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LETS TALK ABOUT COMMISSION
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Let’s Talk About Commission For a Moment… Fact #1: Home owners in this area sell their homes by themselves on average for 93-94% of the asking price. (Statistic by the the National Association of Realtors) Fact #2: TREGO REALTY averages selling their listings for 98.5-99.5% of the asking price. Fact #3: The difference in Fact #1 versus Fact #2 is between 4.5-6.5% of the asking price. On a $100,000 house, that’s between $4500-$6500. Fact #4: For Sale By Owners #1 reason for listing by themselves is to avoid the real estate commission charged by a Realtor/Brokerage. Fact #5: TREGO REALTY offers “flexible commission” plans because not everyone can afford top tier commissions for the sale of their home. Let’s Talk About Marketing For a Moment… Fact #1: Homes sell faster and for more of the asking price if they are able to be found on the Internet. 90% of buyers (or more) start their search for homes on the Internet. Fact #2: For Sale By Owner websites are nowhere to be found on the Internet when people search for “Cedar Rapids Real Estate,” overwhelmingly the most popular key search phrase for real estate in Cedar Rapids. By a margin of 10-1, buyers type in this key search phrase. Fact #3: www.ChristopherSmithRealtor.com is on page one of Google for “Cedar Rapids Real Estate.” It can also be found on MSN, YAHOO, and BING search engines as well. Hundreds of visitors find and visit my site each and every day. Your listing is on my homepage as a “FEATURED LISTING” and it sells faster and for more of the asking price. SOLD, you are now on your way to your next home; end of story! Fact #4: Buyers are hungry for multiple photographs, virtual tours, and video. If you don’t have ALL THREE, you are missing a large segment of the buying market. I take 36 photographs, offer a FREE VIRTUAL TOUR, and SHOOT A PROFESSIONAL REAL ESTATE VIDEO of your property and “BLAST” it off to dozens of real estate websites across the country for MAXIMUM EXPOSURE. Fact #5: I am the #1 marketer of real estate in the city of Cedar Rapids, and I PROMISE YOU that I will expose your home to more potential buyers than any other Realtor or Brokerage! …and FINALLY, Let’s Talk About VALUE!!! Fact #1: By exposing your home to more potential buyers than yourself, any other Realtor or Brokerage, I can save you between $4500-$6500. Fact #2: It takes the average For Sale By Owner twice as long to sell his/her listing than it does a Realtor. Why??? One word: EXPOSURE! Fact #3: The average For Sale By Owner Listing sells after six months on the market by yourself. You pay $1000.00 a month in mortgage, and about $500 a month in utilities, insurance, taxes, etc… $1500 X 6 = $9000. Fact #4: The average Realtor (just average) sells your listing in three months time (PRICE, CONDITION, MARKET DEMAND, and MARKETING must be present). $1500 X 3 = $4500, a difference of $4500 for you the seller. Fact #5: No other Realtor or Brokerage in town can provide you with as much VALUE as TREGO REALTY and The Christopher Smith Team. 1. We PRICEyour home using our highest priced analysis. 2. Our ROOM BY ROOM REVIEW BOOK gets the CONDITION of the inside of your home MOVE-IN READY!!! 3. In creating MARKET DEMAND, we like to use one of the six weapons of influence that is on p. 16 of our booklet, “How to Sell Your House For Top Dollar – Fast, and that is SCARCITY! 4. MARKETING IS MY ONLY SPECIALIZATION! Most Realtors will tell you they are experts in your neighborhood, with buyers, with sellers, or with For Sale By Owners. My field of expertise is MARKETING. My JOB is to get your house SOLD as quickly as possible, so that you save as much money as possible, so that you and your family can move forward with your lives into your next home. The biggest companies in town cannot sell your house any faster. (Ask me why) Discount brokerages cannot sell your house any faster (Ask me why) PRICE, CONDITION, MARKET DEMAND, and MARKETING will sell your house all day, everyday! I understand that commission is expensive. I’ve bought and sold four houses myself, so I know. When you eventually list with a Realtor, please list your house with The Christopher Smith Team at TREGO REALTY and we promise you VALUE, honesty, integrity, communication, and peace of mind! |
TOP TEN REASONS TO LIST YOUR HOUSE WITH THE CHRISTOPHER SMITH TEAM!
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TOP TEN REASONS TO LIST YOUR HOUSE WITH TRADITIONS REAL ESTATE & THE CHRISTOPHER SMITH TEAM! - Traditions Real Estate Offers a 5% commission plan that out-markets the competition on average 10-1. Why should you pay top tier commission rates for substandard performance by your real estate company.
