For Sale By Owner / Flat Fee MLS Listings

List your property in the MLS for a listing fee as low as $495 instead of agreeing to pay a another Realtor 6%. Pay an agent who brings you a buyer 3% (Or more if you wish). If you find a buyer, you don't pay any commission at all! (We'll let you do the math of 6% of the value of your home versus $495.)

You get a professional MLS listing with all the essentials that 6% agents provide, PLUS all the cost saving benefits of selling as a "For Sale By Owner".

No matter how much another real estate company charges you, your listing will be placed in the same MLS, PLUS your listing will appear on literally thousands of other websites that display MLS listings, including realtor.com, homegain.com, yahoo.com, msn.com, aol.com. coldwellbanker.com,  remax.com and more.

If you list with a typical 6% Realtor, and the property sells, you pay the whole 6%, even if the buyer is your brother-in-law, and the Realtor didn't do anything other than put his sign in the yard and enter the listing in MLS. It gets worse - if you read the fine print in the typical 6% listing contract, you'll notice that you owe the entire commission if you want to cancel your listing early (perhaps because the agent didn't do anything), or if you lease the home without the agent's permission! The main reason so many sellers sign such contracts is that they never read them.

Why being listed in MLS is so important

1. MLS stands for "Multiple Listing Service", and is "the real estate market".

2. Over 90% of all properties sold in the US are as a result of MLS listing exposure.

3. Being listed in MLS means all the local Realtors can find your home in their MLS database.

4. Buyers can find your home on thousands of public MLS websites, where they are most likely to be searching for a home.

5. MLS listed properties (for sale by owner or not) sell faster and for more money than non-MLS listed "for sale by owner" properties.

Why a Flat Fee MLS Listing is better than listing with a 6% Realtor

1. You get the same MLS listing in the same local MLS for a one-time low Flat Fee instead of 6%.

2. If you sell your home without a buyer's agent involved, there is zero commission.

3. More exposure on hundreds of national MLS websites. Many 6% Realtors limit the exposure to public websites to increase their chances of getting the entire 6% commission.

Why we are the best choice for Flat Fee MLS Listing services

1. We are one of the first companies providing this service, so you can have a secure feeling that we won't disappear during the term of your listing. Since we started in 2000, many others have come and gone (especially the cheap-cheap ones).

2. We are easy to reach by phone. Most online companies cut costs by avoiding answering the phone, or you can only reach them by email. It can be very frustrating when you have a problem and can't talk to anyone.

3. 99.9% customer satisfaction rate (100% is impossible because some people are impossible to please).

4. NO HIDDEN FEES - We let you know what's included before you sign up so there are no surprises.

What is "MLS"?

MLS stands for "Multiple Listing Service". Most people refer to MLS as if it were all one big database of homes. Actually there are over a thousand individual MLSs across the country; some big, some small. They are all separate from each other, so a Realtor who looks on his local MLS in Boston can't see the listings in the Miami MLS. That's why it's so important to be listed in the correct local MLS. There are many national websites, like Realtor.com, that aggregate listings from all these 1000 MLSs, and put them all on one giant website. Some information, such as commissions offered to agents and owner contact information, is only displayed on the local MLS for agents to see, and not the national public websites.

Why you need a Realtor to list your home in MLS

Only a licensed real estate broker who belongs to the MLS and pays the MLS dues and fees is able to list a property. An individual can't simply post an "ad" in MLS, like placing an ad in a newspaper. The real estate broker is also responsible for the accuracy of the listing, and keeping it current. For example, the broker can lose his MLS membership or pay heavy fines if a property is under contract or sold, but still listed as "Active" in MLS. When you list with us, a licensed broker who belongs to the MLS where your property is located will be assigned to your listing.

Why a 6% Realtor rarely produces a buyer

It's quite rare that the listing agent sells your property, as 19 out of 20 times the sale takes place when an unknown real estate agent brings a buyer as a result of the MLS listing. Most 6% agents won't admit this to sellers. The truth is the typical sales process which leads to a real estate sales contract and successful sale really has little, if anything, to do with who the listing agent is.

It's simple math because your buyer (most of the time) finds your property on one of the many public websites in his local area that display MLS listings, or the Realtor the buyer is working with finds it for him in MLS.

Your local MLS has perhaps hundreds or even thousands of brokers and agents, so the mathematical probability of any one random agent (the listing agent) to just happen to be working with a buyer who fits with your home is very slim. That's why it makes no sense to agree to pay a huge commission just to list a property.

In those 1 out of 20 instances when the 6% listing agent does bring the buyer, it's only because his phone number happens to be on the yard sign or the internet, not because of any special marketing effort.