What is the best way to get listings as a real estate agent?
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I'm a real estate broker and have found there's no best way. There are many ways and you should use them all. Referrals, farming, canvassing, newspaper FSBO's and Internet free classifieds are the most populars.
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Commission is negotiable. You'll find realtors willing to take a 2% listing and others taking a 10% (that's typically on high-end, harder to sell homes that require costly marketing techniques). 4-7% is most typical, though.
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Did you try realtor.com ?
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www.realtor.com\n\nLets you search by property type, not just for houses.
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"Be Wise And Advertise". \nVisit local real estate offices and meet with the agents and their manager. Ask them for business, and when they call you follow up with them the status of their request. It's all about service and delivering a great results. This will grow your business fast. Also go to trade shows in your area, pass out your business card with additional information.
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if you only want just pictures, I would suggest getting a webfetcher programmed, but you are looking for listings. Agents are all not bad as long as you find the right one and you are clear about your request not to be bothered. if you start looking and find a home you like, it would be a lot better for you and your success at getting a home if you were building a relationship to a realtor. I would suggest getting an e-pro realtor and making sure they have access to client gateway or virtual office software. I'm a realtor in san diego. I set people up on an automated service that will get them links for exactly the kind of property they want in a personalized website. I check in with them and make sure they're clear on things and answer questions for them once in a while. Some of the people on my service are just like you and I have them on the service and I only talked to them 3 or 4 times in the last 8 months. that's the way they like it, that's the way I will do it. The other good thing is that you will be able to see the homes if you like them and not have to talk with the listing agent(the agent that is selling the property). dealing directly with them to see a house can be very annoying. they will deffinitly try and sell you. \n\ngood luck,\n\namir\n\nP.S. I can help find you some one in northern california if you like. just contact me and I will even tell them that you only want photos and you don't want to be bothered unless you want to see a house etc.
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It depends on how you want to sell your house, there are several ways or other ways to dispose of it and still earn a decent rental from it.\n\nOne way is the conventional method, interview about 3 real estate agents, get a compt of the properties in your nieghborhood,make the best deal you can with one ofthe agents that charge the fewer points for about the same service. Normally the real estate agent will want about 6% of the sales price as commission for selling the property,but that is not meshed in stone so you might be able to get one that will do it for less.\n\nFlat fee agency, they will do about the same,except they charge a flat fee that is normally about 2-3 points below the real estate agent. some are extremely knowledgable and some aren't interview about 2-3 before you make a selection.\n\nThen you can sell it yourself (FSBO) this is not as hard as you might think, you do the advertising in the local paper, prepare flyers and place them in the local stores in your neighborhood.\n\nYou might also contact a local Mortgage Broker for assistance in the services department, he might help if you supply him with a list of individuals that come by to look at your house who is not qualified to purchase a home but need to be pre-approved. He can assist you with escrow or closing agents, title, appraisal, insurance and other necessary things to close your transaction, as a matter of fact he might do a lot of things for you in exchage for a list of the names of the non-approved prospective home buyers.   \n\nYou may lease option, it is the best way that I find to sell a property,collect the rent without having to do anything to the property in the way of minor maintenace since the people moving in plan to purchase it some time in the future, they will do the minor maintenace and put that in your lease option contract.\n\nYou get a sort of non-refundable down payment, a long term lease to purchase.  I normally run an ad in the local paper something like this "lease to own,open house Sat and Sun 11AM-3PM each day, bring your check book,little or no credit check. I have yet to really have any serious problems.\n\nThe worst that can happen is they decide not to exercise their option, the best that can happen is they do exercise their option.\n\nif  they decide not to exercise their option you do the sam thing over again and again if it continue to happen. Someone will eventually get it right.\n\nI hope this has been of some use to you, good luck.\n\n"FIGHT ON"
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check with a realtor in your area/ they can tell you where to go/
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Have you checked with a local agent who can search high and low for you? A good agent will search not only what is on the market, but forclosures and for sale by owners. If you would like a refferral to an agent in the area, I would be more than happy to help you find someone. If you have any real estate questions you would like answered, please feel free to ask!
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If people would think about it, newbie realtors are the best!  They have fewer listings thus they can devote nearly all their time to selling your house.\n(How did you like that for an advertisement)\nBut it is true.  \nExplain to the prospective sellers what I have just said above.  Also tell them that you are just one of many professionals involved in the sale and closing of the house.  In fact you are really just the facilitator.  The lending institution, abstract/title company, closing company/attorney, the inspector, all have huge roles in getting that house closed and into the hands of new owners.\nTell them you are one of a team.  You will devote your undivided energies to marketing their house.  The others on your team will ensure that it closes properly.\nAlso, you are going to have to meet these people that want to buy and sell in the 400,000 range.  The easiest way to do that is to offer to hold open houses for other realtors that have houses in the price bracket listed.  Thus when the people come thru the open house you are the one they meet.
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a good commercial realtor could help, also just drive areas where you would like to locate and then ask other tenants and people in the neighborhoods
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In short - large and more expensive does not mean the best.\n\nYou should shop around for the best deal.  Estate Agents can find you buyers and help market your property, but beware of the fees.   Do not use sole agency, this puts you at risk if you are with a less than honest agent (some are honest) who will then get a "friend" to make an offer below market value (which they wont tell you).\n\nMarket through multiple agents (different companies - not just branches), you may pay up to 1% more commission but this way you will maximise the sale price.   Do not assume small agents are better, some are, some are not, the safest way is multiple agent marketing.  Additionally consider marketing your property on line - many companies provide this service - type property to sell in your search engine and take a look.\n\nGood luck
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Be real good, get an agent
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1. At an open house of one of your clients\n2. Word of mouth\n3. Create a web site\n4. The local newspaper\n\nThere are tons of realtors, so you need an angle... such as experience, niche, rebates, etc...
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Best resource is the Department of Housing and Urban Development's website. Also, you may want to contact the national association of realtors for a list of agents who can help.
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Look here:\n\nhttp://www.realtor.com
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http://www.realestateagentlive.com/