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3% Commission Plan

    With all the technology that has impacted business in general, what the real estate business model should be doing, as the Travel Industry and Financial Services Companies have done, is reducing commissions while improving customer service. And lets face it, if you are behind in your mortgage you need every dollar you can find and can't afford to over pay for real estate services. 

How Can Marsden & Associates LTD Market Properties
 For Less Money?

      At Marsden & Associates LTD we can offer our services for less money today because technology has made marketing property less expensive than it was 10 years ago when the only way to market a home was in newspapers or house magazine. Back then you paid hundreds of dollars for an ad in a print publication that had a circulation of 30,000. Today that same ad, thanks to the internet cost a few dollars and is placed in front of millions of potential buyers.

               Why Do Other Companies Still Charge 5 or 6%?

    Why don't other companies offer reduced commissions? They don't for a variety of reasons; either they don't understand how to market on the internet (you can see this by outdated web sites with very few features, or the inability to find their web site unless you know the web address) or they haven't adjusted to the new market where you might have to work harder and sell more property than you did a few years ago (Look at stock brokers, they use to get 10% of the value of a trade. Today they get $8.95 and have grown and become more profitable) Lets face it some are doing a lot less transaction and therefore need to make more money in every transaction they do. Some just don't want to "slay the golden goose". But whatever the reason the inability of some companies to adjust to the new market is costing you money, not them.

                                    Can I Really Save Money?

       At 3% Marsden & Associates LTD can provide for you more services and marketing than our competitors, sacrificing nothing while saving you thousands of dollars. Our fee structure and marketing is unmatched in the local real estate market today.

                                     Why Do You Hire a Real Estate Company?

     Listing property is about knowledge of the market place (list price) and a marketing plan. Choosing a list price is about where your property fits into recent comparable sales and property that is currently listed for sale. Marketing is about exposure...The more you can expose a particular property to the greatest number of potential buyers the greater your chance for a successful offer. That's what you hire a real estate company to do, to expose your property to as many buyers, and other agents and their buyers.

                          Where Do Buyers Shop For Houses?

     The recently released 2006 National Association of Realtors Profile of Home Buyers found what we all expected, that 85% of all property buyers today use the internet to locate and research property. It would make sense then to spend 85% of your marketing dollars on the internet.

                        How Do Other Companies Market Homes?

     We find that too many companies are relying on old and outdated ways of marketing property, large print ads or media buys in local real estate magazines that take up large parts of their marketing dollars (NAR's 2006 Profile of Home Buyers found only 4% of buyers use newspapers & house magazines as an information source). Lets face it, we live in an area where most of the buyers aren't moving across town or across the county but are moving in from areas farther away (NYC, LI, NJ.), areas that don't subscribe to or read the local newspapers or local real estate books. Consider how you would look for property if you were living in NYC and thinking of looking for property in Orange County. Would you drive upstate to get the local paper, or would you go on the internet and search for property.

                    How is Marsden & Associates LTD Different?

    At Marsden & Associates we understand this. Marsden & Associate LTD is one of a handful of over the 1500 Real Estate companies that operate in the Hudson Valley that has an in house IT department. The value of this is that we are constantly updating and managing our major marketing piece JamesMarsden.net. In addition our IT staff positions our web site JamesMarsden.net daily on over 1400 search terms that are used by property buyers on the internet today. We have also partnered up with over 400 of the largest national, regional and local real estate web sites as well as a majority of our competitor's web sites to expose your property to millions of potential buyers. In addition we are one of a handful of Real Estate Companies to implement streaming information videos as well as videos of our properties on everything form You Tube to Realtor.com. For a complete marketing plan on how we can sell you home contact us today.