Chris Newell
Sales Rep. C-CREC, e-PRO Internet Certified, ABR, CRES, RMM, CEI
Keller Williams Our Town Realty
350 Main St. E. Milton ON
905-878-4444

Fee-For-Service.com


"Agents will evolve into real estate consultants... (experts at selected stages...
 managing the Client's needs instead of the transaction...)"

-A.D. Little Consulting
from a survey commissioned by NAR,
 1999 on real estate trends for the decade

Fee For Service can really be summed up by saying: Select the services you need, pay what they are worth!  

 

     As a Seller, you may want to hire an agent to handle the sale of your home from listing to closing and all the steps in between, and be perfectly happy to pay the traditional contingent fee that most agents charge. But what if you could pre-pay that fee and save some serious money?

    

     Or maybe you're a seller who would like to do some of the work yourself; you want more control of the sale of your home, but you also want to use the professional services of a RealtorŪ for certain parts of the process. Don't you think that, as a home seller, you should be able to save some money for doing some of the work yourself?

 

 

     Well, we think you should, and that's why we offer our Fee For Service Program. We believe that once we provide objective information about the  selling process and what's involved, YOU should be the one to decide what steps you have the expertise and time to tackle, and which ones you'd like us to handle. Because we offer various Fee-Packages,  A-La-Carte Services, Hourly Consulting, as well as Traditional Commissions, we can tailor our services based on what YOU need to reach your goals. 

 

    

     There are some definite requirements to meet if you wish to avail yourself of our unbundled services, and we will be pleased to meet with you to discuss this further. The two key points to remember are:

 

  1. This is not discount brokerage where we try to offer the full service for the lowest price - this is a limited service model - you get the services you pay for.
     
    In his book 'The E-Myth', Michael Gerber uses a pie shop to illustrate a principle that is directly applicable to the comparison between discounted real estate services and the Fee For Service model. In the pie shop, Sarah can make pies and sell them for $10 per pie take-home, or $2 per slice to eat-in, which will bring her $16 for a whole pie's worth of slices. Tomorrow, if she has any inventory left, she will have to discount those pies to sell them. 
    In this example, the typical 'one size fits all commission model', can be compared to the purchase of a whole pie; you may not want to eat a whole pie, but that has been your only option unless you wanted to eat-in. However, when Sarah started offering 'pie-by-the-slice' take-home, all of a sudden, she was offering people to choose to buy only the right number of pieces for their needs - a direct comparison to the Fee-For-Service model.

  2. You will be responsible for performing the balance of the tasks required to complete the sale or purchase of your home.

 

So, if you would like to learn more about our exclusive Fee For Service Program, just send us an email with your phone number and we will call you back to set a time for us to meet and discuss these money saving services in detail (sorry, but we don't offer consultations over the phone or the Internet).