Why sellers use us

Your contact details never go on the MLS

This is the difference sellers notice first, and it is the one nobody advertises. On most entry-only listings your email address and your phone number go straight into the agent remarks, because that is where offers have to arrive. From that moment every agent in the state has them, and so does everyone they forward the listing to.

You can hand out your number whenever you want to. The point is that it is your decision rather than a side effect of listing.

You get an account, not a form and silence

Most flat fee services end at the submission. You fill something in, you get an email, and from then on you are guessing. Here you get a seller portal that shows where the listing stands.

1. 1Everything about the listing in one placeStatus, what we are waiting on, what you still owe us, and what we owe you. If nothing is needed from you it says so plainly rather than leaving you to wonder.
2. 2Photographs you controlDrag them in, as many at once as you like. You decide which one goes first, and that is the one every portal leads with. Change your mind and reorder them.
3. 3Every offer, side by sideNot a pile of PDFs. The terms of each offer laid out against each other, ordered by what you walk away with rather than by the price on the front.
4. 4Your documents, stored properlyScanned for malware, encrypted, and reachable only by you and by us. Never by a link somebody forwarded.

The highest offer is usually not the best one

An offer that is ten thousand dollars higher can leave you with less, and the reason is buried three pages in. Concessions, the buyer agent fee, a longer closing, an appraisal contingency on a price the appraiser will not reach.

So the dashboard does the arithmetic on every offer and shows you what is left after the mortgage payoff, the Michigan transfer tax, what the buyer is asking you to cover, and our own fee. Our fee is in that figure. A net number that leaves out the brokerage charging it is a sales pitch, not a calculation.

• Each offer ordered by what reaches you, not by the number on the front page
• The gap between the top two in dollars, and what the higher one costs you to get there
• What could go wrong with each one, in plain words, before you accept anything
• Every deadline the offer creates, counted from the terms of that offer

Nothing on that screen recommends an offer. It lays them out and the decision stays yours.

The net figure comes from the title company

We are a brokerage. We do not run title searches and we cannot tell you what your tax proration will be or what an underwriter will charge for an owner's policy. Anyone who quotes you a precise net before a title company has looked at it is guessing.

So we ask one. We send the title company the address, the offer terms and the paperwork, and their preliminary settlement statement comes back into your file automatically. When it arrives, their figure is the one shown to you, with their name on it. Ours stays on the page as what it always was: an estimate.

What we do

• Licensed Michigan brokerage. Your listing is entered by a licensee, not by you into a portal that resells it.
• Syndicated the same way any listing is. The MLS feed carries it to Zillow, Realtor.com, Redfin and the rest.
• Cancel in writing before you accept an offer. