Flat Fee MLS Listing Services • Pick a Plan to Suit Your Needs
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Why Pay 6% to Sell Your Home? Success, honesty, truthfulness, and excellent service have resulted in hundreds of happy clients. To date, our clients have realized a savings of over $6,900,000 in fees compared to 6% agents. We have the service you need to get your home sold. All DFWCityhomes MLS Listing Services include Full Representation. We never share your confidential information with another party without your express permission and you never have to talk to a Buyer or Buyer’s Agent unless you want to.
For most service levels, we meet you at your home to discuss your needs
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Our MLS Services are designed to help you based on your needs, not ours. We're here to make it work and we stay with you all the way through closing. We are personally invested to get your house sold and get you into your new home. We are experienced professionals and we're flexible and willing to help.
Offered in these MLS Associations
We cover all major market areas in Texas!
Fee paid when service is ordered
Our Setup Fee helps us recover those expenses invested in setting up your listing.
Fee Paid to Us at Closing
Paid at closing only if it closes
These fees are assessed and only paid at closing. If it doesn't close, no fee is paid.
Paid out of sale proceeds by title company
Shown on your closing statement to approve beforehand.
Typical Buyer Agent Fee (BAC)
Amounts are not regulated
The amount of the commission you agree to pay the buyers agent. A typical fee in Texas is 2-3%.
Can be any amount you are willing to pay
Can be any percentage or fixed amount greater than zero.
Maximum length of the active listing
Length of time of the service to get the property sold.
All fees are clearly described in your listing agreement
All fees are disclosed in your listing agreement including some fees for special situations.
Unlimited changes at no additonal cost
We don't charge when you make a change. Make changes anytime.
You may cancel at Any Time
Our listing agreements allow you to cancel at anytime without penalty.
You cannot cancel if you are in a contract with a buyer
This is the one exception.
Multiple Listing Service (MLS)
We offer your home in your MLS to other real estate brokers
An MLS is operated by a local real estate association connect buyers and sellers.
Incentivizes agents to bring you a buyer
The Buyer Agent Commission (BAC) incentivizes agents to find you a buyer.
We require a face-to-face consultation meeting with all of our clients
Gives us the opportunity to see your property, meet in person, provide advice first hand.
Approximately 1-2 hours depending on experience level
Time well spent going through documents, explaining strategies and how we work together to sell your home.
We become a team with the goal of a successful, stress free transaction getting you the best possible deal.
Online Zoom consultation for virtual clients
Online meeting hosted to accomplish the same goals.
Comparative Market Analysis (CMA)
Help buyers and sellers negotiate by comparing to sold homes in the same neighborhood.
You can request one for free on our website.
We help you with your pricing strategy
Aids you in your pricing strategy to establish your starting price.
We provide professional photos for your listing
Besides price and location, great pictures are the most important marketing component in a home sale.
You provide the photos for the Virtual Listing Service
For Virtual clients, you provide the photos and we post them with your listing.
Automated Appointment Service
Includes ShowingTime or Local 3rd party showing service
An automated appointment service for agents to request showings. Only agents can schedule a showing with our showing services.
Assist you in authorizing and tracking showings
Allows you to respond by text, email, or phone to approve showing requests and receive feedback from agents.
The general public requests showings directly from DFWCityhomes
The general public and can request a showing at public websites or our website. Forwarded to you or acted on based on the service level purchased.
We produce a walk through virtual video tour
We produce a Professional walk-through video tour to post with your listing.
Its posted in MLS and shown with your listing
Virtual clients can provide for us to post.
Its shown on all internet sites
Most MLS allow us to post a video that achieves wide distribution. See some samples in our blog.
Virtual clients can provide for us to post.
Virtual clients can optionally provide a video to post.
At our initial consultation we put out a yard sign to advertise your listing
We provide a professional yard sign to so buyers realize you have professional representation.
We ship it to our virtual listing clients
For our virtual clients, we ship a sign for your yard.
Professional Printed Flyer and Display Box
We stock printed flyers in your home for Full and Luxury service clients
We produce a professional looking flyer and place it in a display box in your home.
We provide a flyer in PDF format for you to print for these service levels
We send it to you to print and place in your home.
We provide an electronic Supra keybox
Our Supra Keybox has tracking and high security features. Codes can't be passed to buyers to enter on their own.
You provide a lock box for the Virtual Flat Fee Service
You provide a lockbox and code for the showing service.
Your property is advertised everywhere on the internet
MLS listings are widely advertised on the Internet in agent sites and sites such as Zillow, realtor.com, Redfin, etc.
All MLS members are treated equally and listings are fully exposed to the housing market place
Try this - pick a listing and google the address. These are the places yours will show up.
Your property is advertised on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Pinterest, Linkedin, and more
Follow "Why go with us" link to "Social Networks" to see our social media posts.
We Talk to Agents and Buyers For You
You do not have to speak to an agent or buyer unless you want to
We represent you in your transaction and speak to buyer agents on your behalf with your guidance and approval
Interactive Voice Response System
When buyers call the number on our sign they get a link to your listing and can hear an audio tour
Our professional yard sign displays a dedicated number. When called it sends a text with a link to your listing and a link to request a showing.
