Author: Lawrence Bunnell | Total views: 1 Comments: 0
Word Count: 573 Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 1:16 AM

Selling A Home With Flat Fee Mls

When you are selling a home, there are a number of decisions that you need to make. Will you use a seller's agent? Or will you save money and include your home in the multiple listing service that real estate agents use with a Flat Fee MLS listing?

Selling a home with a Flat Fee MLS listing means that buyers' agents will be able to find your home when they are looking for property for their clients. Selling a home with a Flat Fee MLS listing will also ensure that buyers who are searching Realtor.com and similar services in order to buy a new home without using a buyer's agent will be able to learn about your property.

Even more importantly, however, selling a home with a Flat Fee MLS listing ensures that home sellers are in control.

When you sell your home using a Flat Fee MLS listing, you will know - up front - what the fee is paying for. You will also be able to choose additional products and services - also for a flat fee - that will help you to sell your home online.

You will be able to add features to your listing that will allow you to show prospective buyers more about your home. Some of these features that help sellers to sell a home online include: photo tours, virtual tours and even a website specific to your listing.

Similarly, you will be able to add products and services that will allow you to do more to market your home in print. For some, this will mean that you will have access to tools that allow you to create better newspaper ads for selling your home. For others, it will mean that you are able to design flyers that can be printed and posted in your area. For others still, adding lawn signs is an option.

Other services - such as a combination lock box - can be added to your Flat Fee MLS listing to better enable buyers' agents to show your property even when you are not home. Or, if you prefer to be at your home when prospective buyers see the property, you will be able to find tip sheets and suggestions for proper home staging and suggestions for hosting a more effective open house.

In other words, home sellers who utilize a Flat Fee MLS listing when they sell their home without a seller's agent, will have access to all of the same tools that a real estate agent would provide. Home sellers who utilize a Flat Fee MLS listing will find that, though they are still selling their homes on their own, they have a partner - a real estate service that lets them know what they should be looking out for as well as what they can do to make selling their home online a more manageable project.

Home sellers who sell a home with Flat Fee MLS services find that they have access to the help they need without extras that they don't. They also find that they save thousands over using sellers' agents.

If you've thought about selling your home with Flat Fee MLS but have not yet acted, what's stopping you? Get access to everything that you need, save thousands and sell your home your way.

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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Mon, 6 Aug 2007 at 9:00 PM, by flatfeemls
make sure you use flat fee mls listings http://www.listingflatfeemls.com has saved owners in 47 states thousands on MLS. List by owner on the MLS.

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