What are the advantages of listing on the MLS?
When you enter your home in the MLS and offer a Realtor a 2.8% co-op fee to sell your home, you are putting thousands of local Realtors to work for you to find an eager, qualified buyer for your property. You will gain the greatest exposure and let the majority of qualified buyers know that your home is available. By using the limited service MLS, the seller has agreed in writing to pay a commission of 2.8% of the purchase price, to a Realtor upon a successful closing. This will cut out those agents who waste your time by telling you they have a “so-called-buyer” for your home, when really they are just trying to list your home. When a realtor calls, they really will have a “legitimate, qualified buyer”. It will stop the relentless badgering from annoying Realtors® and Investors. Survey results from NAR (National Association of Realtors)have shown that 50% of sellers first try to sell their home without using a Realtor but that only 16% of sellers actually sell their home without expos
