I was first licensed as an active real estate agent in March of 1994. Six years later, in February 2001, I decided to go on inactive licensee status. At that time I had seven resorts listed. I went inactive because in so many cases the hefty 10 percent real estate commission was enough to kill the deal. My goal was to find a better way to sell resorts. Rather than list resorts I decided to offer For Sale By Owner programs. I did this for four years and put many resorts on the market as a consultant.

During this four year period I continued to get many phone calls from people who wanted to buy resorts. Most of them wanted help from an experienced agent as they were not comfortable dealing with owners directly. A buyer would call me and ask questions about a resort that the owner had just shown them. Then, not long after I got off the phone with the prospective buyer, the owner of the resort the prospect had just called me about was on the phone asking me questions.

Because I my license was not active I could not answer their specific questions. After four years of this I finally realized that the For Sale By Owner solution was not a very good solution for most people, both owners and sellers. Using new technologies, I developed listing programs that would not require that expensive 10 percent commission. In April of 2005 I re-activated my real estate license and did away with the OMW For Sale By Owner program.

However, when I posted the For Sale By Owner advertisements on Cooley's Resorts For Sale, I promised owners the ad would stay up until their resort sold or they took it off the market. As is frequently the case, some resorts and tourism properties take time to sell. That is why you see For Sale By Owner ads on my site.

Regarding why there are other real estate agencies advertising on my site, those are For Sale By Owner ads that were taken over by real estate agents before I re-activated my license. I am honoring my promise to keep the ads up until the properties sell, or until the owners take them off the market. Once these properties sell you will no longer see any listings on Cooley's except my own property listings.

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