a Virtual Open House Tour of your home - without having to clean up each time!

How Do home buyers find your site on the Internet?
Several different ways:

Buyers searching the Internet for a home: We are featured on most major search engines including two of the most popular - Yahoo and Google.
Buyer Notification Alerts - Registered buyers are <<alerted>> immediately by e-mail of your new listing!
Clay County Chamber of Commerce
Your listing will be marketed to all 'newcomers' to the Clay County area that request information through the Chamber of Commerce. We mail details of our property listings to all on this list from the Chamber twice a month!
Yellow Pages - Our display ad will appear in the next printing of the Bell South Yellow Pages.
Drive-by prospects - We provide high quality yard signs that encourage prospects to visit your Web page listing to see your Virtual Tour
Florida Times Union readers - We encourage our clients to place short "teaser ads" in the Florida Times Union which point to their Web page listing
Word of Mouth - many of our satisfied advertisers help us very much by recommending us! Click here to read success stories!

Can you provide 360 degree pictures like they do on some real estate web sites?
Yes!! For an additional one time fee of $125 we can provide up to 4 different areas of your property to be displayed on your Web page listing in spinning 360 degree. Click here for an example

What other benefits are there to listing our home on your site?
You are in total control! You schedule appointments with only serious prospects. If a potential buyer has taken a Virtual Tour of your home online before you schedule an appointment with them you will be more assured of working with a serious buyer.

We reach a broader audience by leveraging the power of the Internet - Many of our listings have sold to out of town buyers.

How long does it take to sell a home on your site?
Average sell time is 2-3 months. We do a very effective job of getting your home local and world wide additional exposure through your Web page listing on the Internet. Your location, price, and how your home shows are critical factors that will determine how long it will take to to sell it. Click here for tips and resources

Do you have any testimonials of people who have used your service?
We sure do!! Click here to read some of our Success Stories of people in the Clay County area that have sold their property themselves using our service!

Is there any commission to pay?
No!! We are not a real estate agency

How much does it cost and is there anymore to pay after the home has sold?
Probably less than you think. We have a flat fee of only $425. The cost is only $340 if you provide digital pictures and your own descriptive text. Your property will stay listed on our web site until it sells with nothing more to pay - EVER!

Can I talk with someone personally?
Of course! We are locally owned and operated. My name is Steve Jones and I am a Keystone Heights resident. Please feel free to contact me with any questions at 352-473-2626 or e-mail me at sales@ClayByOwner.com

Sounds great. How do I get started?
Easy. Just give us a call to schedule your photo shoot. We can normally schedule your photo shoot within 2-3 days of your call. The photo shoot normally takes about 1 hour. We have most of our clients up on the Web within 2 days of their photo shoot