Here are 3 basic parts to our 1.5% listing program, in a nutshell.
We have been doing 1.5% listing program since 2005, always full service, and we pay over $600 per month for advertising our listings. We continually add new advertising mediums as the digital world changes, and try to keep up with all the latest innovations. You can specifics on our advertising below under advertising.
We also show your home, negotiate all offers, qualify buyers, handle the inspection, help you with repair negotiations, escrow, the appraisal, and all the other paperwork and problems that might come up along the way.
We take professional photos. I’ve been a photographer since 1973, used aperture and light meter etc. Photos are my specialty. We have the latest wide angle camera and spend the time it takes to edit each photo to make sure the best features of your home are captured and displayed.
I’m a professional writer, and take time to write descriptive, colorful, creative ads that emphasize the best features of your home.
I remodeled and built houses for 20 years before becoming a realtor, so understand repair issues, and can fight for you with knowledge and understanding! Read more about my experience below. You can read about my experience in building and restoring homes under Helen.
I taught all the Home Improvement classes at Home Depot back for several years before becoming a realtor-I even wrote and taught the Home Depot University Electrical class.
We are neighborhood Specialists, and wrote the online Portland Neighborhood Guide of at least 150 pages- so we know all the neighborhoods and suburbs of Portland, and we make sure to describe all the unique features of your neighborhood, like parks, shops and restaurants, trails, etc.
I’ve been a Realtor since 1998, had my own company since 2006.
My job evaluation test always puts me as excelling as teacher, psychologist, school principal and social worker! These are important skills needed in working with people, understanding their needs, and negotiating both price and repairs.
I’m a go-getter, highly motivated, and I love what I do. It is our family business, all my kids are involved, and even my brother and his wife are realtors, so when we are together, real estate is right in the middle of us! It is our life!
You can read more details about who we are below.
If you are interested in More Services, we also offer a full service 6% Listing Program
https://www.portlandcreativerealtors.com/full-service-listing-option/
- Under the 1.5% listing program, we list your house and do all the things below for just 1.5% total commission to us! We are Full Service Plus, meaning we do more advertising, are more proactive and offer more services than most of the 6 and 7% listing agents. Many of their “Teams” put you off on one of their newer agents, and you never see the top agent you thought you hired. With our company, the person you hire is the person who lists your house and works with you! Also, we pay over $650 per month for just our listings to be featured on zillow, trulia and realtor.com, plus put it out on facebook-twitter-instagram & pinterest, we do a Virtual Tour, have a youtube channel and do a Virtual Flyer that goes out to google.
- If we bring the buyer or you find a buyer, we will represent both buyer and seller, full service, giving our whole heart and soul, for a total of 2% Commission! No other realtor offers this service!We get lots of action because of the way we advertise-ours is the only company listed next to our listings on zillow or realtor.com. Every other listing on zillow only lists paying realtors that do not know anything about your house!
- If another realtor brings the buyer, you pay us 1.5% and the other realtor 2.5% for a total of 4% commission! That is the lowest rate in town- yet we do 100% full service, really more than full service if you read all that we do! We are not Discount at all! You can find out what Full Service means by reading the points below.
1.5% listing
We are a local family company, mother, 3 daughters and son in law- dad is our webguy! We do all the things that 6% realtors do, but we do it for less: lockbox, listing it on rmls, sign, color flyers, Broker’s Open; We represent you 100% from start to finish, plus much more.
Why 1.5% Listing
We are a local family company, 3 daughters, a mother and a son in law! Dad is our webmaster! We have been doing full service 1.5% listing program since 2005, and over the years have added more and more advertising and other services, without increasing the price. We do quite a bit more than most of the 6% Realtors, and always have. Because we are a local family company, we don’t have all the overhead or franchise fees that the big companies have, so we can put more of our money back into the business, advertising etc… and charge you less too! It is definitely a Win-Win for all of us! I started doing full service 1.5% Listing back in 2005- because I thought it was the right thiIt ng to do! In 1976 we were paying 6% to realtors when I bought my first house for $28,000 up near Seattle! Houses are selling for 10 times as much now… but the commission is still the same! I just didn’t think that was fair to sellers. So we started the 1.5% listing program, and have been very successful- in fact putting us in the Platinum Diamond sales level year after year! And over the years, we have averaged selling about 25% of our listings ourselves…for just 2% Total commission!Extensive Advertising
Extensive Advertising Done – Why our advertising is so much more comprehensive than other realtors: We pay over $600 per month to have all my listings featured on zillow and trulia, which are the top sites that people look at to find houses for sale here in Portland. Our listings on Zillow are featured, we can write as much as we want, about the neighborhood and all the special feature of the property, only our picture and contact are put beside our listings, so all inquiries go to us. Other realtor’s listings are 440 characters, and the 4 realtors beside their listing know nothing about the house. Thay are there because they pay for leads. We pay over $400 per month for our listings to be featured on zillow and truilia, which are the top places that people look for a house on in Portland. It puts us as the only contact for our listings on zillow, instead of giving leads to paying realtors who know nothing about your house. It also allows us to write more about the house, the neighborhood and put on as many photos as we want! Plus we can put on a video about the neighborhood and house. On Trulia, we have all the same info, and we are listed as the listing agent! Other realtors rely on something called Listing Hub to put their listings on zillow, trulia and realtor.com. It only allows the photos and short write up that is on rmls, and their contact is not next to their listings. It takes alot of work for us to hand list our listings, but but the results are worth it! We post in 3 different ways to social media sites. Here is what we do: We create a Virtual Tour of each house, emphasizing, not only the house but the neighborhood and what makes it special and different. We upload that to our YouTube site, to our Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, tumblr and other online outlets that reach different a whole different set of people than traditional ads. We also put the video on rmls, which puts it out on all the realtor websites including Realtor.com, Redfin etc. We hand create these videos to showcase both the house and the neighborhood perks! We also pay to have NAR (National Association of Realtors), to create a flyer of our listing, with slide show, and upload it to facebook and twitter, and we pay to boosts of our ads to send them out to targeted markets. We also do a Virtual Flyer that goes out to google, and 60 different websites. It has a slide show of the house and special things the neighborhood offers, and we upload it to our facebook, twitter, instagram, pinterest, linkedin, and other websites. We also do ads for craigslist and we allow the rmls Listing Hub to upload our listings to the 50 other sites that we don’t hand write, including Redfin, Hasson, John L Scott etc. And we continue adding new advertising mediums as they come available. We spend lots of time on our advertising, but it pays off for both our listings, and our reputation!Photos
I take creative, intuitive, professional photos with a professional Cannon 35 mm digital wide angle lens camera and use the Professional grade Photo Shop editor to make sure your home is showcased at it’s best. Photos are my specialty! I have been using 35 mm cameras since 1973, Using the manual light meter, aperture, etc- I understand what it takes to do a professional photo, have been learning, practicing and perfecting my skill for years, and even sometimes retake photos that a seller may have had done by a professional because I think it could be better. I take the time to get each photo right….I’m not concerned with how much time it takes! I feel that this is the most important thing I can do to get people to come see your house! This is probably one of my favorite things to do when listing a houseAds for 1.5% Listings
I am a professional writer – so I write descriptive, colorful, creative ads bringing out the best features of Your Home. I include surrounding amenities like shops, restaurants, parks, festivals or anything else that makes your neighborhood special. Today, most people are looking for a lifestyle, even more than a house style. I feel that marketing the surrounding neighborhood parks, shops, trails, bike paths and anything else that is unique to your location, is one of the most important things I can do.