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When you sell your home “By Owner” and compliment your marketing efforts with the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) you will have yourself a hybrid marketing plan. This is a great way to sell real estate. By combining marketing efforts you get the biggest bang for your buck. Our Flat Fee MLS service is the wave of the future. By using our service what you are essentially doing is mass marketing your home with two drastically different mediums. Some call this method MLS FSBO or FSBO MLS. It’s like having two companies marketing your property. The first company is you, the seller. The second company is our flat fee MLS service or FSBO MLS service. This is a killer combo when selling your home. When savvy sellers use our Mass flat fee MLS service they are looking to save money and be involved with the selling process. With this course of action, the property owner literally pursues both methods of marketing through the Massachusetts MLS and FSBO methods simultaneously. Marketing your property via our flat fee MLS can be accomplished in New England with a special listing agreement called a Facilitation Agreement. With this flat fee MLS type agreement, we will list your property for sale in the MLS for a flat fee and give you the best service money can buy. This agreement puts a limitation on the real estate agencies duties as well as responsibilities to the seller such that the listing agents’ obligations and services are more or less limited to listing the property in the MLS. With our MA flat fee MLS service, we take care of all your online marketing and maintain your MLS listing. Our Facilitation listing agreement allows you, the owner, the right to market the property yourself and avoid further commissions altogether if the owner finds a buyer from their own marketing efforts. This service cancels out the listing side of the commission. Rather than taking a commission we are paid a flat fee advance at the time the MLS listing is activated. Under our MA flat fee MLS listing agreement, there would be no additional commission ever paid to us for listing your home on the MLS. No matter what – we will never request a commission percentage when your home sells. It doesn’t matter if a buyer’s agent sells your home or if you sell it on your own. The only time you will ever pay a commission is when a Buyer Agent brings you a buyer and the deal closes. Under a Facilitation Agreement, all other real estate agents can then try to sell your home to their potential buyers and earn a commission representing the Buyer as a “Buyers Agent.” Sellers can offer these Buyer Agents whatever percent commission they desire, but owners should consider that offering less than the traditional 2.0% 2.5% could (but ethically shouldn’t) affect the Buyer Agents degree of interest in showing your property to their customers. An agent with ethical standards shouldn’t care about how much compensation being offered. They should only care about the best interest of their buyers.

→ Get the process started by heading over to our Agreement Wizard to create, sign and execute the listing agreement online.

Permalink: Combing the marketing power of MLS with a FSBO approach. Source

The initial listing term is 12 months unless otherwise noted. We know what you are thinking? Why 12 months when you believe it will sell in much less time? The short answer is that 12 months is more beneficial for you, the seller, and it makes the listing contract a lot easier for all parties involved (us and you). Renewals are a pain and “running time” goes a lot quicker than you would think. Since we allow sellers to cancel anytime without penalty, it’s a lot better to have the luxury of not looking at the calendar. You may believe that your property will go under agreement right away, but this is real estate and you never know what can happen after a written offer is made. In theory, you could have your property under agreement on the first-day it hits the market, but the overall process has a lot of steps and all these steps accumulate calendar days really fast. To put things into perspective. Think about this… You get an offer, the inspection (7-8 days post offer) goes without a hitch, but you later find out your buyer isn’t able to get financing (30-45 days later) and the deal you had initially thought was simple and straightforward goes south for whatever reason. When this happens you have to find another buyer and the days-weeks-months start to add up and pass quickly. If a deal crumbles it’s back the square one. Everything starts over. Ouch.

→ Get the process started by heading over to our Agreement Wizard to create, sign and execute the listing agreement online.

Permalink: How long will the flat fee MLS listing be active for?

While it’s true that this service is not for everyone, it does work for most who price their home within the market value range. Our service will not work if the property is overpriced. No service will. We only recommend this service to those who don’t mind responding to inquiries, scheduling showings and being present for showings.  If you’re the type of person who doesn’t mind interacting with people and gets excited about saving thousands of dollars then this service will work for you.

→ Get the process started by heading over to our Agreement Wizard to create, sign and execute the listing agreement online.

 

 

Permalink: How do I know if this service is for me?

New Hampshire:  $375. Listing until sold. Cancel anytime.

The initial term is 12-months. Read why we do 12-month listings. You may cancel anytime without penalty. If you need to renew all you need to do is let us know before the expiration date and we will renew the listing for free.

→ Get the process started by heading over to our Agreement Wizard to create, sign and execute the listing agreement online.

Permalink: How much does it cost to list on NEREN?

In order to get your property listed on MLS for extreme exposure, you need to use a state licensed real estate broker or agent who belongs to your regions Multiple Listing Service. Traditionally, you needed to hire an agent on a full-service basis. With our service, you work with an actual Realtor® for a one-time flat fee to get your property listed on MLS. Here at instaMLS / Hillman, we run a designated Realtor® office. We don’t just list your property and forget about you. We help you along the way but you will respond to inquiries (we will send you them) and do the showings. We even tell you how to go about showing your property. While it may seem easy to open your door, there’s more to it if you want the prospective buyers to feel comfortable.

 

→ Get the process started by heading over to our Agreement Wizard to create, sign and execute the listing agreement online.

Permalink: How to list on MLS without an Agent, Broker or a Realtor®?

If a buyer comes to your home, without the representation of a Buyer’s Agent, you will not be obligated to pay a commission on the sale. Just be sure to ask each buyer if they are working with an agent. We will provide you with sign-in sheets so you can keep track of who is represented and who is not.

→ Get the process started by heading over to our Agreement Wizard to create, sign and execute the listing agreement online.

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