When working with Yigdigs to sell your house For Sale by Owner, there is a choice you have to make. Several options are available for Multiple Listing Service (MLS) packages. Frugal do-it-yourselfers have the option of taking the free route and registering for a basic package, which gets you a page that details a curb-side picture and a short listing description of the property–a nice package to have if you’re confident in your abilities as a seller and don’t need the attributes that other packages offer. Available options increase in both price and benefit, and in order to get the kind of listing to promote your home well and give you access to professional real estate expertise, the prudent seller may want to invest a bit.
With more features, such as access to Yigdigs.com’s online community of real estate professionals or Agent Access, the price of packages steadily increases, but one can rest assured, you are getting your value. A particular feature that I wanted to point out today, one which some of you may not be completely aware of, is the Agent Assistance tool. It’s only available with the premium packages and I want to explain how a feature such as this might benefit the For Sale By Owner.
Once you’ve gotten through the initial steps of selling your home (i.e. staging, and marketing) and you’ve got a few interested buyers, as the seller you will have to draft up a sales contract (I discussed this document at length in an earlier blog.) This document will detail the entire buyer/seller agreement—from asking prices to inspections to addendums and particular amendments on the legally binding agreement. This is a very, very important legal document, and one that first time and repeat FSBOs may not be completely familiar and comfortable with. In fact, in our recent case study, that’s exactly what our recent home sellers found the most challenging.
This is where the Agent Assistance feature comes into play. At these “real estate crossroads”, the assistance of a professional can be very beneficial. Agent Assistance will put you into contact with an experienced and reliable real estate professional that can advise and guide you through the complex matters of drafting a mutually beneficial Sales Contract. You will attain the expertise and value you require of a real estate professional while paying a single flat fee as opposed to hefty, blanket commission rates for unknown or questionable value.
This feature can also come in handy when moving the sale to the closing table. At this point the seller will be working in close contact with the buyer as they administer professional inspections and appraisals. Say, for instance, that the home is appraised at a lower price than the asking and the buyer wants to renegotiate. This will require changes to be drafted in the Sales Contract. The Agent Assistance feature can help you work through sticky legal matters efficiently with full legal knowledge at hand so you can get that Sales Contract to the title agent.
Other features are offered as well. Home reviews and rating, expert forums, live customer support, and listings with sister websites such as Realtor.com are all beneficial. But with every additional feature, the price increases as well. You get what you pay for and you have the power to choose. If the free listing doesn’t yield any hungry buyers, go ahead and bump your package up to the next option and see if a sponsored listing on Yahoo Real Estate, Craigslist, Tulia, or Zillow doesn’t help.
This MLS package is the service we offer. Yigdigs.com endorses the idea of selling your home FOR SALE BY OWNER, and this is precisely how it is done. You get all of the benefits of working with industry professionals and access to a wide, national network of home-buyers, sellers, agents, and attorneys all for a single fee for the package in place of a commission for a sellers agent, saving you thousands.
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This is a great service! Thank you for making it available!