- If the “average” For Sale By Owner sells his/her house for 93% of the asking price and Traditions Real Estate sells their listings on average for 98.5-99.5% of the asking price, that’s a difference of between 5.5% and 6.5%. On a $100,000 house, that’s a savings of $5500-$6500 that goes into your pocket at closing!!!
- With our Point2Agent website, we can expose your “listing” to more potential buyers than any other Realtor or Brokerage in town resulting in a faster sale and for more of the asking price. Oh, but wait!!! Your website has to be found on the Internet to make that claim. No worries! My website is on page one of Google for the #1 key search phrase, “Cedar Rapids Real Estate.” Hundreds of buyers visit my site every day!
- We take 36 High Resolution, Wide Angle Lens photographs of your property. Remember, buyers are hungry for photographs, and we give them the very best! No other Realtor takes that many photographs of their properties!
- We stitch together all 36 photographs to create a free Virtual Tour of your property. This is still one of the most requested pages on our website and it sells homes!
- Traditions Real Estate and The Christopher Smith Team are the only brokerage/Realtor in town to shoot their own professional real estate video of your property. Imagine sitting in your pajamas at 11:00 p.m. wanting to take a tour through 123 Elm Street. You can when you go to my Video Tours Tab on my website. Did I say that Traditions Real Estate is a cutting edge technology real estate company!
- VALUE, VALUE, VALUE!!! Let us explain how we can actually save you money by listing with a Real Estate Company! By exposing your home to more potential buyers, your home will sell faster and for more of the asking price, and you’ll be on your way to your next home, we promise!!!
- EXCLUSIVE V.I.P. ACCESS PASSCODE to the backdoor of our website so you can see the marketing taking place. You’ll know when a potential buyer downloads your listing brochure, where a buyer finds your home (whether it’s our site or Google, Yahoo, Oodle, Wellcomemat, or dozens of other real estate affiliate sites). Once your home becomes a “Featured Listing” on our homepage, it is BLASTED out to 50 of the top Realtor websites in town, and 30 local, regional, and national real estate websites for Maximum Exposure!!!
- When you were a teenager, you wanted the most sound in your loudspeaker as you could possibly afford, right!!! With real estate services, shouldn’t you expect a little higher standards from your brokerage and/or Realtor??? Our 5% Commission Plan runs circles around every other Brokerage in town’s top tier commission plan. Don’t believe us. We’ve got some questions we’d like you to ask other Realtors just in case your interviewing other agents for the job. 99% of their responses will be excuses for why they can’t do what we are already doing in real estate!
- The National Association of Realtors quotes that at least 87% of Buyers begin their search for homes on the Internet. If your home can’t be found, it will never sell fast and for more of the asking price. My website: www.christophersmithrealtor.com is on page one of Google, with similar results on all of the other major search engines when one searches for “Cedar Rapids Real Estate.” GET FOUND, GET SOLD, AND BE ON YOUR WAY TO YOUR NEXT HOME! Please call us to get started! We take our job very seriously and want to help you move forward with your life!
