Orlando Saves Over 50% in Real Estate Commissions

Orlando by-owners are using flat fee listings to gain a competitive advantage.

ADDvantage® now makes it simple to understand how flat fee listing works by watching our flat fee MLS videos.

In today’s price driven real estate market, every penny counts these days and ADDvantage® is leading the way on this cost saving campaign by offering the best by-owner flat fee MLS listing service.

ADDvantage® holds direct MLS membership with 28 Florida Realtor Associations from Ft. Myers, Ft. Lauderdale,  Orlando, Florida Keys, Marco Island,  Ocala, Jacksonville, Tallahassee, The Pan Handle, Bradenton, Tampa, St. Pete, Clearwater, Gainesville, Naples, Boca and just about every small Florida city in between.

Listing Flat fee in the MLS has grown in popularity because sellers save 50% in commissions without sacrificing marketing or service. We offer the best live phone support and superior Internet marketing so selling your Florida home is easy and cost effective. ADDvantage® has been working overtime for years earning the respect of fellow Realtors and by-owners throughout Florida.

In today’s price driven buyer’s market, sellers must sell and compete along side short sales and bank owned properties. Lower sales commissions are an excellent starting point to get noticed and sold faster. ADDvantage® has done a great job in Florida for by-owners…Just take a look at our flat fee MLS sales statistics!

When listing flat fee MLS, in Orlando, by-owners only pay a commission to buyer’s agents. If you sell without a Realtor, no commission is due. Our basic 9 month flat fee listing is just $349 which includes a listing in Mid-Florida Regional.

With flat fee MLS, there is no binding listing agreement (view flat fee MLS listing agreement) and you can cancel anytime, with a moments notice and without a fee or penalty.

Our Internet marketing is superior and we will list your home, condo, commercial property or vacant land on hundreds of sites such as MSN, homes.com, Craigslist, AOL, Realtor.com, getmoreoffers, Bargain Network, Yahoo and many more.

Our service commitment to our Orlando by owners makes ADDvantage® your best partner in Florida to list flat fee in the MLS. We offer the most reliable live phone support from 8:00am and to 8:00pm every day o the week including Saturday and Sunday.

We are the only Florida discount real estate broker or full-service real estate company to do this. We truly understand real estate is a sales business and we understand each call is important and maybe your sale. We have offered this live phone support for six years now and continue to do so. We enjoy the best reputation in Florida among fellow Realtors because of it. When Realtors see our name in the MLS, they know what to expect when they call. Real-time live support 7 days a week!

We also give every seller more control over your MLS listing because each seller has their own seller control panel to change price, commission, view who has viewed your listing and all seamless, 100% on-line and electronic. No faxes, or emails, just clicks.

Even Realtors trust ADDvantage® to list their own listings when they need marketing outside their local MLS coverage. Homeowners, builders and investors all trust ADDvantage®.

Contact ADDvantage 727-942-2929

Orlando home owners who are considering using flat fee MLS to sell their property often face the dilemma of trust. Everyone wants to save 50% in real estate commissions, or possibly pay zero. That’s why flat fee MLS listings in Orlando are popular. But, can you trust that you are going to receive everything as promised?

Most Orlando home owners do not fully trust Realtors®. For whatever their reasons, this remains a fact. I am Keith Gordon, broker for flat fee MLS Orlando listing service ADDvantage®.

I belong to 26 Florida MLS Realtor Associations, including the Mid Florida Regional MLS. I have been a licensed Florida real estate broker since 1984. My honest real estate brokerage dealings for the past 25 years has earned me a reputation as being forthright, respected and as a result, zero complaints with the Division of Real Estate in my 25 years of brokerage activity.

Trust will always be an issue when money is involved, especially big real estate commissions. Because 6% represents huge money, Orlando by owners have turned to an alternative way to list and sell real estate in Florida…Flat Fee MLS.

I have found that many of our clients even doubt our honesty and sincerity until they have listed and dealt personally with our staff. Once they see our professionalism and have experienced our easy to use MLS listing software, the trust barrier comes down. We are timely with our MLS edits once you are a client and our overall customer satisfaction is unapproachable.

I believe there are three areas that Orlando, Florida owners have trust issues with:

1) Buyer leads are one area that flat fee MLS home sellers do not fully understand. At ADDvantage®, our policy with regard to buyer leads has been effective and honest since we started ADDvantage® back in 2005. Once a buyer lead is received by us from any source such as Realtor.com or Homes.com, we promptly forward it to our seller in real time 7 days a week from 8:00am-8:00pm. This level of service is unheard of in the real estate. Between these hours, all emails and calls are answered “live” by our staff and forwarded to our Orlando flat fee MLS sellers…Either by phone and/or email. Our relentless attention to all details has earned ADDvantage ® the best reputation in all Florida for delivering the most reliable and trusted flat fee MLS service. As well, all leads and Realtor® calls for showings are stored in the sellers account in their easy reference and retrieval.

