How To Sell Your Columbia SC Home Quickly at a margin

Sellers

How Can Real Estate Advocates Help Sell Your Home Quickly?

We believe that we can help you sell your home faster!

Listing Agents seldom sell their own listings as a majority of listings are sold through MLS. The top buying criteria are location, price and buyer traffic. Listing in newspapers, magazines and other print account primarily for Broker and Agent public relations and less about selling actual listed properties.

List Your For Sale By Owner home For Free on The Real Estate Advocates Websites

By utilizing one of our flat fee listing options you can improve on 3 of the critical selling criteria to speed up the selling of your home. With a flat fee listing:

1. You are listed in MLS in order to gain maximum local and national exposure for your property. (Over 75% of homes are sold are listed in MLS)

2. Would a 2-5% reduction in sales price or seller incentive increase the probability of selling your home? If so, with a flat fee listing with by owner option you can save over 5% on seller paid realtor commissions. As such, use this savings to reduce your selling price and stay at the same sellers net.

3. With less commissions to pay, you could offer an increase in buyer agent commission to incent buying agents to show your property. With a flat fee listing the savings in commission or a portion thereof can be offered to the buying agent without adversely effecting your sales price or your sellers net. So you can get more exposure without reducing your net.

Flat Fee Listing Options

		REA Website Listing	Local MLS Listing	List on Local Sites such as Remax, Century 21 and Others	List on National Sites (Realtor.com, Trulia, Zillow, Others)	Owner Option To Sell	Full Broker Assistance
Standard	Free	Until Sold	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	No
Basic	$ 49	Until Sold	2 Months	2 Months	2 Months	Yes	No
Gold	$299	Until Sold	12 Months	12 Months	12 Months	Yes	No
Platinum	$799	Until Sold	12 Months	12 Months	12 Months	Yes	Yes

*** Platinum Listings include lockbox, signage and full broker services that you would receive with a full commission agent.

Marketing Options

Lockboxes	Lockbox (only if participating with buying agents, includes $50 deposit)	$150
Directional Signs		$20
Open House Signs		$20
For Sale Signs		$35
For Sale Sign with 800 Info #	Add a sign to your property with it's own 800 # and extension to provide a 60 second recording, voicemail and email alerts for messages.	$100
Home Warranty	Most homes experience at least two mechanical failures each year. As a seller you’re protected while your home is on the market. Mechanical system listing failures are covered during the listing period for up to one year - you simply pay a low deductible. You have a marketing edge. A HSA Home Waranty can help sell your home faster and closer to your asking price. The warranty enhances your home’s value to prospective buyers and helps secure the best possible price for your home. You’re helping prevent post-sale disputes. If an unexpected failure occurs in your home after the sale, the buyer turns to HSA for the resolution instead of you.	$425
Virtual Tour	Enhance your listing. Let Real Estate Advocate craft a virtual tour for you to display on our site and include with your MLS listing. Sample Video 1 Sample Video 2	$150
15 Photos	Upgrade your free REA site listing to include an additional 15 photos.	$50
Broker Assistance	With the Real Estate Advocates Broker assistance program you have an experienced professional assisting you in the numerous complex parts of buying and selling a home. From contact negotiations, to multiple offers, inspections, mortgages, warranties, appraisals, surveys, title,lawyers, throughout the process, your agent or broker will assist for a flat fee when working with you as the seller depending on the local requirements of the MLS and state law. This is a small price for peace of mind from making costly mistakes.	$399

How Does A Flat Fee Listing Work?

	You engage the Real Estate Advocates as your listing Agent. We provide a free market analysis for your home.
	Real Estate Advocates lists your property in the local MLS, on our own For Sale By Owner Site and on National sites such as Realtor.com, Zillow and Trulia. This also includes listings on local Broker sites such as Remax, Century 21 and others. (Statistically 75% of homes sell through MLS and national site listings).
	By owners can utilize free disclosure forms and contract forms downloaded from our site. A sales price is negotiated of $150,000. Normal commission paid by the seller is 6%. So the total commission paid to the buying and selling agent is $9,000. (6% of $150,000)
	In a transaction where you are using Real Estate Advocates flat fee listing you would only pay the listing fee and not the entire commission. So you are grossing an additional $8,000+ in value.
	The real estate commission saving is yours. You could keep it or use it as a selling tool to assist in selling your home by offering closing costs, reducing the price or adding a sales incentive to a local agent to sell it. The savings is yours and it is your choice how to use it! You can use this savings to help you sell your home quicker.

60 Minutes reports on the Validity and Reality of Reduced Commission Models such as REA:

How Do I Get Started?

If you are currently in the process of selling your home, Real Estate Advocates can provide a free market analysis and recommend a flat fee limited to full service program.

If your home was previously listed at 6%? Do you think offering at a flat fee would give you more price flexibility to sell your home? Now you can.

Real Estate Advocates will assist in crafting an MLS listing and then submit the listing to the local MLS and to national sites such as Realtor.com, Zillow and Trulia.

We can get you into the same system that other agents use, but for a flat fee.

Have Questions or want to Get Started?

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