For Sellers

Consumer tools for sellers.

1.     Consumer Friendly Listing Contract. Use this as a guide to negotiating your own contract or directly with your Realtor. However, some states may have certain required disclosures and terms and in that case consider using this as an addendum to the contract that your Realtor provides to you.

2.     Open Houses Do NOT Sell Houses.  Read this article before you decide to allow your Realtor to hold open houses.  Open houses are for helping Realtors find buyer clients, they do not sell houses.

3.     Save $300. This simple negotiating tactic should save you $300 or more.

Articles

*      Open Houses Do NOT Sell Houses.  Read this article before you decide to allow your Realtor to hold open houses.  Open houses are for helping Realtors find buyer clients, they do not sell houses.

*      Avoid Dual Agency.  Consumers top two reasons for hiring Realtors is to help negotiate price and terms.  Realtors are prohibited from doing both in a dual agency.

*     "One Stop Shopping"  Do not ever use services that are affiliated with your Realtor, brokerage or builder firm.  The service industries designed to provide safeguards to ensure healthy residential real estate transactions are now actually owned and run by the firms which have huge stakes in the transaction such as builders, Realtors, and lenders.