2) The next point of trust or dis-trust is how Realtor.com and IDX works. Most Orlando by owners do not fully understand the nuances of Realtor.com and why should they. Fact is, no seller contact information is allowed, by rule of Realtor.com, to be published in Realtor.com. ONLY the listing broker’s phone number and name may appear. All Realtor® websites such as Coldwell Banker and remax.com receive their MLS listing data directly from Realtor.com through a feed called IDX. This means all websites that display MLS listings contain the listing brokers contact information, not the sellers. So, sellers must implicitly trust the flat fee MLS broker to professionally handle buyer leads. The sellers contact information is displayed on our site http://www.getmoreoffers.com and sites such as Homes.com.

3) Offers from Realtors® are another big trust issue. Sellers do want the marketing and cost saving offered by flat fee MLS listing services but, “don’t touch my offers.” Sellers would prefer their offers going directly to them and not through the flat fee broker. At ADDvantage®, we facilitate our seller’s deals and would never impede the sale. We forward all offers directly to our sellers (8:00am-8:00pm 7 days) and call notifying of the offer being forwarded by email. We have never mishandled an offer in 5 years. Most offers do come through ADDvantage® as Realtors® prefer the “listing broker” to initially receive the offer and then forward the offer to the “self-represented” seller. From there, the buyer’s agent and seller negotiate the offer. As a note, it is clearly stated in the MLS to call seller directly for all showings and includes the seller’s phone number. But, it has been Realtor® protocol for 80 years to deal only with the listing broker. This also assists ADDvantage® with timely updating the MLS listing status from “active” to “contract pending” an MLS board requirement.

Trust will remain an issue when big money is involved. Orlando by owners that do choose ADDvantage will soon believe it is possible to trust a flat rate MLS service with your home sale and still 50% off the cost of a traditional listing….Or, possibly pay no commission if you sell without a Realtor®. At ADDvantage®, we have earned our reputation as Orlando’s most trusted and hardest working flat fee MLS broker. We consistently deliver more offers, more buyer leads and Realtor® feedback on all showings. We do this 7 days a week from 8:00am-8:00pm for 5 years in a row.

Cal us anytime 1-877-232-9695 

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.

5 reasons why Orlando FSBO sellers believe ADDvantage is worth the extra money:

1) We are the only Orlando flat fee MLS service that guarantees (it is actually in our listing agreement) 8:00am-8:00pm 7 days a week live buyer lead and Realtor assistance. Our live phone support is one reason why we are a more expensive flat fee MLS service. The common belief is that all calls go directly to the seller so why would anyone pay for extra live phone support of 8:00am-8:00pm? The fact is ADDvantage has answered over 2,900 calls live over the past 12 months from Realtors and buyers needing assistance. Flat fee MLS websites all say they same thing: that “Buyers and Realtors call the seller directly.” This is absolutely FALSE; we put the same remarks in the MLS as all flat fee services do which states “call the seller directly for all showings and offers.” The reason we have received over 2,900 calls is because Realtors are a busy bunch of people and often fail to slow down and read the Realtor remarks. Some read them and can’t find the seller, and some couldn’t care less what the remarks say and call the listing broker as protocol. Also, NO seller contact information is allowed in Realtor.com. These are the reasons why Orlando flat fee MLS sellers need reliable phone support. Is losing one buyer lead or missing one Realtor showing worth tying to save $150 and list with an unreliable cheaper flat fee service?

2) We are the only flat fee MLS service in Orlando, Miami, Tampa or Jacksonville that spends so much time making sure our flat fee sellers are ready for an offer. Just yesterday at 6:45pm, a Saturday evening, I received a call from an Orlando Realtor that was making an offer on a property she had shown earlier in the day. She reached me at 6:45 pm Saturday and received the advice she needed which was where to send the offer. I asked her if she needed the seller’s disclosure statement she said yes. I simply went to our “user docs” area of our seller’s control panel and emailed it to her. She got what she needed, the flat fee seller received excellent service as their offer wasn’t delayed and this was all made possible because our MLS Administrators did their job to ensure all clients have completed their seller’s disclosure. I believe that we are the only flat fee service in Florida that spends the needed resources to follow up with clients and mail “welcome letters” to inform sellers of what their responsibilities are. The list goes on about other success stories that flat fee sellers have experienced at ADDvantage. It all starts with excellent phone ethic and we take the time to get the details right. We help Realtors and buyers today, not tomorrow or Monday.

3) Another point about paying more for an ADDvantage flat fee listing is buyer leads. In our listing agreement we state that all buyer leads belong to the seller, not us. This is not the case with many flat fee MLS listing services in Florida who take the leads for their own purposes.

4) Another point is the listing agreement. Our flat fee listing agreement states that we answer the phone 8:00am-8:00pm 7 days and that a seller can “unconditionally” withdraw a MLS listing at anytime with no fee or penalty. By the way, “suspend” is not the same as unconditionally withdraw. Many other terms can be used that don’t mean you have the right to permanently cancel your listing with no penalties. Listing flat fee isn’t always cut and dry unless you’re dealing with ADDvantage.

5) Lastly, our flat fee MLS listing plans have more proactive features such as Street Smart ADDvantage Realtor eblast and ADDvantage Plus contract-to-close.

Cheap is cheap and with ADDvantage you simply get more.

Call us anytime, we are here 1-877-232-9695 or visit our flat fee MLS listing website getmoreoffers.com