Scenario: As a seller, you list your $ 310,000 home and in 60 days you contract on your home at $300,000.

Choice: You can pay either 6% or 5% with many Real Estate Firms or 3.95% with Dane Warren Real Estate. Our listing program offers the buyer agent 3.0% in the MLS system and .95% is paid to DWRE, saving you 2.05% in commission fees. A 6% commission firm would cost you a $6,000 gross loss to your profit on the selling side at a $300,000 purchase price.

Question: Why do so many sellers still pay the 6% or 5% knowing that the cost paid to their listing company will be so high?
Answer: Fear, fueled by agents attempting to sell you on why you should pay 6%.

Question: "What am I giving up going with 3.95%  if I do not pay the 6%?"
Answer: I tell my clients you are giving up my experience as a broker and paying more for less in most cases. Depending on the lack of experience your listing agent may be bringing to the table. $6,000 may just be the beginning of a much larger loss to your equity savings.

Once you have closed on your current home, you now plan to buy a $400,000 home. If you decide to use DWRE as your buyer agent, the Closing Attorney will be instructed to credit $4,000 to you on the closing statement as a realtor rebate credit. You do not have to sell a home with us first to enroll in our buyer rebate program.

When you use this firm as you're buying and selling company in the two examples given, $6,000 remains in your savings account when you sold your home and DWRE added another $4,000 to your savings account when you made your purchase. The total savings/credit you received using our firm would be $10,000. This is not factoring the savings my years of experience has saved you working on your behalf throughout offer to purchases, repairs, appraisals and the closing process.