Jonas Davenport

Don't rule out Peachtree City. Designated as a Top Ten Place to Live by Money Magazine in '05. It's about 30 minutes south of the ATL airport. Several web links contained in my web reference will enlighten you about Peachtree City and its great lifestyle. - Sun Feb 24 2008, 07:49

so you're saying that websites of aggregators, which had my expired listing, continued to feed my expired listing to Trulia?....and the local MLSs don't provide a current feed to Trulia, within a month of the listing, that would overide or duplicate the expired listing?....and vFlyer.com is able to successfully upload my flyer feed to several major players, including Google base, but not to Trulia as they advertised? Something's amiss.

And I was wrong about my new listing being up here...my new, 34 day old, FMLS 3631094 listing is not on Trulia yet. I'm feeling gypped, but thankful for the other web venues I'm showing up at. - Thu Feb 14 2008, 19:30

Keith, previous listin expired 12/18...it was still showing in Trulia up until last 5-7 days. I used vFlyer.com to up-post ad to numerous real estate ad sites. My flyer made it to all, Google base, for one...except not up to Trulia. My house was re-listed 1/10 and the agency is very internet active/savvy and they encouraged me get on as many ad sites as possible, in addition to ones they post to. So..what I'm seeing on Trulia now doesn't even have the pic, or agency, or much in the way of details.

I originally found Trulia, which appears to be a great site, when I googled my address. It was the only site that showed up in that search. - Thu Feb 14 2008, 06:58

If you're close to retirement, check out Peachtree City...it's south of metro...about a 30 minute ride from the airport

www. usnews.com/articles/business/best-places-to-retire/2007/09/20/best-places-to-retire-peachtree-city-georgia.html - Sun Feb 3 2008, 12:36

Lorrie, I haven't made a reduction in the listing price to attract the extra activity... and JR...Duffy will handle negotiations, they review the contracts and help out at my request.... and I'm competent enough at negotiations that I don't have selling agents holding my hand or leading me around by the nose. You guys don't understand your competition well enough. They are a mass marketer that is making a market by virtue of how they're doing business differently. Duffy sold more homes in metro Atlanta last year than any other agency..check out their website to look who's listing with them. I've explained my situtation and rationales more fully to Lee in a private email...I am intuiting from his comments that he understands the questions and issues of the marketplace pretty well and is not just conducting business as usual. I'm not here to pitch for Duffy...just voicing what I see as some new ideas in the market that fit my needs as a seller. - Thu Jan 31 2008, 17:50

I am listed with Duffy....another traditional listing expired after not much activity in 6 months....Duffy encourages listers to find & attract any/all potential buyers that they are able attract via FSBO activity; they are actively marketing it on two, not one MLS, as well as a FSBO site. I am not certain if it fits within the technical definition of an open listing...I defer to your expertise... but it sure is structured to function with benefits close to an open listing...If I find a buyer Duffy takes ~.5% commission and I pay myself the other 3%.

I'm having a lot more action now with their business model...it just feels like there's a better shot to sell because between what Duffy's doing and what I'm doing to attract buyers...it's a lot more than what I had in last 6 months ago. I've had some hits of interest from craigslist as well as two showings in last couple days from agents bringing the buyers....which is a lot more than I had in any one week of previous listing!

Tell me you guys wouldn't take my 3% commission offer if you had a buyer for me...what's bad about that for you? - Sun Jan 27 2008, 18:58

Theresa, I'm a home seller like you; check out my profile/links.

Josh Jarvis and Lee Taylor are the only agents, by virtue of their answers, that seem to me to have the right insight into the shifting market paradigms of real estate marketing! And I think you do too because you have or are about to have an open listing...I believe.

If an agent wants to make money, then they'll bring their buyers to open listing properties, if the properties meet buyer's criteria, and they will MAKE MONEY! Agents that offer open listings recognize the value of the new paradigm....it's an open market that serves buyer and seller best. Brokers offering open listings probably are high volume , flat fee, home marketers that would rather open up your property to the pure competition of the market place; including the competition that you might find the buyer yourself. They would rather make a little money on more properties by mass marketing them and aren't afraid of change and competition. - Sun Jan 27 2008, 16:40

thanks for your interest and efforts...but I was interested in what any assumed price drop of the median value home, not the average price, has been since July '07....if there was a drop? The average price wouldn't necessarily indicate volatility as accurately as the median since it's more highly influenced by the extreme outlying lows & highs. I live in PTC so this is my area of interest but would like to know what the metro stat is as well - Sun Jan 27 2008, 18:41