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Historically, placing your home on the market by listing with a traditional real estate broker has meant paying fees based on a percentage of your home's selling price. These commissions range from 5% to 7% depending on the area in which you live. Using 6% as an example, selling your home in Atlanta will cost you $15,000 in commissions alone. Is that fair? Does your Real Estate Agent really deserve $15,000?
In some cases, it is absolutely fair for the Agent to earn a substantial commission for the hard work, marketing efforts, advertising costs, and other overhead items involved in selling your home. In most cases, though, if you have a home in a reasonably desirable area and you have maintained it properly, you can save thousands of dollars by using ESJ List Link's innovative approach to selling your home. If you will take a few minutes and educate yourself on how the real estate market works, it will be clear how you can take advantage of our fresh approach to marketing and keep the commissions in Your pocket.
How does Traditional Real Estate Work?
In a traditional real estate representation, YOU, the seller, will agree to list your home with a real estate brokerage firm. By doing so, you will lock yourself into an agreed upon commission structure so that when the home sells, the agent's commission will be deducted from the sale price at closing. The Agent's commission even takes priority over your own profit! He or she will get paid even if you have to bring money to your closing to make up any deficit!
Also, under the traditional real estate agreement, if you find a purchaser for your home, the realtor will still receive their full commission . This gives you very little incentive to be an active partner in the selling process. As you will see later, ESJ List Link not only frees you to sell your home yourself with no commission fees, it also encourages you to be a key part of the selling process.
You may ask yourself, "How can real estate agents demand fees that are so high?" The answer is that the listing services that agents use to market your property are not available to you. The multiple listing service (MLS) is the most powerful real estate selling tool in the industry! Trying to sell your home without being listed on the MLS system is like trying to sell your car with only a index card in the window. You may just get lucky and sell it. If you do, great! The fact is, though, the only people that will know you are trying to sell your car are those who just happen to sit next to you in traffic.
MLS is important!
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First Multiple Listing Service (FMLS) and Georgia Multiple Listing Service (GMLS) listing These listing services are the most comprehensive tools available to the real estate professional today. You cannot get your message out to the tens of thousands of licensed agents in Georgia without being included in this system. Specifically, The Georgia MLS system has historically focused on the South Atlanta areas and First MLS has focused on the Northern areas. Although there is not a clear separation anymore, you really should be represented on both systems for full exposure to the market.
Realtor.com This Realtor driven website is the largest national clearinghouse for residential property in the nation. For exposure to Buyers who may be moving in from other areas of the country, you need to be included on this site. ESJ List Link will make sure you are well represented here.
Competitive Market analysis One of the first questions you will have to answer when you decide to sell your home is how much is your home worth. One of the most reliable methods of determining the value of a home is through the Competitive Market Analysis. This method searches the MLS database for homes that are most similar to yours and are located in the same market area and have sold in the recent past. By comparing these home's selling prices and the comparative features of each home, you will be able to arrive the best selling price for your home. This method helps you get the most for your home and never leave money on the table.
Attractive Yard Sign Although the Home Improvement Store's red and white "For Sale" sign with magic marker printing does get the message across, a tastefully designed, attractive yard sign from ESJ ListLink will not only communicate your intentions to sell, it also alerts buyers to the fact that the price of this home will not be inflated by real estate commissions.
Home Warranty ESJ List Link, in partnership with American Home Shield, will provide a home warranty for the time that your home is listed with us. Just another way to add a little peace of mind to the home selling process. (conditions apply)
Home Staging Services ESJ List Link has partnered with Kris O'Neill of A Cents of Design Inc. to offer some super information on Home staging. Home staging is the hottest thing to hit real estate in years and Kris is full of great ideas to help make your home more desirable. Kris offers a 25% discount on an initial two hour consultation and she will also host regular home staging parties so you can learn a little about the art of staging and get your burning questions answered.
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