What is a BLS?
"BLS" is, quite simply, a Buyer Listing Service. Instead of homesellers marketing what they have to sell, it is a forum in which homebuyers may detail the characteristics of the home which they are looking for. Sellers may then search for buyers based on their home's characteristics. Think of it as MLS in Reverse.
Before the internet, the costs associated with publishing and marketing homebuyers' needs rendered this "reverse" model ineffective. Buyers simply wouldn't pay to market the characteristics they were looking for in a home because homesellers found marketing their home "for sale" an associated cost of selling. Homebuyers needed only to search via traditional methods (open houses, Realtor assistance etc.). With the rapid acceptance of the internet as a medium by which people can freely and openly communicate, the traditional model has found itself outdated. This new "reverse" model is now cost and time effective, and eliminates a vast amount of pitfalls by which the traditional model was plagued.
Marc Mcgee, a fellow "Active Rainian", has written on this concept numerous times, and mentioned my website http://www.buyerhunt.com/, in conjunction with his BLOG posts. Marc, as well as anyone, knows that there is an imminent paradigm shift on the horizon, and that many agents are behind the curve.
I, too, have dedicated much of my time and effort to this very same cause, and http://www.buyerhunt.com/ is the result. I certainly hope all agents reading this will check it out. Right now I am focusing on the Phoenix-Metro area, but the site is open to all who wish to use it across the U.S. For more information on how it can benefit everyone, simply check out my profile.
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