If your home is listed on the MLS you must compensate the agent who brings you a buyer. This commission usually ranges from 2.5-3% of the sales price of your home.
If you sell your home to an unrepresented buyer, you will not pay any commissions under our flat fee programs. We offer assistance with negotiations, contract review, holding escrow monies and all other aspects of the sale for a 1% commission.
You will save thousands! Let's assume that your home is worth $250,000. If you pay 3% to the Realtor who brings you a buyer and $599 to ACUMEN, you will pay $8,099 in total commissions. This represents a saving of $6,901 versus using a traditional real estate broker. With us acting in exactly the same capacity as your full service broker, you will save $4,401.
Your listing will appear as any other on the MLS. Agents are interested in finding their clients the most suitable homes while being fairly compensated for their efforts. As long as the commission that you are offering is similar to what’s being offered to sell comparable homes, your home will be shown! We also offer the option of an appointment service to coordinate showings of your home with agents. When you combine this with ability to show your home via lockbox access, there’s really no difference at all.
You save a considerable amount of money listing with us.
You still retain the right to sell your home yourself and pay no buyer commissions.
We do not advertise in expensive magazines or other print media. Instead, we use our resources to work on the quality of your homes online presence.
We do not hold open houses. More often than not open houses are an ineffective way of marketing your home to qualified buyers. That said, if you’d like to hold your own open house we will gladly promote it on the MLS and realtor.com
Your listing will be featured on realtor.com, google maps, trulia, Zillow, homes.com, move.com, craigslist and many other prominent real estate websites.
When we represent you as your buyer’s agent, we will be paid a commission from the seller. As long as it’s ok with your lender, we’ll give you 1/3rd of the total sales price of the property back.
The 1% rebate will be shown on the HUD-1 settlement statement at closing. It is entirely up to you whether you take the money in the form of a check outside of closing, or use it to pay closing costs.