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I will coach you on how sell your Orlando home flat fee MLS

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

I will coach you on how sell your Orlando home flat fee MLS

I have developed a technique that is working well throughout Florida, including Orlando, to sell your home at the maximum price using our hybrid flat fee MLS listing plan ADDvantage Success™.

Here’s how it works. I help you establish an initial list price. We are members of the Mid-Florida Regional MLS. Then, I assist you in fine tuning your price so we attract the maximum amount of showings.

Once I have the showing coming, our system collects valuable Realtor feedback which we use to adjust our price within range of where the buyers will make offers.

The reason my pricing methodology works so well is I also coach the buyer’s agents to bring their offers in at full-price once we have set the sales price at the “final bottom line price.”

This extra and some may say “unusual” coaching of the buyer’s agents helps them to land a deal. It saves them time so their buyer clients don’t attempt a low ball offer on our “finely tuned” price.

What I do is make the buyer’s agents trust me that I know what my seller will be willing to accept. Once I have their confidence, it’s just a matter of convincing their buyer.

His technique saves time on the market and gets the home sold faster. Sellers want to sell; buyers wants to buy; and Realtors want the commission. I help all parties get on the same page without wasting time.

The flat fee MLS listing plan that I recommend is ADDvantage Success™. It allows me to engage the seller at a “full-service” level where I handle all calls, appointment setting, contract negotiations right through closing.

ADDvantage Success™ is our most aggressive and success flat fee MLS plan in Florida. The cost is $699 upfront and $699 at close. Because our agents help sell the home as well, if we find the buyer, we waive the $699 at close fee.

We have a list of the best agents throughout Florida. The agents are called “Agent Activate” agents because when we have a buyer for an ADDvantage Success™ listing we refer that buyer to one of our local “Agent Active” agents. This system works because the seller only pays one commission and they get the bets agents to close the deal.

Call any time for questions or visit our ADDvantage Success™ website. ADDvantage Success™ is the way real estate should be…One commission for the buyer’s agent, great Internet marketing and hands on coaching.

1-877-232-9695

Ps…we also have flat fee MLS listing plans starting at $179.

ADDvantage®, an Orlando, Florida “By Owner” and Flat Fee MLS listing Service, introduces a new innovation in discount real estate called ADDvantage Success™.

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

ADDvantage®, an Orlando, Florida “By Owner” and Flat Fee MLS listing Service, introduces a new innovation in discount real estate called ADDvantage Success™.

This unique MLS listing plan has all the features of a full-service listing but you pay a low price of $499.

This offer exceeds all other flat rate offers because you don’t sacrifice service and you only offer a commission to the buyer’s agent.

ADDvantage Success™ guarantees Orlando sellers the most powerful Internet marketing available on important websites such as Homes.com Realtor.com, MSN Craigslist, Vast, Yahoo, Zillow, AOL Oodle, RSS feeds, IDX feeds and many more features to help u sell faster.

 

Highlights of ADDvantage Success™

  • 9 month MLS listing in the Mid Florida Regional MLS - Orlando’s MLS. You can cancel anytime with no fee or other complications.
  • Agent Assure®…We guarantee you’ll never miss a Realtor® showing. Agent Assure® is our concierge showing service. We schedule and confirm all showings for so you only communicate with ADDvantage®, never a Realtor®. We are here 7 days a week…Even Saturday and Sunday. Your exact showing instructions will be given to Realtors® just they way you want. And, an email sent for your records. ($199 value, free with ADDvantage Success™)
  • Feedback…Orlando home sellers need feedback from Realtor® showings. Our system will automatically send an email to each Realtor® that shows your home requesting feedback. ($99 value, free with ADDvantage Success™)
  • Agent Activate®…Local expertise and knowledge helps you sell faster. Our local agent knows your home and you. They will never miss an opportunity to show and sell your home. If one of our agents is successful selling your property, we will REFUND the ADDvantage Success™ $499 fee at closing. Our Agent Activate® service engages our best Orlando agents or local affiliate to work with each buyer prospect. You pay only the offered buyer’s agent commission, the same commission you are offering any agent (which is typically 3%). If our agent sells, we take the deal from contract-to-close. Our agents will pre-qualify buyers, show your property, write the offer, negotiate the offer, inspection and inspection related negotiating, if any, assist with financing, work with your title company or real estate lawyer and complete the closing in a professional manor. Having an agent help with negotiatons often results in a higher sales price, a faster sale and less hassles.
  • Broker Assist… Advice 7 days a week. If an offer comes from an outside buyer’s agent, other than ADDvantage®, our house broker will consult, advise, review the contract, check for missing disclosures and assist in the closing. There will be a transaction fee of $395 at closing if this occurs. (A $799 value)
  • Street Smart ADDvantage®…Powerful and Effective Realtor® eblast. Since 2005, ADDvantage® has been promoting properties throughout Florida by email. This email, called the Street Smart ADDvantage® eblast, is reserved for sellers offering a 4% or greater buyer’s agent commission. Twice a month, most local Orlando Realtors® within 35 miles of your property will receive the eblast. Street Smart ADDvantage® is the best read Realtor-to-Realtor email in Orlando, Florida. (A $599 value, free with ADDvantage Success™)
  • An Exclusive Right of Sale Listing in MLS, not an Exclusive Agency. At times, “by owner” listings are passed over because Orlando Realtors® perceive them as too much work. While there is only a slight chance of this occurring to your listing, the cost savings of listing flat fee in the MLS far outweigh any possible lost showings. But, why loose a Realtor® showing when there is a solution? List the property in the Orlando Mid-Florida MLS as an Exclusive Right of Sale Listing, NOT as an Exclusive Agency…Which is how all flat fee listing in Florida are inputted into the MLS. Because you will be represented by ADDvantage®, we will input ADDvantage Success™ listings into the MLS as Exclusive Right of Sale listings. It is a better way to get more showings, it is more professional and is exactly the same as a full-service listings.
  • Realtor.com Showcase…25 Pictures on Realtor.com. We will upgrade your Realtor.com listing to “showcase” with a longer property description (2400 characters) and 25 pictures. Realtor.com is the world’s most important real estate website. ($49 value, free with ADDvantage Success™)

