Fixed Fee Realtors MLS Listing Services

  • List your home in the Realtors MLS for a Flat Listing Fee instead of a Listing Commission.
  • Offer Buyers Agents a contingent sales commission if they find the buyer.
  • Retain the Flexibility to sell your home yourself and avoid that Buyers Agent commission.
  • Click Here for details of this service or to order it separately.

How Do You Order The MLS Service

  • For full details about this Realtors MLS Listing Service.  Contact us and we get you in touch with
    a Realtor.  After acceptance by the Broker your home will be listed in the MLS by the Realtor and
    you will be notified by Email that your home has been submitted to the MLS and you will receive a
    copy of the listing via email.  You pay for the service when the Realtor has you sign all of the listing
    paperwork.

  •  We offer several methods of advertising your property.  We give you the option of where to advertise
    as we get deals from time to time from local advertisers which we pass along.

FSBONET™ is in the Advertising Business and is Not a licensed real estate agency, we do Not provide
these MLS Listing services ourselves, and we do recommend a Realtor who does provide these MLS
listing services.  A licensed real estate agent will be providing these MLS listing services and they will
contact you directly in response to your registration for this service.

The Different Marketing Methods

A Realtor marketing plan or a FSBO marketing plan are normally viewed as mutually exclusive alternatives. 
With the Realtors traditional "Exclusive Right To Sell" type listing agreement, they are normally mutually
exclusive since the home owner ordinarily gives up their right to market the property when they do that
listing agreement with the realtor. 

However, before you settle on the marketing plan of your choice, you should evaluate and consider a third recently available alternative.  This alternative is what we call a The  FSBO - Realtor marketing plan.  The property owner literally pursues both methods of marketing through the Realtors MLS and FSBO simultaneously.  The concept is to have a Realtor list your property for sale in the Realtors MLS for a fixed fee and also retain in the listing agreement the right to be able to sell your home to a buyer who is not represented by a realtor and avoid buyers or sales agent commissions.  This could be accomplished in a number of different ways, you might specifically reserve that right in a traditional exclusive right to sell listing agreement, you could also use a limited agency agreement sometimes referred to as an "Exclusive Agency" listing agreement with a limitation on the "Scope" of the agency such that only "Buyers Agent" realtors will be able to earn any commission and the Listing Realtors obligations and services
are basically limited to Listing the property in the MLS and assisting you with evaluation of your asking price.   

This Listing service can be provided for a fixed dollar fee, instead of a listing commission to the Listing Agent,
paid in advance at the time the listing is made.  All these terms are Negotiable, provided you can find a Realtor
"willing" to negotiate.  Under this "fixed fee type" of  "Exclusive Agency" listing contract there would be no
additional "commission" ever paid to the Listing Realtor, neither in the event of a sale by another "Buyers
Agent Realtor" nor a FSBO sale by the property owner. 

Under these circumstances, all other Realtors can then try to sell your property to their potential buyers and earn their normal 3% commission as a "Buyers Agent".  Sellers can offer these Buyer Agent Realtors whatever percent commission they desire, but owners should consider that offering less than the traditional 3% could affect these Buyers Agent Realtors "degree" of interest in showing your property to their customers.  So in this EXAMPLE, instead of 6% commission, you would pay the fixed dollar listing fee and the 3% Buyers Agent commission if and only if you sell to a buyer who was brought to your property by a Buyers Agent Realtor.   Anyone using this method should seriously consider requiring each "Buyers Agent" Realtor to accompany each of their potential buyers who come to view the property and keep a WRITTEN LOG of the names of each Realtor and their prospective buyer and
the date they viewed the property along with the Realtors initials on that log.  This could be very useful in the
event of any dispute with or between Realtors about which, if any, brought the ultimate buyer to see your
property and is entitled to earn the 3% commission.  If you sell your property yourself, you do not have to pay
the 3% Buyers Agent commission.  

