SLO County Homes – Flat-fee buyer and listing services
Imagine discovering that from the $25,000 commission you paid on a $1 million home (2.5%), $10,000 went to Zillow, $5,400 to the brokerage, and $1,200 to a corporation on the East Coast as a franchise fee. This leaves just $8,300 for the agent who did all the work. This breakdown, known as commission splits, is often not disclosed to buyers and sellers. Many would likely feel misled by such a large financial transaction that lacks transparency regarding where their money is going.
We tackle this issue head-on by eliminating unnecessary fees and keeping our overhead low. We pass the savings directly to our clients through our $9,900 listing and buyer services.
We provide FULL SERVICE at a fair price. The quality of service should not depend on how high an agent’s commission is. You shouldn’t have to pay a premium to receive exceptional service. Our offerings are as good, if not better, than those of high-priced brokerages. While some percentage-based agents might dismiss our flat-fee model with comments like “you get what you pay for,” the real question is, “What additional services am I getting for the 2-8 times the price charged by Keith Byrd?” The truth is, agents provide the same core service regardless of the home’s price, which is why a percentage-based pricing model doesn’t truly benefit buyers or sellers.
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SLO County Homes provides a home search menu in the header on the top of every page. These are predefined searches to give you one-click results. We also developed an easy-to-use custom search form (click Custom Search in the menu).
What’s unique about our home search is that we put the search criteria in the URL. The benefit for you is that you can bookmark any search you perform making it easy to quickly search using the latest MLS listing data.
You can sign up for an account and then define a search (or searches) that you want email notifications when a listing meets your search criteria. The most popular notification is for new listings. The MLS data on my search is updated hourly.
We also offer a search that has these additional benefits:
– you can search for Coming Soon listings (Zillow, Realtor.com, etc. do not have MLS Coming Soon listings.)
– the MLS data is real-time. If you have a new listing notification set up, you’ll get an email within minutes of it being entered into the MLS. You’ll know about a new listing before agents do (and other buyers you’re competing with).
I have to set up access to the system and the search criteria(s) for you. Send me email with your search criteria! (byrd805@gmail.com) For new listing searches, I’d recommend we include both Active and Coming Soon listings.