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You Have a Problem! (i.e. Your House Not Selling) I Have a Solution! (Price, Condition, Demand, Marketing) JUST THE FACTS PLEASE · Since you have put your house on the market, it has not received a successful offer to purchase. · You expected your house to sell sooner than later, so that your family can move forward with your next home purchase. · You priced your home correctly, had your home in Move-In Condition, and believed that the marketing would bring an offer. · You know that the real estate market in this area has slowed down and will take its traditional “nose dive” into the holiday season. · NOW, MORE THAN EVER, YOU NEED FOR SOMEONE TO NOTICE YOUR BEAUTIFUL HOME, WALK THRU IT, AND WRITE AN OFFER! · 90% OF HOME BUYERS FIND THEIR HOME BY SEARCHING ON THE INTERNET. BY A 10-1 MARGIN, MOST BUYERS TYPE IN “NAME OF CITY” + “REAL ESTATE” TO FIND PROPERTIES. GO AHEAD, GO TO WWW.GOOGLE.COM AND TYPE IN CEDAR RAPIDS REAL ESTATE. MY WEBSITE IS FOUND ON PAGE ONE WHERE HUNDREDS OF POTENTIAL BUYERS VISIT EACH DAY! · IF YOUR HOME CANNOT BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET, THEN YOU ARE ELIMINATING 90% OF POTENTIAL BUYERS! I WANT TO HELP YOU SOLVE YOUR PROBLEM AND HERE IS HOW I CAN HELP YOU! 1. All homes in every city, in every state are SOLD by initial interest from a potential buyer searching on the Internet! If we place your home on my website’s homepage as a FEATURED LISTING, it will be exposed to hundreds of potential buyers each and every day resulting in a Faster Sale and For More of the Asking Price! 2. Obviously, we place your home on our Realtors MLS (Multiple Listing Service) where 900+ Realtors have access to your listing. Fact: 90% of ALL BUYERS work with a Realtor and so your beautiful home will finally be found by the perfect buyer. 3. TREGO REALTY is the #1 Internet marketer of Cedar Rapids Real Estate. 4. We offer flexible commission plans because we realize that not everyone can afford the top tier commission to list their home. 5. Buyers are hungry for PHOTOGRAPHS of your home! We shoot 36 or more photographs using a high resolution, wide angle lens camera that showcases your home like no other! 6. Buyers want a VIDEO TOUR of your home. Sorry, 99.5% of all Realtors in town do not shoot a video tour of your home because it costs too much and is too difficult. However, I just happen to be in that .5% bracket. I have been shooting professional real estate video for over a year now. Actually, we sold a house last month site unseen from a buyer across the country because they saw the video on my website! 7. Buyers still want a VIRTUAL TOUR so I stitch together all 36 photographs and create a beautiful virtual tour that is easily accessible from my website. 8. Sellers want to know that a Realtor is following through on their promises to market and sell my home to the most potential buyers possible. How does a Realtor do this! By giving the seller an exclusive “backdoor passcode” to his website so that the seller can actually see the marketing taking place. You will find out how many people have actually downloaded the “Listing Brochure.” You will find out where buyers are finding your listing, whether it’s on my site, the 50 other Realtor’s websites that I have a “handshake agreement” with, or the 30+ other affiliate real estate websites that I share your listing with!!! You see, exposure sells homes faster and for more of the asking price! 9. If a For Sale By Owner client is actually going to list their home with a Realtor, shouldn’t they expect the most VALUE for their hard earned dollars??? No other Realtor or Brokerage in town can offer as much VALUE. 10. Once again, you have a problem and I have your solution. In 2008, Real Estate Magazine (the #1 real estate magazine publication in the world) voted me as one of fifty up and coming real estate agents in the entire United States. No other Realtor in the state of Iowa received this honor. I say this not to brag about my accomplishments, but to let you know I take my job seriously. I PROMISE TO SELL YOUR HOUSE! |
FACT - The average For Sale By Owner sells his/her home for 93% of the original asking price. (Statistic provided by the NAR: National Association of Realtors).
- At Traditions Real Estate, we sell our clients homes for 98% of the asking price.
- The difference of 5% is where our commission plans start. Let us know how we can do all the work for you, and sell your house faster and for more of the asking price! Call us today and let's get started!
- We market every home we LIST to the EXTREME. We're the ONLY real estate brokerage in CEDAR RAPIDS that shoots our own professional real estate videos for each LISTING.
- Want to talk about exposure??? My website is the only real estate website on page one of Google, Yahoo, MSN, and BING for the #1 key search phrase for local real estate: "CEDAR RAPIDS REAL ESTATE." Hundreds of people view my website each day and YOUR LISTING IS A "FEATURED LISTING" ON MY SITE!!!
- I take 36 full color, high resolution, wide angle lens photographs of your house and place them on my website. I then take those photographs and stitch them together to create a FREE virtual tour as well!
- Your home is listed on 30 local, regional, and national real estate website portals across the country for maximum exposure.
- AS THE FALL MONTHS APPROACH US, IT BECOMES MUCH MORE DIFFICULT TO MARKET AND SELL HOMES AS A REALTOR. THE MARKET IS STILL IN DECLINE AND WE NEED ALL THE HELP WE CAN GET. PUT MY MARKETING PLAN TO WORK FOR YOU AND SELL YOUR HOUSE FASTER AND FOR MORE OF THE ASKING PRICE!
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I Would Like Assistance in Marketing My Home!
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Whether you have sold homes before or need assistance selling your current home, I would be honored to sit down with you and your family.
We'd love to hear from you!
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WE ARE NEGOTIATORS, EDUCATORS, AND ADVOCATES FOR YOU!
