Anyone have opinions or experience using a realtor that offers flat rate listings? More specifically, my wife and I have been looking at using Creekview Realty to sell our house. It is an acreage community outside Magnolia and that doesn't really act like a normal market in the city. Houses are still moving extremely fast (only 1 is on the market right now, and it's a spec home slated to complete in June), so with the right price I think ours won't last long. I am just having a hard time imagining where a sellers agent would add enough value to cover the 3% commission. We would of course still pay out for the buyers agent. Thoughts?

I'm a broker/Realtor and will match pricing for either of their packages. Shoot me an email at username at gmail.com.

In a hot market, straight FSBO or flat fee is the only way to go. I sold a house in the fall and paid $300 for the flat fee listing and 2% to the buyer's agent. Sold in 2 weeks.

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I'm trying ListingSpark.com... so far so good. TexAgs(Username)@ gmail.com if you have questions.

I'd go with rjamizon since they're a TexAg-er. I do full service, flat fee listings in Bryan-College Station. Other Houston area MLS options are The Listing Firm and Texas Discount Realty (based out of Austin but have agents in Houston).

I love that story every time you tell it. Don't you just want to "check in" with that dude just to see how everything went....?

Just curious, what did you end up doing?
If you used Creekview, how did it go?

There is a home for sale on our street and we are thinking me about making an offer, but if it gets accepted, a buying agents wouldn't have much work except the paperwork.

We actually ended up selling to our neighbors friend. They had been looking in our neighborhood for some time and just totally fell in love with our house. We used the standard TREC contract and a couple of the addendums they have. Dropped it all off at a local title company and they handled the rest. We close on April 22nd, so far a very positive experience.

But did you list and with who/how?

Never listed it on MLS or worked with any agent, flat rate or otherwise. We had the offer before we even got that far.

Awesome - how did you feel about your sale price? Seems like you'd get a little higher than usual if someone was wanting it that bad.

We sold it for our asking price (which was high for our area) minus 3% since neither party had an agent. We built the house just three years ago and came out 30K ahead. Nothing to complain about at all.

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We sold it for our asking price (which was high for our area) minus 3% since neither party had an agent. We built the house just three years ago and came out 30K ahead. Nothing to complain about at all.

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Why minus 3%? The buyer doesn't pay that.

I gave up 3% since I was saving 6%. A minor concession in my opinion but ending with the same or more money (depending how you look at it) in my pocket.

Just wanted to bump this thread once again since the busy season for selling homes is about the arrive.

Anyone else have any recent feedback on flat rate realtors? Homes on our street are selling within 5 days to 2 weeks. Im tempted to use Creekview or one similar.

Anyone got any recent feedback?

12 Realty still offering flat fee, full brokerage representation in BCS market. Still a no brainer to use a flat fee brokerage in my opinion. With a little exposure and a realistic asking price, property is selling quickly. There are some flat fee companies that do 'limited' service listings but most all also have an 'add on' package where they'll do full representation. So that's just something to consider when looking at the different options. If you're in BCS, be happy to talk.

"These would be a better option compared to approaching realtors locally as they would usually only get your listing on the local MLS."

This is false. Our listings feed to 70+ websites including the 'big ones' like Zillow, Trulia and Realtor.com. So much of your post is wrong and bad advice.

C- thread bump. Would not read again

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