Thanks to Frank K. for sending us a link to
Emongoo in the comments of our
Google real estate mashup post. I have no idea what Emongoo is supposed to mean (except for a formerly-available URL with a .com extension), but I can tell you it's pretty cool for what it does. Emongoo is a home listing site that gives you a place for your home, 20 images, and will send you a "For Sale" sign. All of this is free, except for the shipping and handling on the physical sign. As someone who is not looking forward to selling his house in the next year, I can tell you this is awfully nice... Unfortunately, Emongoo isn't very popular yet. Homes in my area aren't really available on the site, but again, that's a result of the newness (and relative backwardness of my location). There are handy links to a mortgage calculator, an actual mortgage company, map info, and Zestimate, which is a decent house estimator so you can compare the asking price with the estimated price. You can do a map search, and there's live support available. How do they do it? Well, Emongoo does all this for free but wants to upsell you on their services. The main service is a coaching feature, where they'll work with you on selling your home. The coaching starts at a little over $600. Another service, called e-vision, takes video of your home (which you shoot with a provided camera) and an "aesthetics professional" will suggest some ways to make the home show better. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a price for this service.
Tags: emongoo, home, house, real estate, RealEstate
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Subscribe to commentsWesMay 9th 2006 7:05PM
Victor,
Thank you for the post. Let me answer a few things. First of all we just launched in Jan. 2006, so we are new and are growing fast. Keep up with us on our blog. www.emongoo.com/blog . As for the pricing on the e-coaching and e-vision...the e-vision is included in the e-coaching, so the cost on that is $625.00. You can find a full list of things we offer at www.emongoo.com/fsboStore.php . As for "free" our service is free. If you want you can 'upgrade' your account with, video tours, property stats, featured listing and much more. The service is free if you just want to post you home.
As for the traffic to our site we are growing on that as well. Check out our Alexa ranking for a 3rd party on our traffic, but we are getting thousands of hits a day and average just above 3 million hits a week. Keep checking us out. We are launching a new feature to the site tomorrow.
WillMay 10th 2006 1:45AM
Lame... FSBO sites keep fragmenting and mostly failing. Craigslist is perhaps the most succesful FSBO site going but there are very few buyers who have the experience or the patience to succesfully complete without the assistance of a local expert. I don't understand why anyone would bother with such a thing when there are realtors out there selling access to the MLS for less than $600.