Flat Fee MLS Listings - For Sale By Owner

Avar Realty  and Huntsville.HelpMeSell.com are Members of the Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Realtors and North Alabama MLS Service. We are the premier flat fee commission - discount broker for Huntsville and North Alabama.

List your property in the MLS for a flat listing fee as low as $329.99 instead of agreeing to pay a Realtor 6%.  Pay an agent who brings you a buyer 2% to 3% (varies by area). If you find a buyer, you don't pay any commission at all! (We'll let you do the math of 6% of the value of your home versus $329.99.)

You get a professional MLS listing with all the essentials that 6% agents provide, PLUS all the cost saving benefits of selling as a "For Sale By Owner" for a flat fee.

No matter how much another real estate company charges you, your listing will be placed in the same MLS, PLUS your listing will appear on literally hundreds of other websites that display MLS listings, including national sites such as realtor.com, msn.com, remax.com, kw.com, prudential.com, realestate.com, excite.com and more

If you list with a typical 6% Realtor, and the property sells, you pay the whole 6%, even if the buyer is your neighbor and the Realtor didn't do anything other than put his sign in the yard and enter the listing in MLS. It gets worse - if you read the fine print in the typical 6% listing contract, you'll notice that you owe the entire commission if you want to cancel your listing early (perhaps because the agent didn't do anything), or if you lease the home without the agent's permission! The main reason so many sellers sign such contracts is that they never read them.

Why being listed in MLS is so important

1. MLS stands for "Multiple Listing Service", and is "the real estate market".
2. Over 90% of all properties sold in the US are as a result of MLS listing exposure.
3. Being listed in MLS means all the local Realtors can find your home in their MLS database.
4. Buyers can find your home on thousands of public MLS websites, where they are most likely to be searching for a home.
5. MLS listed properties (for sale by owner or not) sell faster and for more money than non-MLS listed "for sale by owner" properties.

Why a Flat Fee MLS Listing is better than listing with a 6% Realtor

1. You get the same MLS listing in the same local MLS for a one-time low Flat Fee instead of 6%.
2. If you sell your home without a buyer's agent involved, there is zero commission.
3. More exposure on hundreds of national MLS websites. Many 6% Realtors limit the exposure to public websites to increase their chances of getting the entire 6% commission.

What is "MLS"?

MLS stands for "Multiple Listing Service". Most people refer to MLS as if it were all one big database of homes. Actually there are over a thousand individual MLSs across the country; some big, some small. They are all separate from each other, so a Realtor who looks on his local MLS in Boston can't see the listings in the Miami MLS. That's why it's so important to be listed in the correct local MLS. There are many national websites, like Realtor.com, that aggregate listings from all these 1000 MLSs, and put them all on one giant website. Some information, such as commissions offered to agents and owner contact information, is only displayed on the local MLS for agents to see, and not the national public websites.

Why you need a Realtor to list your home in MLS

Only a licensed real estate broker who belongs to the MLS and pays the MLS dues and fees is able to list a property. An individual can't simply post an "ad" in MLS, like placing an ad in a newspaper. The real estate broker is also responsible for the accuracy of the listing, and keeping it current. For example, the broker can lose his MLS membership or pay heavy fines if a property is under contract or sold, but still listed as "Active" in MLS. When you list with us, a licensed broker who belongs to the MLS where your property is located will be assigned to your listing.

Easy Steps to List Your Property

1. Go to our our website http://www.HuntsvilleFlatFeeMLS.com
2. Select "Place Order" Choose the service that best fits your needs.
3. Enter payment information and address of the property to be listed
4. Within 5 minutes you will receive a receipt for your payment by email
5. We will contact you assist you in filling out the forms that will be sent to you by email.
6. You complete the forms/paperwork per instructions, and send it to your local broker.
7. Your property will be listed in MLS by the end of the following business day, but usually the same day if received early in the day.
8. You can contact us at any time 256-726-9206
9. Once the property is in MLS, it will take 2-5 days before it appears in all the other national websites, such as Realtor.com or yahoo.com. This is based on the data update cycle of when the various websites retrieve new listing information from your local MLS.  
   

For more information contact one of our flat fee agents.