Call us anytime 1-877-232-9695 or vist our website for more details on ADDvantage Success™ flat fee MLS.

Orlando Flat Fee MLS By Owners Can Make a Big Splash by Offering 4%

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

 

One significant benefit of listing flat fee in the MLS is that there are no listing commissions being paid by the seller. Therefore, offering more commission to the buyer’s agent does help get more Realtor showings. While this strategy is not for everyone, flat fee MLS seller’s in Orlando benefit in many ways by offering a higher than average incentive to the buyer’s agent.

ADDvantage, an Orlando flat fee MLS listing service, designed a special software program in 2005 that delivers an email to all Realtors in Orlando within a 35 mile radius of a Street Smart ADDvantage flat fee MLS listed property. Our Realtor-to-Realtor Street Smart email has become the best read email that Realtor receives of any kind in Florida.

To get in the Street Smart ADDvantage email, an Orlando seller must offer a 4% or greater commission to the buyer’s agent and be listed in the Street Smart program offered only through ADDvantage. Realtors from other companies call ADDvantage all the time requesting that we include their listings in the Street Smart ADDvantage email.

The Street Smart ADDvantage Realtor eblast program has been a huge success for the Orlando Realtors and the flat fee MLS sellers that have used this plan in Florida.

Over 1,000,000 emails have been delivered to Florida Realtors each year. Our flat fee MLS website, getmoreoffers.com, tracts the number of hits that each Street Smart ADDvantage listing receives so sellers can see their results.

Before we launched Street Smart ADDvantage in 2005, we researched the concept of paying higher buyer agent incentives and made the following conclusions.

Our Street Smart ADDvantage properties would get shown more by Realtors and sell better than other standard MLS listing. That would be only logical since a Realtor that sees a 4% or 5% commission offer will likely not pass up a chance to show that property and possibly sell that home.

Another interesting point about offering a higher buyer’s agent commission is how attached Realtors become to the prospect of earning that commission. When I negotiate a contract with another Realtor for one of our contract-to-close flat fee clients (ADDvantage Plus

I have had the opportunity on numerous occasions to attempt a commission reduction from the advertised Street Smart commission of 4%. This strategy can be effective when all other negotiation attempts have been exhausted. But, even when I try, 90% of the time the other Realtor says “no.”  They all reply, I like the 4% commission. Let me see what I can do with my buyers. This is exactly the intent and purpose of offering a higher than average buyer’s agent commission. Let the Realtor work as hard as possibly can for the “deal.”Another compelling reason to offer a higher than average buyer’s agent commission is that it garners more Realtor showings. Realtors will likely not pass up on an opportunity to show a 4% commissioned property when there are multiple properties in a neighborhood.

In summary, the theory that supports the concept of Street Smart ADDvantage is higher commissions are often cheaper than price reductions. For example, a 1% commission on a $500,000 home is $5,000. When negotiating with a buyer or Realtor, price increments do not move in $5,000 clips but more like $10,000-$15,000. The extra $5,000 in commission pales in comparison to dropping $15,000 off the ask price.

The cost of Street Smart ADDvantage is $599 which includes Realtor.com showcase and World Properties International.

Call us anytime, if you have questions about listing flat fee in Orlando MLS

1-877-232-9695 or visit our site getmoreoffers.com.