As a real estate investor, I'm very excited about the prospects of being able to list my houses in MLS for free on Iggy's, however, it does not seem to be functional at this time. I filled in the information for one of my houses to list it and it will not send it to the MLS. Repeated emails sent to them for information do not get replies. Keeping my fingers crossed this works!

Sellers and buyers should have a choice whether or not to use a Realtor to represent them in a transaction. It is totally reasonable for a buyer to get a large chunk of the commission if buyer does all the work. 

I read a post above about a woman making a purchase mistake, however I heard just as many stories about conflict of interest for a Realtor:

1. Realtor providing a house inspector that will not "kill the deal". The don't kill the deal agreement is almost implicit nowdays when a realtor is the one providing an inspector

2. Realtor pushing clients into bad deals (just like the one described above)

There is a sense of entitlement in realtor community to having the "Profession" preserved, however the monopoly on access Real Estate information is no more and MLS is accessible to the masses. It will take them  few years to figure out how to use it, but then the use of Real Estate agents in traditional sense will become minimal.

Amy,

Have you heard any more about Iggyshouse?  I had someone recently tell me that they could list their house free in the MLS and I was doubtful.  I ran a search and came across your blog -small world.

I recenty came across a buyer who came in and said they are using buysiderealty.  They researched everything and now he is getting 75% buyer agent commission.  I think buyside or iggy is a niche, designed to benefit truly analytical seasoned buyers.  Not for first time buyer or buyer who are simply too busy to get involved.  Therefore, experience Realtor are not at risk.  As for the search engine with buyside, I don't think is all that special.  I have try to do research and came up with less than other popular search engine.

BEWARE!  I just spend HOURS putting a property into Iggy's House for a friend, and when we hit the button to get the MLS, we were faced with what was basically an agreement making their sister buy-side site our agent.  In other words, this is NOT a way to get your FSBO onto MLS and still preserve your right to sell the property yourself.   Their advertizing is very cleverly worded so you don't know that until the end of the process.  The other thing is that you cannot talk to anyone at Iggys about the process to better understand it.  I tried.   A third negative:  if you send anyone to the Iggy's site to look at your info, they are soon tempted by the hook to their buy side  site with the promise to rebate 75% of their commission.  YOUR money.

My advice to you (as a person who has been successful with FSBO's quite a few times) is to go to owners.com (whick isn't as fancy as Iggys as a site but it's still a good one), load your stuff, then use their flat fee MLS process.   You actually talk to a very knowledgable human being who gets you to a flat fee agent who then loads you into the MLS of your area - which in turn gets you onto REALTOR.com, which is the end result you need.   We paid under $400.  It was a very good experience.

 PS We learned there are lots of flat fee MLS offers out there that say they get you MLS for under $400.  We tried one - the screen you enter your credit card into said we would be told the "shipping and paperwork" charges after we completed the transaction.   

Saw Iggy's web site and unfortunately I've wasted one whole week to get things processed and it's still not done yet.

They don't answer calls; they don't call you back, and they don't reply any emails that I sent. Impossible to communicate. And they don't get the job done. They even sent the wrong item out when I ordered from the IGGYS Store.

we used iggy house to sell our home in february 2008 and shortly after closing, they were suspended in the state of SC.  I do not tknow what happenned but we sold for free!!!!!!

Looks like iggys house may have closed up shop.

http://rentbits.com/blog/real-estate-news/iggys-house-down-for-the-count

I listed and sold my house through Iggyshouse.com this spring and it worked beautifully. I had no trouble whatsoever and did not pay any real estate commissions as I found the buyer. I found iggyshouse to be honest, upfront, and there were no hidden fees. Of course they do require you to sign a contract, but the contract specifically states that it is for the purpose of putting the house on the MLS only. I referred a friend to this site. They were able to get on it last week, but now it has been down for 4-5 days. I have no idea what happened, but if they still exist I very highly recommend. 

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I heard about this web sight called Iggy's house. Does anybody know the email address for Iggy's house so that I can list my house on mls for free?  I am currently selling my house " for sale by owner ".

Thank You

I just heard that Iggy's house web sight is down or taken off, is that true or is their another email address for free mls listing?

Thank You

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I love Iggy's house, although it was just purchased and it is being revamped.  I am not an agent, but I buy and sell houses a lot.  True, many people don't know anything about finances or simply don't have the basic intelligence to look things up for themselves (like home prices).  If someone buys a house and pays too much for it, shame on them.  You don't need an agent to tell you what a good price for a house is if you do your homework.  With the amount of info available on the web today, you can get all of that info right from your computer. 

I'm not knocking what agents do.  I know many of you work very hard.  I worked for Elite Homes Magazine for several years, and I saw how good many of the agents were, and just how hard they worked.  But, let's face it.  A new age is upon us, and with the new generations emerging, I really don't see agents being part of the picture in the future.  Kids will buy and sell homes all from their PDA cell phones in the future.  People no longer want to pay $24-50k in commissions for listing their homes and working with a buying agent.  I know I don't.  I can do all that myself.  The forms are a piece of cake, and the title company does most of the work.  Sites like iggy's house will make it possible for people like me to list my house quickly and efficiently, lower my price to make it more competitive (for a short while until everyone stops using agents), and allows me to test the waters.  With an agent, I can't simply list my house for a few weeks to see if I can seel it or not.  With iggy's house, I can.

I know I will not be popular on this forum, but I just wanted to give you all my opinion.  If I were an agent, and I planned on being in this industry for a long time, I would start looking at new ways to market my services.  And, simply have a crappy website up doesn't help.  If people can't find your site, it doesn't do anything.  Also, too many agents have super busy websites overloaded with information.  People don't want that.  They want a simple, easy to use website that lets them search for homes.  Then, make sure you organically grow your site so it appears on google's natural search results.  Lastly, advertise heavily in your area with monthly postcards, and sponsor events if you can afford it.  When everyone knows your name, they will use you.

After using several real estate agents who just wasted my time, I decided to buy a house on my own. The entire process went seemlessly. It saved the seller a lot of money, and it also saved me time and energy. I highly recommend it for people willing to do some research, and not just blindly stumble over a deal.

When selling a property though, I was thinking I might need a realtor just to list the property on MLS. As I found out, there are several online services that charge a couple of hundred dollars to do that, which is still cheaper than an agent's commission. Not to mention it would save my breath when all a realtor does is to push for lowering the selling price just to get his commission faster...

I was excited to hear that Iggy's House was doing it for free! It was a great service for the consumer and I strongly support its re-activation.

Don't flame me: everyone is entitled to his opinion.