SDR why is Cabal’s house losing 26%-56% anually? This is from your house losing 1% every 1-2 weeks?Based on yor recent posts, I thought you were rather bullish? I don’t believe he even mentioned his sub-market, just price range, maybe I missed it?Can I have that damn pebble now?

Cabal, With the sale you are disappointed with, did you pay 4% total or just to the listing agent?
There are a lot of ways to do things. I guess you don’t want to do a FSBO. You could try a modified FSBO. This might be something like getting an offer yourself and having an agent handle the acceptance,counter if any, and transaction. I did this for someone, as a complete rookie, and it worked out fine. The buyer paid their own agent a flat fee too. I caught the guy trying to put a commission in, to himself,from the seller though.I think I got paid $1500 on a 225k condo.The woman, my friend’s mother, put up a post-it in the some common area of the complex.You never know…

What do you think is a fair flat fee for an average listing effort of a 1.5M house? I basically think MLS plus price sells houses when going the realtor route. Many realtors disagree, of course.Yes, some competence is mandatory.

If you are going to offer a low commission or flat fee you might have to convince someone that you are very willing to gravitate toward the best reasonable offer instead of,for example, chasing the market down for a few years. If the equity situation is too tight to target a decent meeting of the minds on what the best reasonable offer is, that might be problematic. If you have room to be creative, just try some things.