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A seller can post a listing on Zillow/trulia for free and get massive exposure. What is the advantage here? Is this somehow complementary to those marketing e

A seller can post a listing on Zillow/trulia for free and get massive exposure. What is the advantage here? Is this somehow complementary to those marketing efforts?

gunapologist99 3y ago
Posting a listing of a home for sale is entirely different from actually selling the home. Ironically, most states have standardized real estate forms, so really it's just Realtors® that are clogging up the works and demanding 6% commissions. (Actually, it's just NAR; most realtor agencies get 3%, for working their half of the sale, and then the actual realtor only gets half of that, or 1.5%. All of the rest goes to the middlemen, because historically buying and selling homes was highly labor intensive.)
- montgomster 3y ago
  Hello,gunapologist99. PropBox fixes that problem. Zero commissions,Really. PropBox is a tech advertising company where sellers buy an advertisement for a flat fee of $995 upfront + a home inspection and a professional photographer with a money back guarantee. Your observations are accurate, gunapologist99, you even got the Capital R and the ® correct. Thank you for your comments. Richard
montgomster 3y ago
Great question, Multiplayer. There is a huge difference. I believe the largest difference is that the companies you mentioned client's are real estate agents. PropBox clients are the customer. We work for the buyer and the seller. But there are many more differences, those companies have no control over what the agents do with those leads. PropBox builds many features into the platform that is very helpful for both customers. PropBox takes all the pain points and friction out of the process. I believe our marketing is faster, transparent, simple, safer, and a lot cheaper. We are a new alternative the FSBO and the agent, and we are hoping a lot of people will try it, and if they do they will never go back. It is a good question, and I appreciate you for asking it. Richard

A seller can post a listing on Zillow/trulia for free and get massive exposure. What is the advantage here? Is this somehow complementary to those marketing efforts?

gunapologist99 3y ago

Posting a listing of a home for sale is entirely different from actually selling the home. Ironically, most states have standardized real estate forms, so really it's just Realtors® that are clogging up the works and demanding 6% commissions. (Actually, it's just NAR; most realtor agencies get 3%, for working their half of the sale, and then the actual realtor only gets half of that, or 1.5%. All of the rest goes to the middlemen, because historically buying and selling homes was highly labor intensive.)

montgomster 3y ago
Hello,gunapologist99. PropBox fixes that problem. Zero commissions,Really. PropBox is a tech advertising company where sellers buy an advertisement for a flat fee of $995 upfront + a home inspection and a professional photographer with a money back guarantee. Your observations are accurate, gunapologist99, you even got the Capital R and the ® correct. Thank you for your comments. Richard

montgomster 3y ago

Great question, Multiplayer. There is a huge difference. I believe the largest difference is that the companies you mentioned client's are real estate agents. PropBox clients are the customer. We work for the buyer and the seller. But there are many more differences, those companies have no control over what the agents do with those leads. PropBox builds many features into the platform that is very helpful for both customers. PropBox takes all the pain points and friction out of the process. I believe our marketing is faster, transparent, simple, safer, and a lot cheaper. We are a new alternative the FSBO and the agent, and we are hoping a lot of people will try it, and if they do they will never go back. It is a good question, and I appreciate you for asking it. Richard