SELLWISE™ OVERVIEW
SELLWISE™ OVERVIEW
SELLWISE™ Flat Fee MLS Listing Service – Affordable, Professional, and Effective.
Thank you for checking out our SELLWISE™ Service. My name is Ralph Howard, a Tennessee Discount Real Estate Broker and co-owner of RDH Services, LLC. Our real estate firm specializes in providing professional marketing alternatives for home sellers. Our main focus is to provide great customer service using professional tools and alternatives to the BIG Commission approach of selling real estate in Tennessee.
If you want to sell your home the smart way you are at the right place.
Our SELLWISE™ Sellers know:
1. If they listed and sold with a BIG commission company they would loose a big chunk of their equity.
2. It’s the MLS buyer agents NOT the MLS listing agents that are selling the homes 95% of the time.
3. Our SELLWISE™ Flat Fee Service gives the same MLS exposure the BIG commission companies provide.
4. Properly pricing the home for sale is something the seller controls NOT the listing agent. Our sellers know and accept that responsibility to get more showings and ultimately to get an acceptable offer.
5. They know that ordering a MLS service through most national online companies is really just ordering through a middleman or a referral company. They know 50% to 75% or more of what they pay will be kept by the online company for just referring the seller to a local agent. Normally those companies just refer you to the listing agent that is the low bidder for doing listings in your home’s area.
An overview of our Flat Fee Service:
- We trust you. Pay for your MLS listing after your home is listed on the MLS. We want you to have the full opportunity to complete the listing process and have your listing in hand before you actually pay us. Normally most online companies want your payment before they raise a finger. Our approach to payment demonstrates we are dedicated to servicing you and want you to be fully satisfied.
- We’ll upload your MLS listing which will be almost identical to other MLS listings in your area. We use the same MLS that the largest and most recognized real estate companies and franchises use in your area.
- All the local agents and brokers in your area will have access to your listing 24/7 for as long as it is listed. This can be as few as 300 agents to 9,000 agents depending on which MLS covers your home’s local market.
- Agents who have buyers that are looking for a home like yours in your community will contact you to set up their showings. You should always know who is showing your home and when your home is being shown.
- You stay in control – Anyone who contacts us about your listing will be referred directly to you so you can provide the most current and accurate information about your home. Most traditional listing agents do not allow potential buyers and seller to communicate with each other.
- Your listing can grab immediate attention the first day it is listed – if it is priced properly even in a slow market. For example a investor who uses our service to sell his homes told us one of his Middle Tennessee listings we listed late on 8.26.2011 got 10 calls on the 27th and two offers by mid-afternoon on 8.28.2011.
- The MLS as well as other sites will display your listing with the maximum number of photos permitted if you select a plan that permits the max. photos. Having an abundance of photos works to attract buyers looking for a home in your price range and area. For serious buyers who really want to learn about your home we have a Visual Tour that we can upload that allows you to provide as much detail as you will want to provide under each photo. The fee for this extremely powerful marketing tool is $65.00. The photos are large (approximately 75% of the screen size the viewer is using) and the tour gets posted on third party sites like Realtor.com, Zillow.com and Trulia.com. What we have found is the tour gives the serious buyer a quick, convenient way to visit the home for the first time.
- The main thing FSBO sellers notice about our service is that more motivated and qualified buyers, rather than FSBO lookers, are viewing their home. Experienced Realtors® don’t waste gas and time showing homes to unqualified – unmotivated buyers. If the home is not priced properly MLS buyers or their agents may choose to skip certain homes. Most agents and their buyers are aware of the average market price for homes in the area they are shopping. Many compute the cost per square foot and decide whether to schedule a showing or not. If a home is over priced, the only showings the home may have will be to use the over priced home to help sell another more reasonably priced home.
- Our yard sign works for the seller. It is a Realtor and FSBO friendly sign.
- And here’s the best part about using our SELLWISE Flat Fee MLS Listing Service: If you procure your own buyer you pay zero commission. You will not find that provision in a BIG commission company’s listing agreement.
- We hope one of our SELLWISE™ Listing Services is exactly what you are looking for. If you have questions please feel free to contact us for more details.
What’s the difference in real estate services and companies?
OK, you want to learn more. We understand and respect your desire to be more informed. Let’s dig a little deeper. As mentioned earlier, our company is a licensed Tennessee real estate firm. RDH Services, LLC specializes in providing affordable and professional real estate services for sellers. To do this for sellers we charge a low flat fee rather than work off a commission. The savings with our SELLWISE™ Service benefit both the buyer and seller of our listed homes.
Companies that offer flat fee services and discounted services for sellers fall in several categories as explained below:
National For Sale By Owner Companies:
These companies often have a strong Internet presence. They are usually not licensed in the state they offer services so they refer their orders to list a home to local agents. Seldom does the listing agent receive even half of the fee you pay for the service you purchase. You may get a good listing broker but he/she may need to do a lot of listings to make it work financially. Many times the customer is the one who suffers since the listing agent can not or does not receive enough compensation to have the staff needed to service the seller professionally. Keep in mind that some national companies suggest agents bid $75.00 per listing to get referrals to upload listings that the online company charges approximately $400.00 or more. Note: Most of those companies allow unlimited photos on their site for the listing but that does not apply to the MLS listing.
National Flat Fee Listing Companies:
These companies often have a strong Internet presence. Most of the national companies have multiple states they are licensed in. These companies tend to understand the industry better, but may not understand your local MLS, the local market and the areas they list in. It helps when your listing agent is not working 100% virtually and can pronounce your county and town’s name correctly. The national companies often do business the same way they do business in the state they are located. We know if we had a lot of different states it would take several brokers with extensive experience in those states and markets to have time to provide prompt professional assistance to our customers and clients. Some of these companies spend much of their online promotion trying to establish creditability based on their multi-state exposure and cautioning consumers about the kind of flat fee brokers you don’t want to use. This is ironical because the very companies they caution you about are the same companies they use when they need to refer a customer to an area they do not serve.
Tennessee Based Companies like ours:
These companies may or may not have a strong Internet presence. If established, in our opinion, these companies seem to be the best for most real estate consumer because the consumer is communicating directly with the “provider” of the service they are going to be receiving. They are usually the most experienced specialist in the markets and state they serve. This is a big benefit because some national companies are so focused on getting orders they tend to make customers think getting their home on the MLS is no more complicated than running an ad on eBay.com®. All Tennessee real estate brokers and agents are regulated by the TN Real Estate Commission and are subject to audit. There are many rules and laws that must be adhered to for everyone’s benefit. Our company and broker are in good standing with all the Multiple Listing Services we belong to and the TN Real Estate Commission.
If you are selling your home by owner, You probably want to get more showings and more offers.
It can be difficult in today’s market to get “qualified” buyers to choose your home even when listed on major FSBO sites. Anyone who’s had a a home for sale as a for sale by owner knows this. Fortunately, there is a discount real estate service called SELLWISE™ that can get you the exposure you need to sell your home without using an excessive amount of your equity.
We are a “no hype” company. We are upfront and engaged in what we do and say. We are friendly, knowledgeable, experienced and focused on providing affordable professional real estate services. We have our own ideas about the real estate industry and few traditional real estate agents will likely share the same opinions we have. Past experience as an agent and broker with traditional real estate companies has provided us with a lot of insight on how many real estate companies operate. From that experience, we understand fully how their commission based business model affects realty consumers.
Let’s face it – nobody comes to our site to spend money, unless what we offer is a good value. We focus on offering you the best value for your money. We know you can spend much more and much less. We know that you can find other services telling you they are #1 or telling you how inferior some companies are and how superior their service is.
You found our site for one reason - that reason is you want to sell your home wisely. We focus on that goal and helping you to be successful.
When you use our premium service we market your home we don’t just list it. We are not aware of any company traditional or fee for service company in Tennessee that offers the level of marketing that our premium service provides. We build individual web sites that includes your home’s address as the URL. We then focus on certain features your home offers. You tell us the best features your home has such as: located in the best neighborhood, low utilities, best schools, best price in the neighborhood, you are offering to pay the buyer’s closing cost, willing to lease, your home is eligible for special financing or that your home can be bought direct from you as a FSBO. The special marketing we do is designed to help you procure your own buyer and avoid paying any real estate commission.
There’s no way around this one fact – The MLS is the market and for years it has been the most effective way to sell a home. It doesn’t matter where you are located in the US, the residential real estate market consists of more than 900 local MLSs across the country. The success of the MLS is phenomenal and it cannot be overlooked for it’s power as a marketing tool for anyone serious about selling his/her home.
The MLS is where most motivated and qualified buyers find a home. The MLS and professional Realtors® offer the selection and convenience that buyers want and need. The MLS provides Realtors® the database and the tools plus the incentive it takes to sell homes on a commission basis. Realtors® can show buyers which home offers the best overall value. This makes it easier for a buyer to be informed enough to comfortably make one of life’s biggest financial decisions.
We don’t sell homes - We make it possible for you to market your home to unrepresented buyers and represented buyers and give your home 24/7 exposure to professionals that sell homes. If you are a FSBO you can not afford to miss out on using our SELLWISE™ Service to market your home through the MLS. Our service does not slow down your personal marketing as a FSBO – It compliments it. If you find the right buyer before a MLS real estate agent does and no real estate agent is involved in the sale, you owe no commission. If an agent finds a buyer that closes on your home, you have sold your home and paid approximately half what other sellers paid who didn’t sell wise. Over 80% of the homes that sell in your area are listed in your area’s Multiple Listing Service (MLS).
Some information about RDH Services, LLC
- RDH Services, LLC has been providing affordable MLS listing services longer than any TN based company.
- Broker with 23+ years residential sales experience, including over a decade of representing buyers and another decade providing Tennessee Discount Broker Flat Fee MLS Listings.
- Years of residential real estate experience has provided the founders and owners of RDH Services, LLC an abundance of hands on experience on what it takes to professionally buy or sell a home. They also know no service is any better than the last client or customer served.
- RDH Services, LLC has successfully served thousands of Tennessee real estate consumers.
- Each one of those sales represent a testimonial.
- Unlike many companies, RDH Services, LLC is a transparent “open book” company. Anyone interested in our company’s services from a current user’s perspective, can contact any of our sellers. We display full access to all of our seller’s contact information on our web site. We do not ask our sellers to give us a testimonial for several reasons. Think about it – Have you ever seen a negative testimonial posted on a web site. Need more assurance. Just contact us. We want you to sell your home and sell it wisely. Part of being successful will be due to selecting the right company and broker.
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