Donald Plunkett is the President of Congress Realty, a company which allows homeowners including sellers to list their property on the (MLS) for a $299 flat fee. More info:
Fresno Flat Fee MLS Fresno area homeowners do have several options when it comes to selling their homes: they can list their home with a local real estate agent, they can attempt to sell the home by owner, or they can sell through a combination of the two: a flat fee MLS listing. To do this, the seller would need t... Similar Editorial : by Adam Smith. | Source : American Housing
New Mexico Flat Fee MLS New Mexico homeowners do not have to pay steep commissions of around six percent to sell a home. They have many options. Sellers are free to negotiate a lower rate. Some agents do reduce their fees or negotiate, subject to the approval of their broker. Other agents simply do not reduce their fe... Similar Editorial : by Uladzislau Suski. | Source : American Housing
Nevada MLS In general, real estate market participants such as buyers, sellers, and agents have more information at their fingertips than ever before. That being said, they need to understand where to look for data and what to do with it. People looking to buy or sell a property in Nevada often inquire abo... Similar Editorial : by Kathy Swift. | Source : American Housing
Yuma Flat Fee MLS Listing Largely driven by military relocations, Californians either relocating to a lower cost market or moving back home and retirees moving to the area from colder climates, Yuma real estate transaction volume is high relative to its estimated area population of about 190,000 people and perhaps 80,000... Similar Editorial : by Donald Plunkett. | Source : Real Estate Valuation
Flat Fee Listing Agreements All real estate listing agreements must be in writing. This is true for traditional brokers as well as flat fee listing companies. No property may be listed on the MLS without a valid listing agreement; the listing agreement is essentially an authorization in writing from the seller which is t... Similar Editorial : by Johnette Duff. | Source : Real Estate Developers
How An Increase In Mortgage Limits Can Impact Real Estate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two housing finance companies that have the implicit backing of the United States government, presently limit the mortgages they buy in the lower 48 states to a maximum size of $417,000. Alaska and Hawaii loans can be as high as $625,500. They also have a number of ot... Similar Editorial : by Maximus Mejo. | Source : Home Loan Rates
Real Estate Lockboxes Many property owners are only vaguely familiar with a real estate lockbox. They may have remembered a buyer's agent utilizing something to gain access to properties or they may equate lockbox with some sort of banking practice or the 2000 presidential campaign and the related satire stemming fr... Similar Editorial : by Dan Auito. | Source : Real Estate Community
Branding For Real Estate Agents New real estate agents join a crowded field with many different people basically peddling the same service. One of the reasons is that the barriers to entry in the real estate field are relatively low. It is not like becoming a lawyer or doctor where years of schooling, training and internships ... Similar Editorial : by Jay Carter. | Source : Real Estate Community
Alaska MLS Nothing helps Alaska property owners buy or sell a home quite like the Multiple Listing Service (MLS). For buyers, it provides a list of properties for sale that their agent can access or that they can view at one of hundreds of different websites; for sellers, it provides a means of gaining exp... Similar Editorial : by Steve W Sharpe. | Source : Canada Real Estate
Austin Remodeling One of the many wonderful aspects of the Austin, Texas real estate market is the variance you will find amongst properties found within the city of Austin. While many large national tract home builders have entered Central Texas, the actual city of Austin still maintains its wide array of choic... Similar Editorial : by David Bouthot . | Source : Canada Real Estate
Discount Realty Competition is and always has been the American way. In virtually any product category, there are multiple competitors. It is up to the buyer to determine the right product or service for them, weighing the costs and benefits, comparing pricing, examining service levels, etc. For instance, walk ... Similar Editorial : by Cerro Fresco. | Source : Real Estate News
List By Owner On The MLS For years, extremely knowledgeable home sellers, people like commercial real estate agents, real estate attorneys, and former residential agents would contact their friends in the residential real estate business, asking them to cut a deal. "Just put me in the Multiple Listing Service (back the... Similar Editorial : by Wayne and Tamara. | Source : Real Estate Brokers
Arizona MLS Systems When buying or selling properties in Arizona, one could get virtually nowhere without the Multiple Listing Service (MLS). The MLS is a database of homes for sale and an offer amongst brokers to compensate one another if they represent a buyer that purchases their listed property. It is the singl... Similar Editorial : by Albert Bor. | Source : Canada Real Estate
Understanding What Happened With Subprime Mortgages After the steep rise in subprime lending in the 2001-2006 period, followed by the credit crunch of 2007, some might ask, "If their borrowers can't pay, why did the lenders make these loans in the first place? Did they not want to be paid back?" To get to the bottom of this question, people ne... Similar Editorial : by Diane Hughes. | Source : Home Loan Rates
Phoenix Duplex Investment Single family homes historically have the lowest capitalization rates ("cap rates") of any property class. This is calculated by dividing the net operating income (assuming no mortgage) by the purchase price of the property. For instance, a $100,000 property that generated $9000 per year in net operating income would be classified as a "9 cap." For single family homes, cap rates are in many cases...... Similar Editorial : by Hal McIver. | Source : Asset Allocation Fund
Flat Fee Mls Listing This combination of high technology with high levels of human interaction will make flat fee listings even more important in coming years as they will drive exposure of ones property to the entire m...... Similar Editorial : By Owner Mls Listing by Donald Plunkett. | Source : Best Real Estate Investing
