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BuySelf Realty recently passed a significant milestone--our 15,000th listing. We are honored and feel privileged to be one of the pioneers and survivors of the flat fee MLS movement, if you can call it that.
As you can imagine, 15,000 different people who have used our service to sell a property all had a different situation-sellers have listed multi-million dollar luxury properties to the...
Many of the questions we get from home sellers haven't changed in the last decade:Where do buyers look for homes to buy?How do buyers find a home to buy?How can I make sure buyers know my home is for sale?How do buyer agents find a home for their buyers?What is the Multiple Listing Service?How do I find a buyer for my home?Most of these questions revolve around the same answer. The Multiple...
Sometimes a person who wants to sell their home but has not listed it in MLS asks me "Why should I list it in the MLS? I offer a comparable buyer agent commission to any agent that brings me a buyer."
The best way to answer that question is with a story. We list lots and lots of sellers who tried selling a home without the MLS, but were not successful. My favorite question to ask these...
Yesterday I was honored to accept an award on behalf of the entire BuySelf Realty team. It was the "Award of Excellence" for online marketing from the world leader in real estate marketing, Realtor.com. It was humbling to be among the handful selected for the great work our team does marketing our sellers properties on the internet.
Since the beginning, BuySelf Realty has focused on being the...
The past few years our flat fee MLS listing business has seen a huge influx of sellers who first tried to sell their home without any professional help and without a Multiple Listing Service (MLS) listing. Most of these people had put a sign in their yard, and maybe put an ad in a newspaper and maybe a few other things to try to sell their home.
Unrepresented sellers reach a point where they...
I (and my team) spend lots of time helping sellers every day. So I am very familiar with explaining some of the terminology that often confuses buyers, sellers, and more often then you would think agents. I''m sure most flat fee MLS listing Brokers are. If you have terms you have found confusing please email them to me as I am sure I am just scratching the surface here.
None of the terms or...
Since the very beginning of being a flat fee broker, I have been surprised at how many traditional real estate agents use our flat fee listing service to sell their own properties. Yes, I think a flat fee MLS listing is an outstanding and incredible value, but I never really figured that agents who as their job ask people to pay 5%, 6% or more would not make sure they themselves paid that price...
One common question that comes up with our home sellers is "How do I make a counter proposal to an offer I have received?" First, it is helpful to review the basics of offer and acceptance in real estate:
When a buyer presents a purchase agreement form fully completed and signed by the buyer, it is referred to as an offer. Purchase agreements are also known as purchase contract, sale...
Today I will be coaching home sellers through an important detail that is easy and potentially costly to overlook: How agents can view your home when it is listed in the MLS.
Putting any additional difficulty in the way of agents to schedule a showing of your home is not a good idea as you can lose out on showings. Remember, losing a showing means you lose a potential buyer: Just like in...
Our company, actually the main website we advertise on http://FlatFeeMLSListing.com was featured in this excellent article for CNN Money recently. The article does a good job dispelling the misconception that flat fee MLS listing doesn't work in a buyers market. It tells how the stories of sellers putting their home on the market, getting 60 showings and 10 offers after the first weekend (yes,...