Most real estate brokers offer a one-size-fits-all service to their customers. It is a free marketplace, so that is their right to do so. Some customers do need all those services provided to them, and those customers will normally pay a higher price for doing so. Our firm is different in that we offer you a choice. Of course we do offer the full service package just like the other firms do (and we do it quite well), but we also offer a menu of services for you to choose from.
Many people just want the exposure from MLS, Realtor.com, and similar websites. We can provide that for a reasonable flat fee. In fact our flat fee MLS listing service has helped hundreds of Florida homeowners save thousands upon thousands of dollars in commissions. We have been offering this service for over 10 years now, and some of our customers have used our services dozens of times now.
Menu-based services also known as a la carte services basically allows you to pick & choose the real estate services you need and thus save hundreds or even thousands of dollars from a transaction. Here are some of the services that we can provide to you for a set fee:
Companies like Home Depot and Lowes have been offering menu based services for years. They can provide you with the products and let you do it yourself; they can connect you with the labor part too; and they can even let you rent heavy duty tools and vehicles. Fast food restaurants do the same - do you want a combo meal, or do you want just a burger and fries, or even do you want to switch out the fries for a bowl of chili.
The main point is that with us YOU GET A CHOICE. With most other companies, it is take it or leave it. To find out more about what we can do for you, please visit our website www.SDRhouses.com or follow this link to go directly to our Frequently Asked Questions and our menu of services. We want to sell your house for the best price in the quickest time frame possible.
Call for a free consultation and property price analysis today. Sell your home the Sand Dollar way!
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(Copyright © 2009. Sand Dollar Realty Group, Inc. All rights reserved.)
Rob Arnold - Your full service and investor friendly Realtor ® in Orlando and Central Florida.
407-389-7318 / 1-877-389-7318 www.SDRhouses.com www.WeBuyHousesFlorida.com
We sell foreclosure, short sale, and bank owned REO house home throughout Central Florida, metro Orlando, and the Space Coast. We sell and list Central Florida real estate and Orlando real estate. Free list of foreclosure and short sale houses available. Our firm also provides flat fee MLS listings, For Sale By Owner, and menu-based servicesin most parts of Florida including Orlando, Altamonte Springs, Apopka, Kissimmee, Sanford, Lake Mary, and Deltona.
The latest inventory and sales numbers are out for Orange County and Seminole County, Florida. The Orlando Regional Realtor Association released their numbers on Tuesday and more positives are in the figures.
You click here to get a detailed report on these Orlando real estate statistics.
The inventory of properties for sale continue to decrease by another 600 homes. The number of properties under contract is way up to over double what it was 6 months ago - part of this is because of changes in the rules regarding short sales which forces Realtors to mark unapproved short sales as pending once a contract gets signed.
One remarkable statistic is that the number of properties that sold during July 2009 (2141 homes) is higher than the number of expireds + withdrawns for the month (2115 homes). This is the first time that has happened in nearly 4 years. A very good sign.
Also prices appear to have possibly bottomed out (at least temporarily). For the second month in a row now both the average and median price in metro Orlando has increased slightly. Check the link above for full details. Orlando Sentinel Article.
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| July 2009 | 5.34% | 17,231 | 4,158 | 3,696 | 7,713 | 787 | 849 | 1,266 | 2,141 | 103 |
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(Copyright © 2009. Sand Dollar Realty Group, Inc. All rights reserved.)
Rob Arnold - Your full service and investor friendly Realtor ® in Orlando and Central Florida.
407-389-7318 / 1-877-389-7318 www.SDRhouses.com www.WeBuyHousesFlorida.com
We sell foreclosure, short sale, and bank owned REO house home throughout Central Florida, metro Orlando, and the Space Coast. We sell and list Central Florida real estate and Orlando real estate. Free list of foreclosure and short sale houses available. Our firm also provides flat fee MLS listings, For Sale By Owner, and menu-based services in most parts of Florida including Orlando, Altamonte Springs, Apopka, Kissimmee, Sanford, Lake Mary, and Deltona.
Last night at the Lighthouse Landlords association we had the fantastic opportunity to have Jerrett Brock from the Florida Attorney General's office speak to us for 2 full hours and do a question & answer session. His presentation was loaded with lots of very pertinent information for Florida real estate investors, Realtors, and mortgage brokers.
The one thing he continued to hammer probably a dozen times was about upfront fees. Florida Statute 501.1377 and the new Florida Statute 494.00296 are very clear in his opinion. You cannot charge upfront fees for any transaction used to stop or avoid foreclosure. Some of the transactions he specifically mentioned that you cannot charge upfront fees for are loan modifications, short sales, forensic loan audits, and mortgage counseling.
Some of the other transactions their office is highly scrutinizing are sale/leaseback, false hardships on short sales, short sale double closings without full disclosure to the seller and their lender, and attorneys working with 3rd party foreclosure prevention companies.
It was an interesting session to say the least. You can read more information at their mortgage fraud website.
In this world of everybody coming up with the latest new techinque on stopping foreclosure, it is important to learn all you can about what is legal and what is not.
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(Copyright © 2009. Sand Dollar Realty Group, Inc. All rights reserved.)
Rob Arnold - Your full service and investor friendly Realtor ® in Orlando and Central Florida.
