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by a2tech 978 days ago
The problem is that its hard to get your house listed on the MLS if you're not using a realtor (you need to use a digital realtor that lists on your behalf), and many realtors won't even show those houses to their customers if they recognize that its being listed by one of those digital realtors.

Realtors ARE a good idea. They should be helping you navigate a process that most people will only do once or twice in their life and is very complicated and full of pitfalls. However they've used their industry lobbying to carve out a very comfortable position and then stopped doing the thing everyone wanted them to do.
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ssimpson 978 days ago
MLS also lists the rates the house is paying out. ie, the usual rate for selling a house is 6% and 1/2 goes to the selling agent and 1/2 goes to the buying agent. this is outside any kind of other fees you will pay such as closing costs, etc. If you list lower than like 5% on those rates or decide you don't want to pay the buying agent as much, they just wont show your house, even if its perfect for the client.
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FrustratedMonky 978 days ago
Probably need to attack the services then.

MLS is a service company, and Realtors are a trademark group.

Perhaps they have what some might call monopoly on the market.

Technically, you can list your property without MLS or without using a trademarked 'Realtor'. There are other agents that aren't 'Realtor'.

It's like complaining that Google isn't listing your ads for free.

Just like Google owns search, so you have to pay them to get listed.

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