Any agents want to list our home? (days on market, flat fee)

[Dross99_si]

We live in Tradition. PM me if you'd like to be our listing agent

[SeetheUSA]

I strongly recommend FlaLadyB. She has been selling the Treasure Coast for many years and is well versed on sales in the area. I also recommend Keli Santiago with Keller Williams. Great team that sold my house in less than 24 hrs and OVER asking price!

http://keli.kwrealty.com/

[aridon]

List with a flat fee agent and offer 3% to the buyers agent. You can get on MLS for around $300-400 or so and every other important site.

You'll be handling the showings anyway unless you are away, in which case put a lock box and be done with it.

No reason to pay 1-3% for a sellers agent anymore.

We've sold multiple properties that way and never had any issues. Title does most of the leg work and if you can read at an 8th grade level you can fill out the contract yourself. That or pay an attorney $150 to review it for you. Either way, better than paying the listing broker.

[FlaLadyB]

and if you don't know what you're doing you can get yourself in tons of legal trouble in a heartbeat.

It's a LOT more involved than you make it out to be.

[aridon]

Originally Posted by FlaLadyB

and if you don't know what you're doing you can get yourself in tons of legal trouble in a heartbeat.

It's a LOT more involved than you make it out to be.

No it isn't and you can pay an attorney $200 to look at the contract for an hour and still be thousands ahead of the high school graduate trying to pimp your house for 2 to 3%. But yeah you might miss out on that tiny picture in the paper that no one reads anymore, OH NO!!

[beach43ofus]

Originally Posted by FlaLadyB

and if you don't know what you're doing you can get yourself in tons of legal trouble in a heartbeat.

It's a LOT more involved than you make it out to be.

I found it to be EZ, and I saved $17,000 on listing agent commissions by using a discount broker. I spent about $1,600 on 4 pro's...lawyer, photographer, inspector, & appraiser. I also spent ~10 hours of my own time to save the $17,000, so in effect, I made $1,700/hr! Got a good price w/ avg days on market.

[FlaLadyB]

aridon, I'm sure thats why we constantly have additional classes to take on the latest changes in laws (given by attorneys and the Florida Real Estate Commission) and things that can and do happen with contracts (also given by an attorney).

If you can find an attorney to cover you on all the things that happen and should happen and could happen with a contract for $200....God help you and that attorney.

[rolsinski]

Originally Posted by FlaLadyB

aridon, I'm sure thats why we constantly have additional classes to take on the latest changes in laws (given by attorneys and the Florida Real Estate Commission) and things that can and do happen with contracts (also given by an attorney).

If you can find an attorney to cover you on all the things that happen and should happen and could happen with a contract for $200....God help you and that attorney.

Remember aridon is an expert on everything, but most of the time he does not know what he is talking about, $200 attorney for an hour, he must get them online from India.

[aridon]

Originally Posted by FlaLadyB

aridon, I'm sure thats why we constantly have additional classes to take on the latest changes in laws (given by attorneys and the Florida Real Estate Commission) and things that can and do happen with contracts (also given by an attorney).

If you can find an attorney to cover you on all the things that happen and should happen and could happen with a contract for $200....God help you and that attorney.

There are plenty of legal services online and my corporate attorney charged right at $200 / hr for document reviews. That rate is pretty average for a simple contract review. He isn't drafting the ****ing thing its standard contract. He isn't doing the closing.

Regardless, most of the flat fee brokers offer advice and depending on the package you purchase you can usually let them handle the contract portion for a few hundred more. Regardless, much better than having to pay 1-3% for a listing agent to enter you into MLS. There is the option for being hand held by an agent if you like and it is still less!

You have a vested interest in the system remaining as it was. I understand that. Fortunately the market is making listing agents obsolete and the days of paying an agent 3% to list and 3% to the buyers agent are coming to an end.

If the OP wants to pay you 2% or whatever your City Forum rate is that is up to them. Personally, I think it is a waste.

I can pay the flat fee guy less, get his advice if I need to pay for it and still pay far less than you doing the listing. What exactly am I getting for your full service listing fee that he isn't giving me? Nothing.

Let me add, I have no issue paying the selling agent 3% or even 3.5%. I always pay them well because they do the actual work of selling, dealing with crappy clients that go to showings and then ping off to buy with a different agent months down the road. I have sympathy for them. I have little respect for listing agents charging 1-3% just to put someone on MLS and relay phone messages. If I can tell you a 3pm showing is fine, I can tell the buyers agent the same thing.

[FlaLadyB]

you really are arrogant, and as the other poster said, an expert on everything, so you would like people to think.

I've been a Realtor for over 30 years- on both the listing sides and the selling sides, designed and built my own house (actually worked with the subcontractors), and so so much more. You would like to belittle my job and apparently me as well, but fortunately, I have seen way too many others just like you and it just makes me shake my head in amazement.

You want to make people think that selling or buying a house is as simple as filling out a piece of paper and waiting for the house to close. Way way WAY far from reality. You forget to tell people (or, maybe you don't know) that leaving out something in a contract, a word, a clause, a signature, can mean the difference in a sale or a lawsuit.
A few simple words that are added (not fill in the blank) can mean the difference in who pays for what or what happens IF and WHEN something else comes up when the title company looks for things to make a clear title. Nobody is going to give you "advice" for a couple of hundred bucks, certainly not an attorney.

As far as what a listing agent does vs what a selling agent does, well, you have it wrong there again. The listing agent is the one doing all the work covering your butt from the beginning to make sure everything is done till the actual closing - start to finish. Even making sure the Buyer is a real Buyer and shows that they actually have money and proof that a Lender will give them a mortgage. Again...and so so much more.

Lots of time the listing agent is also the selling agent - nice when it is - so ALL the things that need to be done and watched over, and arranged, and attended, are on the one person. All the things that happen along the way that you don't always hear about except when we say....I took care of it.

Oh... and I don't work for City-Data in any way.

Anyhow... all of us Realtors have a saying ....we could write a book about the things we see and do, but nobody would believe us.

It's late and I actually have a full day of Real Estate classes tomorrow - by choice- because I need to keep up on all the changes in laws that are happening in regard to Real Estate, the Florida Real Estate Commission, and Keeping It Legal, even after 30 plus years of doing real estate.

As Anna Rosanna Danna said....It's always something!

Good night