Don’t List Your Home Without This!

Montgomery County Real Estate Podcast with Diane Cardano

By signing an MLS Waiver form, you give your Realtor the chance to market your home before it gets listed and give yourself a chance to properly prepare your home for the market. If you are ready to put your home on the market, do not sign a listing contract with a Realtor without also signing an MLS Waiver form. Doing this will help your home sale tremendously, and there are a couple reasons why. First, it allows your Realtor to market your home before it hits the market. If this waiver is signed, that means your home does not have to go into the MLS right away. If you sign a listing contract without this waiver, your home is automatically listed in three days. I can tell you that 100% of the seller clients I work with never have homes that are ready to go onto the market in three days. This form also gives you the freedom to prepare your home for the market without worrying about it going on the market right away. I have a website for “coming soon” listings called www.comingsoonlistings.com that is specifically designed for this situation and notifies the public of homes that will be listed in the near future. This creates demand and excitement among your target market, and that’s exactly what you need when starting the listing process. “When you sign a listing contract, make sure the MLS Waiver form gets signed along with it.” This month, I have taken pictures of seven different houses so far because they looked so beautiful on the outside. Each of these homes’ sellers signed the MLS Waiver, so now I can start marketing their homes online and building anticipation among buyers. Most buyers start their home search six months to a year before actually buying because they have a home they need to sell first, and they are not going to put their current home on the market unless they know there is another home out there that they like that is coming onto the market soon. So again, when you sign a listing contract, always make sure you also sign the MLS Waiver form. In other news, we have another home selling seminar coming up on June 12 that you will not want to miss. If you attend, you will learn more about our “coming soon” listing program and earn a free professional photo shoot for your home. As always, you can find out more at www.homesharkseminar.com. If you have any other questions about today’s topic or you are thinking of buying or selling a home soon, give me a call or send me an email anytime. I would love to speak with you.