hen you are selling a Flat Fee MLS listing, you will
home, there are a number know - up front - what the fee is
of decisions that you paying for. You will also be able
need to make. Will you use a to choose additional products and
seller's agent? Or will you save services - also for a flat fee -
money and include your home in that will help you to sell your
the multiple listing service that home online.
real estate agents use with a
Flat Fee MLS listing? You will be able to add features
to your listing that will allow
Selling a home with a Flat Fee you to show prospective buyers
MLS listing means that buyers' more about your home. Some of
agents will be able to find your these features that help sellers
home when they are looking for to sell a home online include:
property for their clients. photo tours, virtual tours and
Selling a home with a Flat Fee even a website specific to your
MLS listing will also ensure that listing.
buyers who are searching
Realtor.com and similar services Similarly, you will be able to
in order to buy a new home add products and services that
without using a buyer's agent will allow you to do more to
will be able to learn about your market your home in print. For
property. some, this will mean that you
will have access to tools that
Even more importantly, however, allow you to create better
selling a home with a Flat Fee newspaper ads for selling your
MLS listing ensures that home home. For others, it will mean
sellers are in control. that you are able to design
flyers that can be printed and
When you sell your home using a posted in your area. For others
still, adding lawn signs is an that, though they are still
option. selling their homes on their own,
they have a partner - a real
Other services - such as a estate service that lets them
combination lock box - can be know what they should be looking
added to your Flat Fee MLS out for as well as what they can
listing to better enable buyers' do to make selling their home
agents to show your property even online a more manageable project.
when you are not home. Or, if you
prefer to be at your home when Home sellers who sell a home with
prospective buyers see the Flat Fee MLS services find that
property, you will be able to they have access to the help they
find tip sheets and suggestions need without extras that they
for proper home staging and don't. They also find that they
suggestions for hosting a more save thousands over using
effective open house. sellers' agents.
In other words, home sellers who If you've thought about selling
utilize a Flat Fee MLS listing your home with Flat Fee MLS but
when they sell their home without have not yet acted, what's
a seller's agent, will have stopping you? Get access to
access to all of the same tools everything that you need, save
that a real estate agent would thousands and sell your home your
provide. Home sellers who utilize way.
a Flat Fee MLS listing will find
About the Author:
Lawrence Bunnell is a Partner and the Principal Broker of IHS Realty, an Internet based, real estate brokerage company offering consumers online, flat-fee, 'a la carte' real estate brokerage products and services. Lawrence has been a full-time licensed REALTOR® since 1984 and is currently a licensed real estate broker in Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, Georgia, South Carolina and Pennsylvania. In addition to his role as the firm's Prinicipal Real Estate Broker, his duties include serving as the head of web application design and development and Internet marketing initiatives for IHS. http://www.ihsrealty.com/
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