They can leave a message for us to process
Messages are monitored and calls are returned as requested.
Lets agents and buyers of agents know your listing is soon to be on the market
Coming Soon is a new listing status in MLS. It’s intention is to notify agents of homes coming on the market.
Coming Soon is a new listing status in MLS. It’s intention is to notify agents of homes coming on the market.
For Full and Luxury Service clients we advertise and host open house meets.
You have the option to host your own open house and we advertise it for you
We advertize it for you and it shows the day and time in MLS and all public sites inviting guests to come see your home.
Suggested terms and procedures
We provide "Offer Suggestions" to Buyer Agents to encourage a successful transaction with your best interest in mind.
Assists buyers to facilitate a good contract and smooth transaction
Adherence to the Offer Suggestions is not required and the suggestions solely intend to help expedite the transaction.
Other Agents Show to Buyers
Agents contact ShowingTime or other local service to show your property
Any listing service is targeting agents with ready to buy clients to purchase your home. Agents are our primary marketing target.
We represent your best interest at all times
We help you from initial planning through closing. Includes answering general questions from you, agents, buyers, expert negotiations on your behalf, advice and opinion, research, strategy development, all to help get you the best possible deal.
If the buyer does not have an agent you do not pay a buyer agent commission
In an Exclusive Agency Listing Agreement, if the buyer does not have an agent no buyer agent commission is paid.
If needed, we write the contract for a non-represented buyer for an additional fee
We pass all buyer leads to you to show the property. If it turns into a transaction you do not pay a buyer agent commission.
When we show, we earn the buyer agent commission
Our higher level services incentivize us to find a buyer along with other buyer agents.
When you show, no buyer agent fee is paid if the buyer does not have an agent
You show your home to non-represented buyers and avoid paying the buyer agent fee
No Intermediary nor Sub-Agent Representation
We solely represent you the seller at all service levels
We don’t represent the Buyer and yourself in your transaction. We don’t compete with your neighborhood agents to procure the buyer.
We facilitate the transaction if the buyer agrees to represent themself
We only represent you in the transaction keeping your best interest front and center.
Sales Contract Review and Negotiation
We review contracts with you
Agents are instructed to send us offers in PDF format via email and we forward those offers to you.
We make sure you understand your duties, terms, and obligations
We review offers with you paragraph by paragraph to make sure you understand your terms, duties, obligations, and closing costs.
We then deliver your counter response to the agent
From that, we advise you on strategy, obtain your counter response and deliver it back to the agent on your behalf.
Contracts and Forms are the same for all brokers
Texas real estate license holders are required by law to use Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC) contract forms.
Listing Agreements and Buyer Representation Agreement are not the same
TREC does not regulate listing or buyer representation agreements.
We provide the DocuSign electronic signature system for signing contracts and documents
DocuSign is the most highly recommended vendor endorsed by the Texas Association of Realtors.
We provide a password protected online transaction room
We invite you to establish password access to our Transaction Room to approve your draft listing, pictures, showing instructions, and walk through video.
You review and approve your pictures, listing, video, showing instructions
After any final changes and you have approved your listing goes live in MLS.
Within your transaction room, we track marketing activities and transaction progress to completion.
You work directly with the title company to provide wire instructions, closing location, and timing.
The title company manages the closing process to make the transfer is legitimate. Working with them directly expedites the transaction.
Coordinate Change of Possession
We help getting keys to buyers
We help coordinate title closing activities, final walk through, exchange of keys, remotes, etc.
We pick up the sign and lockbox
Assist with follow up requests that sometimes go past your closing
We don't walk away after the transaction is completed. Frequently questions arise after closing.
We attend your closing upon request
Rarely are we needed at closing. You receive a preliminary closing statement beforehand to approve.
We do not attend your closing
These days, closing statements are reviewed and approved beforehand. No need to attend closings.
We Help You Until Your Home is Sold
We help from beginning to end
Our goal is to provide a great experience! Your success is our success. We are here to help when you need us.
You are assigned a single contact person to you for all activities
You will have one America based assigned point of contact. You won’t be kicked around in a team nor mysterious help desk respondents.
Brokers have substantial additional training and licensing
Visit the Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC) and select License Holder Search to check the status of any licensee in the State of Texas.
Tod Franklin holds Broker License #540728.
Can hire other real estate agents to work for them
DFWCityhomes LLC holds License #581738 doing business as DFWCityhomes and USCityhomes. Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC)
We are happy to provide opinions based on our industry experience and expertise
We offer our input with your needs in mind to attain the best possible outcome. If you have a question and need help, don’t hesitate to ask.
We gear our services to help you learn and understand to make informed decisions
We are open to discuss any situations that arise. We want to empower you through teaching moments to succeed with confidence.
Phone, Email, Text Communications
We utilize phone, email, and text
Feel free to email, text, or call us anytime. See our Communications Policy Terms and Conditions.
This is an email driven business
This is an Email heavy business. Be prepared for that. There might be 200-300 emails before all is said and done.
Email is preferred for better record keeping
With email, we can better manage responses, use templates, and meet state record keeping compliance requirements.
We try to accommodate client preferrences when we can
We realize most clients have their own preferred method of communications and we try to accommodate those when we can.
DFWCityhomes services are available anywhere in Texas.
