Same to you Tonya and good luck with your sale.

Thank you to all of you for taking the time to respond to my question. I wish you all a great 2008 :-)

Tonya, it is always tough with the National Listing sites. For instance we have homes that are mailing address Ypsilanti, MI, schools Ann Arbor and Pittsfield Township for taxes. It is a mess and since every MLS has certain requirements you follow the rules for that MLS.
If you have a house in Ann Arbor mailing but Pittsfield Township for taxes it has to go in Pittsfield Township. Now who has heard of Pittsfield Township in cyber space. So you are not the only one to experience this dilema.
You listed your home at the absolute slowest time of the year, between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Even in a seller market things slow down.
So I would encourage you to wait until February to see if you have any showings, if not you will need to reduce again.
Don't get discouraged, most homes sell through Realtors in your MLS area and they are seeing it in the correct area.

Your realtor probably has your listing on Realtor.com and can see how many hits you've had on that site as well. Realtor.com gets many visitors so it's good information to have if your realtor subscribes to this service. But Gary's very correct when he says this time of year is usually a slow time of year for real estate. You will get the occassional lookers who are in town because of the holidays, but that's about it.

Tonya, Each Multiple Listing Service has specific rules about what information must be included by the Realtor. The Realtor and/or company is fined if the information is not accurate. There are some errors and overlaps that are not correct and yours is a good example. West Bloomfield, Fenton, and Howell areas have the same problem. For the MLS I belong to, Realcomp, agents enter the tax ID number and the remainder of the information is automatically populated. I'm not sure about your area.

I would verify with your agent that they have submitted your information to the Flint Area Assoc of Realtors (FAAR) and to Realcomp which allows data sharing. This will give your home two MLS numbers and better exposure to area Realtors.

As to no visitors, sit back and think about it for a minute. What do you do in November, December, and January? When do most people have time to look for homes?

If you are still concerned over having no visitors, ask your Realtor to bring over ALL the information about their marketing efforts and any homes that sold since the date you placed your home on the market. Each source should have records of the number of times your home was viewed online. Some will also include the number of times your home was emailed by another Realtor to their clients. Most MLS's update their listing numbers each year. Ask your Realtor if this is the case in your area. You may want to withdraw your home and relist with a new number the first quarter of 2008.

My suggestion would be to take the township out of your mls data and simply mention it in the public remarks instead. That way buyers will still be able to see that you are located in a township, but it won't goof up their searches. Of course, no answer is going to be perfect, though, because if you change the mls data you will lose the buyers who are searching by township criteria. My experience, though, is most buyers search by school district (specifically high school or elementary school) and/or city/mls area. Hope this helps.