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TREGO REALTY & THE CHRISTOPHER SMITH TEAM ARE FOR SALE BY OWNER NEGOTIATORS - · DID YOU KNOW THAT NEGOTIATING A REAL ESTATE TRANSACTION CAN ADD THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO YOUR BOTTOM LINE AT CLOSING!
- · IF YOU’VE NEGOTIATED DOZENS OF DEALS FOR YOUR CLIENTS BEFORE AS I HAVE, THEN YOU HAVE SAVED THEM THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS BY PROTECTING YOUR CLIENTS BEST INTERESTS; THEIR MONEY!!!
- · IF YOU HAVEN’T NEGOTIATED REAL ESTATE DEALS BEFORE, YOU ARE POTENTIALLY GIVING AWAY YOUR EQUITY STAKE IN YOUR HOME.
- · PROTECTING YOUR EQUITY IS WHAT WE DO BEST, SO YOU CAN MOVE FORWARD WITH YOUR NEXT REAL ESTATE PURCHASE.
FOR SALE BY OWNER EDUCATORS - · BEING A FORMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PROFESSIONAL FOR 12 YEARS, I KNOW THE VALUE OF EDUCATING MY CLIENTS; HOME SELLERS.
- · IT’S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT MY SYSTEM CAN ACTUALLY SAVE YOU MONEY ON THE SALE OF YOUR HOUSE BY PAYING A 5% COMMISSION FEE.
- · ONCE FOR SALE BY OWNERS HEAR OUR LISTING PRESENTATION, OVER 90% OF THEM SIGN A LISTING AGREEMENT. THE OTHER 10% SIGN WITH A FRIEND OR SOMEONE THAT WAS REFERRED TO THEM AND END UP REGRETTING IT LATER BECAUSE THAT REALTOR HAD NO MARKETING SYSTEM WHATSOEVER!
- · OUR SYSTEM SELLS YOUR HOME FOR MORE OF THE ASKING PRICE, AND FASTER. WE ARE POTENTIALLY SAVING YOU THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS AND YOUR EQUITY AT CLOSING!
FOR SALE BY OWNER ADVOCATES - · NOTE WHEN TREGO REALTY & THE CHRISTOPHER SMITH TEAM FIRST STARTED SENDING YOU MATERIALS, IT WAS IN AN EFFORT TO GIVE YOU THE TOOLS TO SELL YOUR OWN HOME FIRST. REMEMBER THE “HOW TO SELL YOUR HOUSE FOR TOP DOLLAR – FAST! BOOKLET!
- · WE REALIZE THAT YOU WANT TO SAVE MONEY, SELL YOUR HOUSE QUICKLY AND FOR MORE OF THE ASKING PRICE. YOUR #1 GOAL IS OUR #1 GOAL!!! WE ARE ON THE SAME PAGE HERE.
- · ALMOST 75% OF OUR TOTAL BUSINESS SALES ARE FROM SELLING FOR SALE BY OWNER HOMES. WE MARKET DIRECTLY TO YOU BECAUSE WE DON’T WANT TO WASTE ANOTHER MOMENT OF NO BUYERS, NO OFFERS, AND NO CLOSING!
- · OUR SYSTEM OUT-MARKETS THE COMPETITORS 10-1. OUR FLEXIBLE COMMISSION PLANS REDUCES THE FINANCIAL BURDEN ON THE HOME OWNER SO YOU CAN LET US DO THE ENTIRE JOB OF MARKETING, BRINGING IN BUYERS, AND CONDUCTING A SUCCESSFUL SALE OF YOUR HOME!
FINALLY… WE DO REALIZE THAT SELLING YOUR HOUSE IS A FINANCIAL BURDEN, ESPECIALLY IN THIS ECONOMY. 99.9% OF ALL BUYERS WHO WRITE AN OFFER ON YOUR HOUSE WILL ASK YOU TO PAY FOR ONE THING; AND THAT IS A ONE YEAR HOME WARRANTY. THIS WARRANTY COSTS AROUND $400.00. TREGO REALTY WILL PICK UP THE TAB AS OUR WAY OF SAYING THANKS FOR TRUSTING US WITH THIS VERY IMPORTANT REAL ESTATE TRANSACTION. THIS OFFER WILL NOT LAST FOREVER. PLEASE CALL NOW AND GET STARTED!!! |
Percentage of For Sale By Owners in Cedar Rapids Who Eventually Use the Services of a Realtor?
(A) 47%
(B) 61%
(C) 78%
(D) 89%
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