Do flat-rate MLS listings get treated differently by agents?
I’m interested to know what other’s experience has been with flat-rate MLS listings in the triangle. I’m doing a FSBO (my 3rd) and it’s the first time I’ve used flat-rate MLS. My last home sold (7/2006) within days of listing it in a local FSBO magazine and we got a good amount of traffic from the listing. Based on that experience, when we decided to sell our current home this fall, I did another listing with the same folks, but the experience has been drastically different. I realize that I’m comparing different neighborhoods and different market conditions, but, I’ve gotten 0 traffic from that listing (6 week listing which is two magazine print cycles). After three weeks of no traffic, I did a flat-rate MLS listing in Triangle MLS with one of the national outfits. Shortly afterwards, I started to get showings from brokers. The number of showings is still increasing, which is good, but I’m curious about a couple of things. I understand there may be a justifiable bias for brokers to no
