Miami By Owners Save on Average 65% in Real Estate Commissions when using our Flat fee MLS Listing Service

(part 2)

Search the term “flat fee MLS Miami” and about 30 different flat fee MLS listing services come up. Some are genuine flat fee MLS services and others are flat fee traps. In particular, a $69 flat fee MLS listing is not really what it portends to be as there are conditions that can prevent you from canceling the MLS listing at will. Other services are “national” flat fee MLS websites and are not licensed in Florida. As well, there are websites that advertise flat fee MLS but do not give you buyer leads from Realtor.com and leads they receive from other FSBO websites such as homes.com…these flat fee MLS offers are not genuine because they take these leads for their agents. This is not flat fee MLS. At ADDvantage, 27% of our “sold” homes are sold “by owner” thus saving you all the costs of paying a commission. Of course, there are legitimate flat fee MLS listing services besides ADDvantage. But, none of these services compare to the high level service offered by an ADDvantage flat fee MLS listing.

Why would a Miami homeowner that wants to list flat fee in SE Florida Regional MLS pay an additional $150 to ADDvantage?

The answer is simply reliability. ADDvantage guarantees to you that between the hours of 8:00am-8:00pm, Monday through Sunday, any calls from Realtors or buyers about your property will be answered live and handled professionally.

Offering this level of service costs more and yields huge divides to you. My recent example of why this is so important came from a Realtor call that I received Friday evening at 6:45 pm. The Miami Realtor showed an ADDvantage flat fee listing earlier in the day and her buyer wanted to make an offer. The Realtors first question asked of me was “are you one of those flat fee companies”? I responded “yes, the seller in self-represented.” She then asked “where would I send an offer?” My reply was “you can send the offer to ADDvantage and we’ll forward it to the seller or you can send it directly to the seller, whichever you would prefer.” She hesitated for a moment and then I asked her “do you need a seller’s disclosure statement”? She said, “yes” and I replied, “I will see if we have one stored in the clients “user docs”…we sure do.” She asked for me to email it to her so she could make the offer.” And my reply was “it’s on the way!”

This simple act of answering the phone at 6:45 pm, having the seller’s disclosure already to send to a Realtor in need and being able to facilitate the offer is why ADDvantage is worth $349 for our basic 9 month flat fee MLS listing program. Our 8:00am-8:00pm 7 day a week live support benefits you in many more ways.

1) 2,950 Realtors or buyers have called ADDvantage over the past 12 months asking for assistance on making appointments, presenting offers or gathering additional information on our Florida flat fee MLS listings.

2) 1,050 of these Realtor or buyer calls came to ADDvantage after-hours.

3) Every call that comes to ADDvantage is immediately transcribed into an email and stored in your ADDvantage MLS account for later retrieval.

4) Every unrepresented buyer lead belongs to you, not ADDvantage.

5) We are the only flat fee MLS listing service in Miami or anywhere Florida that spends the necessary resources on customer related services such as: sending a “welcome letter” informing you of important details about listing in the MLS. Details such as filling out and returning the seller’s disclosure, where to track “buyer leads” in your account, where to track “website hits” and how to change your MLS listing status from “active” to “contract pending.” Our MLS administrators follow up with you to make sure we have the all-so-important seller’s disclosure stored in your account and ready to go when a Realtor needs it to present an offer. Our automatic email system will remind you if anything that is missing from your account.

This type of service and commitment to you is not possible at $159 or $199. Our service is not based on schemes and other ways to exploit a profit from the general public. Our service is about customer service, marketing internationally, making sure your listing is found on major FSBO websites and being a 12-hour-a-day facilitator to get your home sold.

But, then again, not all by owner sellers need this level of service provided by ADDvantage. Many flat fee MLS services offer flat fee as another way to make a few dollars doing something different than general real estate. At ADDvantage, we have invested many years building state-of-the-art MLS listing and management software. You benefit everyday from our advanced RSS feeds, our 100% paperless systems and our legendary 8:00am-8:00pm 7 days a week live support.