407-389-7318 / 1-877-389-7318 www.SDRhouses.com www.WeBuyHousesFlorida.com
We sell foreclosure, short sale, and bank owned REO house home throughout Central Florida, metro Orlando, and the Space Coast. We sell and list Central Florida real estate and Orlando real estate. Free list of foreclosure and short sale houses available. Our firm also provides flat fee MLS listings, For Sale By Owner, and menu-based services in most parts of Florida including Orlando, Altamonte Springs, Apopka, Kissimmee, Sanford, Lake Mary, and Deltona.
Learn to help people negotiate a mortgage modification! Or -- Help a consumer or even a Realtor negotiate a short sale! I must get 10 emails a day for these type of services. People pitching that they can teach you how to make big money negotiating mortgage modifications or short sales. Or people offering to negotiate the short sale for you and let you get back to selling properties. In fact a lot of Realtors and non-Realtors have jumped into these businesses in order to profit.
Obviously with any new craze comes scam artists as well. So the Florida legislature (in their wisdom - ha ha) passed a new law Senate Bill SB 2226. This law makes significant changes to Florida's mortgage brokerage laws - Chapter 494, Florida Statutes - effective January 1, 2010.
In particular the law requires "loan originators" to obtain a license. Prior to this law, there was a giant loophole that allowed salaried employees of a mortgage brokerage to simply be unlicensed loan originators and still get paid fees for bringing borrower and lender together. (This loan originator part of the law actually phases in on October 1, 2010.)
Additionally the new law specifically covers negotiation of existing loans as being part of the duties of a mortgage broker - thus you clearly will need a license to negotiate mortgage modifications in Florida.
Thirdly there are new disclosures required in order to do a loan modification - large type print, 3-day cooling off period, and a whole lot more.
Fortunately the Florida Office of Financial Regulation did issue an opinion that Florida Realtors and brokers are exempt from this law as long as they are only earning a commission for doing a short sale and are paid at closing.
You can read more of the details at these websites:
Office of Financial Regulation opinion regarding short sales
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(Copyright © 2009. Sand Dollar Realty Group, Inc. All rights reserved.)
Rob Arnold - Your full service and investor friendly Realtor ® in Orlando and Central Florida.
407-389-7318 / 1-877-389-7318 www.SDRhouses.com www.WeBuyHousesFlorida.com
We sell foreclosure, short sale, and bank owned REO house home throughout Central Florida, metro Orlando, and the Space Coast. We sell and list Central Florida real estate and Orlando real estate. Free list of foreclosure and short sale houses available. Our firm also provides flat fee MLS listings, For Sale By Owner, and menu-based services in most parts of Florida.
I see other firms that offer similar services for cheaper than you do. Why should I pay you more? What makes Sand Dollar Realty Group different from these other firms? Many things.
We have written an article on what things to look for in hiring a flat fee MLS broker. Below are many things to look for when choosing your broker.
(1) First our firm is locally owned and operated in Altamonte Springs, Florida (15 minutes north of Orlando). You are not dealing with some out-of-state far away company that you can only access by internet or 1800 number. You can schedule an appointment to come into our office or depending on location you can have us come to your home. We would be glad to meet with you in person or talk with you over the telephone and help you analyze your property, your asking price, and develop a marketing plan.
(2) If your property is not located in Central Florida, we can still help you properly price and market your property. It will be at a distance of course, but we have lived in Florida for 30+ years and we know the various regions of the state quite well.
(3) We have been in business since 1996 and are the largest and most experienced flat fee MLS brokerage in Central Florida. We know what we are doing and will not leave you hanging out there all alone. Many companies that offer flat fee services have not been in business very long and are greatly lacking in experience. And experience counts during a buyer's market.
(4) Many of the super cheapo priced firms provide poor customer service and don't return phone calls or emails promptly. Some firms simply want to list your home online in order to keep the buyer leads for themselves. You will find that we are different. We will email or call you with all buyer leads. If we are not right there to answer the office phone, we will return your call within a reasonably short period of time. In fact broker Rob Arnold's cell phone number is 407-375-4567, if you ever need to speak with him at anytime day or night. A little bit of extra money is a small price to pay to deal with experienced professionals.
(5) We have full-time sales associates that are working to find a buyer for your property and earn the buyer-side commission.
(6) We allow you to upgrade your listing. We can provide you additional services all the way up to a full-service listing for a reasonable additional fee.
(7) We have many great affiliations with local experts, including an affiliation with a local title company, and contacts with many real estate vendors (inspectors, appraisers, insurance, home warranty, mortgage brokers, mortgage lenders and banks, etc.) to help make your transition from listing to closing that much easier.
We also offer a full-service listing service similar to those offered by most other real estate brokerages. But unlike those other brokerages our agents have the flexibility to negotiate commission rates to help save you money.
Also we can offer a menu-based pricing system (a la carte services), allowing you to only pay for those services that you actually need us to perform. Including lockbox rental, online virtual/video tours, contract preparation and review, offer negotiation, closing coordination and attendance, etc. Click here for more information about our full-service listings. Or click for more information about menu-based services that we offer.
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(Copyright © 2009. Sand Dollar Realty Group, Inc. All rights reserved.)
Rob Arnold - Your full service and investor friendly Realtor ® in Orlando and Central Florida.
407-389-7318 / 1-877-389-7318 www.SDRhouses.com www.WeBuyHousesFlorida.com
We sell foreclosure, short sale, and bank owned REO house home throughout Central Florida, metro Orlando, and the Space Coast. We sell and list Central Florida real estate and Orlando real estate. Free list of foreclosure and short sale houses available. Our firm also provides flat fee MLS listings, For Sale By Owner, and menu-based services in most parts of Florida.
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