#1 Tip for Selling Your Lakewood Ranch Real Estate

by

Adam S. Waxler

We all know, the Lakewood Ranch real estate market was hit hard during the last few years. For that reason, lots of people are pushed to lower their price if they seriously need to sell a home in Lakewood Ranch.

Sadly, as a result of the market, most people simply can not reduce their price any further. When they consider the real estate fees that have to be paid out these people understand they’ve gone as low as they are able to go. Any lower and they will have to short sale their house and everyone knows what a headache that is.

However, as it normally occurs to anyone selling a home in Lakewood Ranch, if they could just remove that commission then they could drop their price. This leads a lot of people to attempt to sell their Lakewood Ranch real estate without using a realtor.

The thing is, these FSBOs (For Sale By Owners) do not understand how tough it can be to sell a home in Lakewood Ranch on their own. First of all, if you do not employ a real estate agent, you lose out on the professional advice of the agent as well as the advertising of the real estate agency. Not to mention having to run all your own open houses and being accessible for all showings. However, the greatest problem of all is that without the assistance of a Realtor you have no way of listing your Lakewood Ranch real estate in the Mid-Florida Regional MLS and if your house is not listed in an MLS you have cut down tremendously the odds that it will actually sell.

So what’s someone who is selling a house in Lakewood Ranch to do? On the one hand they need to get rid of their real estate agent so they can lower the price of their house, but on the other hand, they need the real estate agent for all the reasons described above.

Fortunately, there is a solution to this problem and to some extent you CAN have the best of both worlds…you CAN sell a home in Lakewood Ranch on your own and save the thousands of dollars you would typically spend on real estate commission.

How?

The answer is simple…Go with a local flat fee listing company. With a flat fee listing company you can list your Lakewood Ranch real estate in the Mid-Florida Regional MLS (along with a number of other sites) for a one-time flat fee that typically ranges in price, but can be as low as 299.00 depending on the company you choose.

Having your house listed in the Mid-Florida Regional MLS is definitely the most important step you can take in order to sell your house in Lakewood Ranch. To tell the truth, if you are not in the Mid-Florida Regional MLS other real estate agents will NEVER know your home is for sale and they will NEVER know to tell their clients about it.

Naturally, if you go this route you will still have to pay a fee to an outside agent, but you don’t have to pay a listing agent any commission (other than your one-time flat fee). This savings usually amounts to 3% of selling price of your home. Do the math…if your Lakewood Ranch home sells for $300,000 and you save 3% in commission, then your savings amounts to $9000 (minus your $299 flat fee). And, if you happen to acquire the buyer yourself (without an outside agent bringing the buyer) you then save the entire 6%…a total of $18,000 on a $300,000 (minus the $299 flat fee).

The real estate market has made it quite difficult to sell Lakewood Ranch real estate these days. It gets even more difficult if you are selling your house on your own. However, if you use a good local flat fee listing company you CAN sell a home in Lakewood Ranch and you CAN keep your portion of the commission (and potentially much more).

If you wish to list your

Lakewood Ranch real estate

in the Mid-Florida Regional MLS for a one-time flat fee of just $299.00 (including “for sale” sign, lockbox, and all contract forms) then contact uKeepCommission Real Estate at 941-465-9207 or visit: http://www.uKeepCommission.com

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