 In effect you are paying a "Flat Listing Fee" instead of the normal Listing Realtors 3% commission, offering Buyers Agents whatever Commission you desire, and you have the option of selling your property FSBO without paying that Buyers Agent commission.  The trade off is that since you only pay a modest fixed listing fee, the listing realtor will likely limit the "scope" of the agency such that in effect you will get no marketing assistance or advice from the listing Realtor except a Comparative Market Analysis report.  The listing Realtor is merely granted authorization to list your property with the MLS Listing service so it will be available for all other Realtors who are working with potential buyers to try to sell and earn  the "Buyers Agent" commission you offer them.  The upside is you can continue to market your property at the same time and if you find a buyer before the Buyers Agent Realtors do, you pay no commission to them. 

By doing this listing agreement with a realtor, the MLS will permit the Realtor to give you a CMA Report.   This Comparable Market Analysis, or property valuation report, reviews the actual prior sale prices of recent
"comparable" MLS sales in your area along with the details of those comparable MLS sales so YOU can
determine Yourself just how "comparable" these sales really are.   These CMA reports are intended to
"Assist" in determining an asking price.  They do not contain the prior sales price information for all property
transactions and can Never just be taken at face value, they are however a valuable source of some of the
information you need to competently decide how to price your property. 

This MLS prior sales price information is NOT directly Available otherwise, except by hiring some licensed Appraisers.   You will not find specific prior sale price information for prior MLS sales and is not available to the public because the MLS will not permit this information to be distributed directly to consumers, except through Realtors or Appraisers who are also members of the MLS Co-Op who are assisting you with the valuation of your property.  Considering that this alternative allows for both the increased exposure to potential buyers who may be working only with a realtor (at a cost to the seller of 3% commission rather than 6%) and the continuing opportunity for the owner to sell the property FSBO and still avoid Realtor commissions entirely if the owner finds a buyer first, this is indeed an alternative which property owners should research, become knowledgeable about and consider.

Before you settle on Your Marketing Plan.  In the above described scenario, owners should understand that there is only "Limited" Agency with the Listing Realtor and NO Agency with the "Buyers Agent" Realtors.  This means
that the "Buyers Agent" Realtors do NOT Work For The Seller as many people commonly think that all  Realtors do.  These "Buyer Agent" Realtors do not have the same customary responsibilities towards the property owner that a "Listing-Agent" or Selling Realtor would normally have.  Dealing with these "Buyer Agent" Realtors is more like dealing with a potential buyer who might respond to your FSBO marketing efforts.  

Any owner interested in this approach should fully research and understand these differences in the Realtors
duties and responsibilities and consider getting an attorney or paying the "Listing Realtor" a Fee to review
your sales contracts with any of these Buyer Agents before you sign them (having an attorney or the "Listing
Agent", lined up to review your sales contract, or better yet to prepare one for you in advance, is a good idea
anyway for all non-real estate professionals). 

All these specific Rights, Duties, and Obligations will of course be explained by the "Listing Realtor".   One problem with this marketing method is finding a Realtor that will do it.  A lot of realtors "Talk" about discount services these days primarily as a way to get customers into their offices to sell them their Full Priced Services, many others idea of "Discount Commissions" is to reduce their normal 6% to 4.5% or 5%, while Most Realtors will not consider this type of an arrangement at all, since it runs contrary to their traditional practices. 

We offer The FSBO - Realtor Listing Package Deal in coordination with a FSBO Friendly Local Realtor in order to combine the benefits of this new marketing method with the normal FSBO marketing strategy.  The result is a Powerful Marketing Plan which efficiently offers sellers a Lot of Flexibility.

Our users should understand that we do not recommend any particular Marketing Plan, either The Realtor
plan, The FSBO Plan, or The  FSBO - Realtor plan.   Each individual seller will have different needs,
limitations, or preferences.  Our purpose is simply to assist users in identifying the various alternatives,
evaluating those alternatives for yourself,  and obtaining additional information about those alternatives
for your own individual consideration to determine which Plan best suites your preferences and objectives. 

If Your Marketing Plan then requires any Advertising, Our FSBO Advertising is here to provide you an efficient and valuable addition to your Advertising program which is designed to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of WHICHEVER Marketing Plan You Choose.  In reality, all property is For Sale By Owner.  Some owners choose the Realtor Marketing plan, some choose the FSBO Marketing plan, and lately most are choosing the The Marketing plan.