Do you have a good school, day care, assisted living facility or gym next to your house? You may consider posting an ad about your home sale on the bulletin board of this place. Or emailing all the parents from your kid’s class. Use of the www.OptimalHomeLocation.com tool shows that for most of the families optimal home location would be close to the place they visit most – school, day care or gym. For some of us it may not be logical. When we were looking for our first house, with two working adults and one child in the day care, we thought that middle of the triangle in-between all the addresses we visit throughout a day is more of a fair deal. We did not realize that we usually visit day care twice a day while our offices once. We have been looking across many different neighborhoods, until I mapped out all our commutes, created a set of equations and realized that we all would travel less if we live close to the day care. We nailed our house a couple of months later, and now everyone can do similar calculation using this great tool.
Most of the potential customers for you home-for-sale are people that already live in the area and frequently visit places in your neighborhood (schools, day care, supermarkets), or people that are planning to move to your area and one of the first places they frequently contact are schools. Look for private or public schools. Leave a note about your house-for-sale at the office, in case someone will be inquiring. Unfortunately there is no direct way right now (as far as I know) how schools and real estate offices can collaborate together. Too bad, since if we find a way, perhaps realtors can sponsor local schools while schools bring them their clients and relocating people would have just one stop.
