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06-14-2005, 02:06 PM
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[quote name='banzaitoyota' date='Jun 14 2005, 02:56 PM']FSBO: For Sale By Owner
They also blacklist houses listed by discount brokers
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WEWT! You do know of MLS right?
FSBO's are only advertised sparingly in the paper or on a sign on their front lawn. If someone come's to me looking for a $300k said home, of which a FSBO exists that they'd love, it's not going to come up in a search on MLS. This makes it especially tough for RELO's, which make up a majority of the market.
It's poor marketing, the only people that will know of your house for sale as a FSBO are those driving by or those that happen to read your 1" ad in a local paper, NOT the majority of buyers coming from out of state, who have NO time to cruise EVERY street and find your home while also still working where they live, and would much rather use a local realtor to check MLS and find what's available in the area.
Discounted brokers, (FOXTONS) are on MLS, and I've shown their properties. They are really tough to work with, which is a definite downside for us Realtors, but if I have someone who wants a home listed by them, I'm not about to stop for my sake...they want it...they get it.
Half of the BS you'll hear Realtors doing are simply because they're people that like to take advantage of other people and their money, which you'll find ANYWHERE.
They also blacklist houses listed by discount brokers
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WEWT! You do know of MLS right?
FSBO's are only advertised sparingly in the paper or on a sign on their front lawn. If someone come's to me looking for a $300k said home, of which a FSBO exists that they'd love, it's not going to come up in a search on MLS. This makes it especially tough for RELO's, which make up a majority of the market.
It's poor marketing, the only people that will know of your house for sale as a FSBO are those driving by or those that happen to read your 1" ad in a local paper, NOT the majority of buyers coming from out of state, who have NO time to cruise EVERY street and find your home while also still working where they live, and would much rather use a local realtor to check MLS and find what's available in the area.
Discounted brokers, (FOXTONS) are on MLS, and I've shown their properties. They are really tough to work with, which is a definite downside for us Realtors, but if I have someone who wants a home listed by them, I'm not about to stop for my sake...they want it...they get it.
Half of the BS you'll hear Realtors doing are simply because they're people that like to take advantage of other people and their money, which you'll find ANYWHERE.
06-14-2005, 02:10 PM
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[quote name='banzaitoyota' date='Jun 14 2005, 03:07 PM']Actually, the company I used to work for OWNED MLS.
Now name the company
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MLS is divided by region, not sure what you're saying.
Who'd you work for? Re-Max? You were a realtor once, lol that's scarey...
Now name the company
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MLS is divided by region, not sure what you're saying.
Who'd you work for? Re-Max? You were a realtor once, lol that's scarey...
06-14-2005, 02:11 PM
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[quote name='PhoenixDownVII' date='Jun 14 2005, 02:06 PM']Half of the BS you'll hear Realtors doing are simply because they're people that like to take advantage of other people and their money, which you'll find ANYWHERE.
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So Realtors are "people that like to take advantage of other people and their money"?
Sounds about right.
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So Realtors are "people that like to take advantage of other people and their money"?
Sounds about right.
06-14-2005, 02:11 PM
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"Lawyers don't advertise?"
They dont have a multi-million dollar campaign blitzing the airwaves telling us how they are needed like the REALTORS are doing right now.
How much of your commision is going into the organizations warchest to defend the anti-trust lawsuit coming down the road?
They dont have a multi-million dollar campaign blitzing the airwaves telling us how they are needed like the REALTORS are doing right now.
How much of your commision is going into the organizations warchest to defend the anti-trust lawsuit coming down the road?
06-14-2005, 02:13 PM
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Phoenix, do your homework: The MLS system is owned by ONE company. (Or at least it was). The geographic regions are for marketing utilization only. Now: ANSWER THE QUESTION! Quit with the realtor double talk
06-14-2005, 02:41 PM
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[quote name='banzaitoyota' date='Jun 14 2005, 02:55 PM']What other "bottom feeding occupation" needs a multi-million dollar ad campaign to tell you that their service is needed?
Now: ANSWER THE QUESTION!
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That one?
You're gay?
Can you refer me to that commercial too?
MLS, as bad as it may seem, while powerful it is also somewhat needed, should you require/enforce all homes listed (with a Realtor) to be on one dynamic, awesome search tool, you can ensure anyone that what you have before them is a list of ALL properties for sale...
If MLS did not exist, finding a house for sale would mean looking through hundreds of Harmon Homes ads, other estate ad's, travelling every city street, collecting every local newspaper...THEN dissecting which ones even apply to your price range or desires...then somehow contacting each individual seller and making sure you can meet up with them despite your work schedules...
Now: ANSWER THE QUESTION!
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That one?
You're gay?
Can you refer me to that commercial too?
MLS, as bad as it may seem, while powerful it is also somewhat needed, should you require/enforce all homes listed (with a Realtor) to be on one dynamic, awesome search tool, you can ensure anyone that what you have before them is a list of ALL properties for sale...
If MLS did not exist, finding a house for sale would mean looking through hundreds of Harmon Homes ads, other estate ad's, travelling every city street, collecting every local newspaper...THEN dissecting which ones even apply to your price range or desires...then somehow contacting each individual seller and making sure you can meet up with them despite your work schedules...
06-14-2005, 02:51 PM
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Who owned/developed MLS?
Here is the campaign link, since IT APPEARS you are clueless about what your national organization is doing:
http://realtor.org/rodesign.nsf/pages/FS_A...GN?OpenDocument
Here is the campaign link, since IT APPEARS you are clueless about what your national organization is doing:
http://realtor.org/rodesign.nsf/pages/FS_A...GN?OpenDocument