- The cost of the service is $499.00 and is for a six-month consecutive term or until the property is sold, leased, or taken off the market or you list your investment property or business with a real estate broker, whichever occurs first. You may add an additional six-month consecutive term for $75.00 while your account remains active.
a. If you decide to list with a real estate broker, you agree to notify Living Connecticut immediately so we may take down the listing and close the account.
2. Once you sign up for the service, you’ll create a login and password for your account and be taken to your Dashboard, giving you access to all your real estate tools and information. After that, you’ll be taken to the Dashboard to manage your account each time you login.
3. As an account holder, you will be responsible for creating your For Sale or Lease by Owner listing, one listing per account, filling in all the information about your investment property or business, adding pictures, notes, your open house schedule, and contact information in real-time. Once you save your listing, it will be posted under Search Properties/For Sale or Lease by Owner Commercial & Business.
4. A professional “For Sale by Owner”, “For Lease by Owner”, or “Business for Sale” sign, with your phone number added, will be on loan to you. The sign and its post will typically be installed on your property within four business days from the time of confirmation of your account. There are exceptions where there could be a delay, for example, if there is an incorrect address, bad weather, or other circumstances, but that’s the exception. (Note: New Canaan and Greenwich have special sign requirements that can take a week to ten business days to have your sign installed.)
a. If your business is in a private association or community, it will be your responsibility to check the rules and regulations to be sure signs are permitted on the property.
5. If the sign or post is damaged, including vandalism, car damage, beyond normal wear and tear, or not available for pick up at the end of your listing, you agree to pay Living Connecticut $100.00 for its replacement.
6. With your account, you’ll get your own web address, specific to your property, linked to your listing, which will be added to your “For Sale or Lease by Owner” sign so that people driving by can pull up your listing in real-time.
a. No web address signs or riders are permitted in the towns of Greenwich or New Canaan, but we will be happy to send a brochure box in its place that can be hung on the signpost for you to make copies of your listing available to buyers where you can include your listing’s web address.
7. One “Open House” sign is included. You’ll have the option to have the day and time of your open house printed on your sign or leave it blank. If you know, for example, you’ll be holding your Open Houses on Sundays from 12pm-3pm, have the day and time or just the day printed on the sign; otherwise, leave it blank.
8. One “Business for Sale“, “Commercial Property for Sale”, or “Commercial Property for Lease” directional sign is included, whichever is applicable.
9. Your “Open House” sign, directional sign, and web address and phone number sign will be shipped to you separately and typically will arrive ten business days from confirmation of your account since they are signs specific to your property. It will be your responsibility to slide the phone number and web address rider in the slot along the top side of the sign’s post.
a. Greenwich and New Canaan sign regulations are specific in that the only words allowed are “For Sale by Owner” or “For Rent by Owner” with your phone number. Open House signs are permitted but only for the day of the event and must be posted directly on your property.
10. You will have access to the Open House Schedule, where you will be responsible for posting your public Open House events on this site in real-time. Should you need to change or reschedule your public Open House(s), you’ll have access to do so. Each time you post a new Open House event and save it, it will automatically be included on your listing, so buyers will have access to your open house schedule when they pull up your listing.
11. You may cancel the service at any time. Since most of the work is done upfront, there are no refunds.
12. Living Connecticut’s For Sale by or Lease by Owner Service is an advertising platform so:
a. With the For Sale or Lease by Owner Service, Living Connecticut isn’t representing you or your property or business. We are not acting as your real estate agent or broker, and we will not be paying a real estate commission, nor will we be asking for one, and we do not provide legal or appraisal services.
b. Living Connecticut is not responsible for any management, maintenance, or upkeep of your physical property.
c. Living Connecticut is not responsible for your showings, open houses, visitors, loss, or damage due to your home, property, or business being posted on this site. You’ll be responsible for selling your property and all its representations.
13. You are responsible for the information in your For Sale or Lease by Owner listing. No unlawful content, inaccuracies, or misrepresentations are permitted. If this happens, you’ll be asked to correct your listing. Any fees or purchases will be nonrefundable if you refuse, and your service will be terminated.
14. We reserve the right to edit, restrict, or remove any information deemed inappropriate or offensive at Living Connecticut’s discretion, for any reason, at any time.
15. Living Connecticut and its owners, officers, and agents shall be indemnified and held harmless by you from any claims or litigation resulting from any matters relating to this Service Agreement.
16. You are 18 or older and are the legal owner of the property you are listing/posting and all the material and information you submit you own or control rights to.
17. If you’d like an enhanced version of this service and list your home on the Realtor’s® MLS go to the “Sellers’s Multiple Listing Service”.
18. If you’d like to proceed and create your For Sale or Lease by Owner account, please fill out the form below and click SEND to go to your payment options and thereafter, you will be returned to the site to create your login and password and be taken to your dashboard where you will manage your account.
19. STATEMENTS REQUIRED BY LAW – This agreement is subject to the Connecticut General Statutes prohibiting discrimination in commercial and residential real estate transactions (C.G.S. Title 46a, Chapter 814c, as the same may be amended from time to time.) It is unlawful under federal and/or state law to discriminate on the basis of race, creed, or religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, civil union status, age, lawful source of income, intellectual disability, learning disability, mental disability or physical disability, familial status and status as a veteran.
20. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY – Under no circumstances shall you, or any other person or entity, be entitled to damages whether in tort, contract or otherwise, with respect to anything contained or referred to in this document/contract in excess of $499.00 in the aggregate with respect to all such persons and entitles including their costs and attorney fees.
