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Home page Judith’s Blog Information For Home Sellers When You Pay A Realtor 6% — What is That FOR?

When You Pay A Realtor 6% — What is That FOR?

1 December, 2016 by Judith at Home Sellers, Luxury Properties, Information For, SMARTePLANS, Thinking Out Loud

Do You Know How Much of That 6% Is Actually Spent On Marketing Your Home?

Probably Not.  Come along and crunch the numbers with us.  You’ll see why it is a very good idea to have that conversation with your proposed real estate agent before you sign the listing agreement.  Not all agents spend the same amount of money marketing their properties — and you need to understand and be on board with your agent’s plan for your property.

 SMARTePLANS asks all  potential luxury home sellers a basic question……

HOW WILL YOU GET THE BEST  MARKETING WHEN YOU SELL
YOUR LUXURY HOME IN HOUSTON?

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The answer depends on YOU!

When you choose your Agent, you choose the level of marketing your property will receive. So spend time discussing with your potential agent their plans for marketing your home.

SMARTePLANS is not a real estate agent. We specialize in marketing high end luxury homes and have a wide product slate of patented and proprietary tools and techniques that agents just do not have available to them.

An agent can hire us to do the marketing for your property and gain access to our expertise.

The Agent will Ask … Does This System Work? -and- How Much Does it Cost Me?

Cost to the Agent?  Wait … Back Up …. Let’s start with commissions/cost to the Home Seller. 

As a Seller you are already paying your agent 6% to market and sell your home, so the cost for  SMARTePLAN marketing is already included in “your” 6%,  as it is considered a marketing cost. 

Not getting a SMARTePLAN, but still paying the same 6% … well, WHAT are you paying for? Do you know?

 

Obviously … if an Agent is charging  you $30K to market and sell your luxury home …..and  putting it on MLS with professional photography costs $600-ish … than you’ll want to understand what “other marketing” is in their tool-kit that you are already paying for ….  and the total effort / costs actually budgeted towards marketing YOUR home. 

For Example …. 

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO PUT IT ON MLS w/PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS?

Come along with us as we crunch some numbers and do the math …

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Thanks for Stopping By,

Judith, The SMARTePLAN Lady

SMARTePLANS® is the premier marketing system for luxury homes featuring online easy-to-read pictographic floor plan pictorials, where the photographs launch from inside the floor plan … NOW all the photos make sense!  SMARTePLANS® is very effective at selling high end luxury properties. You can seamlessly click around the property, viewing the photos in relationship to the pictographic floor plan drawing.  This is not a video … you choose what you want to view … or not. [TIP: Hold down your CTRL key and roll your mouse wheel to quickly zoom in and out of the drawing — no detail is too small to see!] The compilation above is the original creative work and copyrighted property of SMARTePLANS®. You may link to it; but it may not be copied, nor reproduced in any form or format in whole or in part without the express written permission of Judith Sinnard.

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