From the very beginning to the end of the home selling process, we are here to answer your basic real estate questions. Our home selling system is designed for the first time home seller with no real estate knowledge.
The Flat Fee MLS Home Selling Process
From the very beginning to the end of the home selling process, we are here to answer your basic real estate questions. Our home selling system is designed for the first time home seller with no real estate knowledge.
To sell a property through our program, a seller will:
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Order our service on our website or by calling us.
As a flat fee home sale Broker, we focus on communicating what is included in our service. The other day someone asked the opposite question—what is not included in a flat fee listing? That is a really good question, so let's have at it:
First, let's eliminate some misconceptions about what is included in traditional Realtor service with the huge commission.
The seller decides how to receive showing requests (* recommended)
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by telephone call,
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email *, or
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text message * (subject to availability)
Buyer Agents request showings like they do for any MLS listed property, in the way they are used to.
How Real Estate Commissions Work when Selling
Traditional Real Estate
In a traditional real estate transaction, you would pay an average of 6% commission at closing to your agent. For a $200,000 home, that's $12,000 of your equity!
Yes, our service includes free changes. Simply let us know what you would like changed, and we will submit the changes to the MLS for processing. For some changes, the MLS will require a seller signature to make the change. The MLS listing changes sometimes takes a few days to be visible across all the different places your listing information appears.
No. Our recommendation is that sellers follow the industry standard procedure and not be there for agent showings (by using a lockbox and the industry security protocol). This creates the ideal selling environment and makes offers more likely. For showings requested from buyers not working with an agent, a seller has options:
Yes, our licensee can answer your basic real estate questions about your listing or transaction.
Yes. While thousands of our home sellers do not report an increase in telemarketing calls as a result of listing, we can help sellers set up a new forwarding telephone number to give out and post that forwards to your current phone number. Remember, once you list with us agents are not allowed to solicit you to list with them, so many of our sellers report fewer marketing calls once they list with us.
Flat Fee MLS Listing Video:
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