Somewhat of a combination of what I've read on this post...

1) Pay for an independant dollar value assessment of your house.

2) Do a little research on your own on houses that have sold in your
area. How fast and how much?

3) Go to 5 REA's. Show them your research and ask for their offer,
testimonials, references and services. Make sure they know that you
are seeing 4 other REA's and have a 6th option to sell yourself.

4)Pick the best!

=|JRM: It's important to remember that REA's are buy-side businesses. In other
words, it's how well they procure their raw materials that's the primary
determinate of their success -- not how well they dispose of them.

Of course, this is just a fancy way of saying that the success of a REA is
primarily determined by how good a job they do of securing listings. If a REA
can secure a big-enough book of listings (ideally on a sole-agency basis) it
will make money. These listings will sell sooner or later, after all.

Because the RE market is relatively efficient, REA's probably do more to
generate sales by talking-down vendors than they do by talking-up purchasers.

Of course, when vendors have conflicting goals (as per a previous post), and
when purchasers have more degrees of freedom it's easy to see why this is both
possible and necessary!|=