Call us anytime if you have questions about listing flat fee in the MLS with ADDvantage 1-877-232-9695 or visit our flat fee MLS listing site, getmoreoffers.com

Part 1 of 5 on the reasons why ADDvantage lists more homes in Florida than any other flat fee MLS listing company offering a similar service.

The reason why the ADDvantage brand of flat fee MLS is truly the most trusted name in discount MLS listings in Florida is because we don’t misrepresent the truth about what flat fee MLS is and what is not.

We offer a service based on what we know sellers need, rather than what other companies are doing.

Our phones are answered live, by a professional MLS administrator, 7 days a week from 8:00am-8:00pm. Many people scoff at this and say “I don’t need this because all calls come directly to me.” This is 100% untrue.

Even though an ADDvantage flat fee MLS listing costs $150 more than many flat fee services in Florida, we have twice as many flat fee MLS listing in Florida than our closest state or national competitor offering a similar service.

Miami homeowners prefer listing though ADDvantage because they know the difference between an ADDvantage flat fee MLS listing compared with other offers.

There remains one flat fee MLS listing service that guarantees by owners in Florida more Realtor showings, more buyer leads and an overall better selling experience…that’s ADDvantage.

An ADDvantage flat fee MLS listing costs $349. This $349 will be your best investment when it’s time to sell your home, condo, commercial, or vacant land in Miami, Weston, South Beach, North Beach, Coral Gables, South Miami, Plantation, Ft. Lauderdale, Hollywood, Hollywood Beach, Golden Beach, Homestead, Davie or other South Florida cities.

Flat fee MLS websites throughout Florida advertise on their websites that “all calls go directly to you” which is why so many people now believe this statement is true. Websites say this because they want you believe that phone support is not an integral part of listing flat fee in the MLS. They want you to believe this malarkey because they can’t offer reliable or “stated hours” of live phone support because it cost too much to have an MLS administrator be available 12 hours a day 7 days a week, like ADDvantage does.

If you charge just $159 for a MLS listing, there is only enough money to “input” the listing in the MLS, some phone support and changes to the listing…when they can get around to it. There are other important functions that make an ADDvantage MLS listing worth more to you such as the confidence to know that we never miss a Realtor call for a showing or an unrepresented buyer’s call for more information. This is what sells a home!

Our live phone support consistently gets more Miami homes “sold” we are able to assist “unrepresented buyers” and Realtors the instant they call us. Our guaranteed phone support results in more showings and a better overall experience.

As one of our Miami flat fee MLS clients said recently in a testimonial submitted to ADDvantage, “ADDvantage is like having a Realtor camped out at your front door.”

We have answered over 2,950 calls from Realtors or buyers in Florida over the past 12 months. This is further evidence of just how important reliable phone support truly is to a Miami flat fee MLS seller. 2,950 calls came to ADDvantage despite that fact that we publish the seller’s phone number in the MLS under the “Realtor remarks” section of the MLS for all Realtors to “call seller directly for all showings and offers 305-878-0121.” Still, many Realtors find their way to calling the flat fee MLS service. Their reasons vary as to why they call but here are a few example of what they say. The number one reason is, “Oh, I didn’t see their number.” But, there are many other explanations. Some Realtors could care less about what the MLS says and they call the listing broker because for the past 70 years, calling the listing agent has been protocol. And, if you don’t know, the listing broker (flat fee company) phone number must be in the MLS. There more examples…often, a Realtor is attempting to show a home and the seller is unavailable…in this case, we give the Realtor showing instructions for our seller, if the seller has stored a lock box combination in our system. Of course, they need to prove they are a Realtor with a valid license number.

See Part 2 blog for more reasons why ADDvantage lists more homes in Florida than any other flat fee MLS listing company offering a similar service.

Call us anytime, 1-877-232-9695