About Flat Fee MLS

The Multiple Listing Service (MLS) is a centralized database organized by the National Association of Realtors that contains listings of all of the real estate for sale in the area, whether it is homes, commercial property, or land. The Central Wisconsin MLS contains all of the homes listed for sale by Realtors® in the majority of municipalities in Marathon, Portage, and Wood Counties.

 

The listings on the MLS are not only available to Realtors®, prospective home buyers are also able to view homes on the MLS through websites such as Realtor.com and many area real estate companies' websites. The MLS is the primary tool that Realtors® utilize to market their home listings to other Realtors® and prospective buyers.

 

How Does Flat Fee MLS Work?
       

 

Flat Fee MLS is a new way for a home seller to market their home just as they would by hiring the services of a Realtor® and real estate company. FSBOWausau.com is able to provide the home seller access to the MLS, by charging a flat fee instead of a commission. A seller who uses Flat Fee MLS is responsible for showing the home, negotiating the sale price, and attending the closing. And who better to sell and market a home than the motivated person who has owned it and lived in it? The advantage to the seller is that they are able to pay a substantially discounted price for the ability to market their home just as if they had hired the services of a traditional real estate company. Flat Fee MLS is the wave of the future of real estate sales, and future is brought to you locally by FSBOWausau.com!

 

FSBOWausau.com provides the seller with the same powerful tools used by traditional Realtors® to sell homes, but at a franction fo the cost. There are typically two ways a seller will find a buyer for their house. The first way is that a Realtor® who has a client that is looking to buy a home will contact you arrange a time to look at the house and if the buyer is interested they will negotiate a purchase price of the home. In the traditional real estate industry a Realtor® that helps a buyer find a home collects a commission from the home seller. The amount of the commission collected by the Realtor® representing the buyer is determined by you the seller, and is typically 2-3% of the sales price (3% is typical). It is also typical in the real estate industry for the seller to have to pay their Realtor® a commission (3% is typical) for listing the house on the MLS. However, with FSBOWausau.com's Flat Fee MLS, you save 3% of the sales price that you would've had to pay to a typical real estate company to list your home on the MLS! The second way a seller typically finds a buyer for their home, is that a buyer searching for property on their own finds your home by searching at FSBOWausau.com, Realtor.com, or through any local real estate company's website - because your home is listed on the MLS. When a buyer contacts you directly without the use of a buyer's agent Realtor®, you don't have to pay a commission of 3% to the buyer's Realtor®, thus saving you thousands of dollars!

 

If you have any questions about our Flat Fee MLS services please feel free to contact either Andrew , John , or call (715) 297-8155.

 
  • "We just sold our house in less than three weeks using FSBOWausau through agent Andrew Brainard. The process was straightforward, as described. We just paid the minimal up front listing fee, Andrew came to our house as scheduled to take pictures, and the listing promptly appeared on Realtor.com. In this day and age, many buyers are well informed via the internet. If you can just get yourself onto the most frequented online database, Realtor.com, you have a good chance of being exposed to buyers looking in your area. The rest is up to you and the presentation of your house. The best part is you save that large commission fee! I recommend FSBOWausau. This is our fourth house we've sold FSBO!! Good luck!"
    -Mike and Tammy Minehart
  • "With FSBO Wausau my home sold for the price I wanted to get within the first month of having it listed, saving me thousands in realtor fees."
    -Jason Schiller
  • "We originally tried selling our house on our own because we didn't want to pay 7% commission to an agent. We felt we could do a better job showing the house and pointing out it's assets than an agent. But we knew we had a big handicap since it wasn't on the MLS. We finally went with an agent, whom we were very dissatisfied with and who almost never showed the house. Then we found FSBOWausau. It was exactly what we wanted. A small fee and the house was on the MLS. We were happy to handle the rest in order to save a ton of money. Our house just sold, everything went smoothly, and we highly recommend Andrew Brainard and FSBOWausau."
    -John Kilgust