For Sale By Owner Selling
For Sale By Owner (FSBO) saves sellers the expense of listing with a real estate broker and paying 6% or even 7% commission. In the seller's market of 2000-2004, selling For Sale By Owner was a successful strategy.
In the buyer's market of 2005-2009, FSBO sellers need more marketing than just a FSBO yard sign and an advertisement on craigslist.
Today, For Sale By Owner sellers are turning to another FSBO alternative which is flat fee MLS. Listing flat fee is similar to selling FSBO except the seller is offering the buyer's agent (Realtor®) a commission. Typically, flat fee sellers offer a 3% buyer's agent commission…but some do offer 2% or even 4%. The flat fee broker receives just the flat fee which ranges from $199-$500 depending on which service you use to list your property in the MLS. Flat fee MLS includes marketing in the MLS (Multiple Listing Service), Realtor.com and many other websites. The flat fee broker forwards all calls and buyer leads to the FSBO seller.
An ADDvantage 9 month flat fee MLS listing, is $349. This includes our legendary 8:00am-8:00pm 7 day a week guaranteed live phone support and buyer lead forwarding.
The FSBO with MLS seller gets the best of both worlds…the right to sell FSBO and pay no commission while gaining the exposure of being listed in the MLS.
Being listed flat fee has many other benefits as well, notably the Internet exposure. ADDvantage will also list your property in Realtor.com. Realtor.com is the largest and most prolific real estate website in America. All leads that are generated from your listing in Realtor.com will be forwarded to you. Once you receive a Realtor.com lead, or any lead from the list below, call the prospect and attempt to sell your home. If successful, no commission is due because this buyer is “unrepresented” by a Realtor®.
For the $349 flat fee, ADDvantage will also list your property in the following websites:
- Realtor.com
- Homes.com
- Yahoo Real Estate
- Trulia.com
- HarmonHomes.com
- Google Base
- Oodle.com
- Vast.com
- PropSmart.com
- Zillow.com
- Propbot.com
- HotPads.com
- Move.com
- MSN.com
- WallStreetJournal.com
- Juno.com
- Excite.com
- Iwon.com
- Craigslist.com
- CityCribs.com
- TheMoveChannel.co.uk (optional)
- WorldProperties.com (*Realtor.com Showcase properties only)
- Plus 100's of other MLS listing sites and local Realtor® sites
Selling FSBO is a lot more powerful and effective when you include the MLS. ADDvantage offers FSBO sellers 4 flat fee programs:
Deciding on which flat fee MLS listing service to use requires research. Please read our article “Want to make the right decision about which Florida MLS listing service is truly the best value but have no time to get your flat fee MLS Doctorate?”
Call us anytime and we'll explain why ADDvantage is your best choice for “For Sale By Owner” sellers for listing flat fee in the MLS. 727-942-2929 or 1-877-232-9695
