Archive for October, 2007

How to build a better website? Open your ears, your visitors know!

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

You have an incredible idea that would bring your visits on ByTheOwner to a greater level of satisfaction? You think many other visitors share your need?

Welcome to the suggestion box!

This new section, dedicated to our visitors, is online since yesterday. We’ve been using it for a couple of weeks with suggestions from our staff and got pretty interesting results, so we decided to open it up to the visitors! Here is how it works :

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Make your home green, and make money!

Monday, October 1st, 2007

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Remodeling an existing home, rather than building a new one, is the ‘greenest’ decision a homeowner can make. Open land is preserved and the energy required to make the materials for a new house (concrete, lumber, metals, plastics) is saved.

Another excellent post about green living, read at real-estate-bloggers.com »

My inspiration, another great testimonial!

Monday, October 1st, 2007

SAVED $20,400 !! How is that possible? Well, we were given some free advice by an agent and were highly advised to accept a 190k offer. We had a 190k and a 192k offer and refused both. We sold for $199,000! Had we gone with this agent, we would have lost $9000 on the sale price and still had to pay the $11,400 commission. CRAZY, EH?! Thanks to DuProprio.com/ByTheOwner.com we have $20,400 more in our pockets… and they also take professional pictures - unlike most agents.

Regards, Mike and Hyunsoo Montreal, QC

Hyunsoo Shim
Pierrefonds
2007-03-14