WHAT YOU'LL SAVE
The ultimate goal of FSBO Sherpa is to help our homeowner clients secure a viable, unrepresented buyer (someone working WITHOUT a buyers agent) and pay absolutely ZERO in real estate commissions. ZILCH. NADA. NOTHING.
However, some homeowners choose to offer a commission to buyers agents who bring a buyer that eventually purchases their home. Most buyers (86% according to the National Association of Realtors) purchase their home through a real estate agent. The choice to offer buyers agents commission is entirely up to the homeowner. In order to list your home on the MLS, you must provide some sort of compensation to buyers agents. We provide methods and techniques to avoid paying buyers agents commissions, but ultimately the choice is the homeowners.
Let's look at an example:
On a $400,000 sale, let's assume a seller would typically be charged a 5% fee to list their home with an agent. That equals $20,000 that will come directly out of the seller's proceeds at closing and be used to pay the real estate commission.
If this same seller sold their home themselves (with help from FSBO Sherpa) to a buyer unrepresented by a buyers agent, they would only pay $2,500 (the FSBO Sherpa fee for homes under 2,800 SF). In this case, the homeowner saved $17,500 ($20,000 - $2,500 = $17,500).
For example, if that same seller chooses to pay a buyers' agent a 2% commission, they would pay $2,500 to FSBO Sherpa and $8,000 to the buyers' agent (2% of $400,000). This represents a savings of $9,500 over the traditional 5% listing fee.
What would you do with $9,500 extra at closing? Or $17,500 extra at closing???
You'll always save the listing portion of the commission working with FSBO Sherpa. Our goal is to help you find a buyer in a way that avoids you paying a buyers agent commission as well.
The owner of our company has sold two homes by himself and saved over $30,000 in the process by not paying ANY real estate commission. That is our goal for you!
However, some homeowners choose to offer a commission to buyers agents who bring a buyer that eventually purchases their home. Most buyers (86% according to the National Association of Realtors) purchase their home through a real estate agent. The choice to offer buyers agents commission is entirely up to the homeowner. In order to list your home on the MLS, you must provide some sort of compensation to buyers agents. We provide methods and techniques to avoid paying buyers agents commissions, but ultimately the choice is the homeowners.
Let's look at an example:
On a $400,000 sale, let's assume a seller would typically be charged a 5% fee to list their home with an agent. That equals $20,000 that will come directly out of the seller's proceeds at closing and be used to pay the real estate commission.
If this same seller sold their home themselves (with help from FSBO Sherpa) to a buyer unrepresented by a buyers agent, they would only pay $2,500 (the FSBO Sherpa fee for homes under 2,800 SF). In this case, the homeowner saved $17,500 ($20,000 - $2,500 = $17,500).
For example, if that same seller chooses to pay a buyers' agent a 2% commission, they would pay $2,500 to FSBO Sherpa and $8,000 to the buyers' agent (2% of $400,000). This represents a savings of $9,500 over the traditional 5% listing fee.
What would you do with $9,500 extra at closing? Or $17,500 extra at closing???
You'll always save the listing portion of the commission working with FSBO Sherpa. Our goal is to help you find a buyer in a way that avoids you paying a buyers agent commission as well.
The owner of our company has sold two homes by himself and saved over $30,000 in the process by not paying ANY real estate commission. That is our goal for you!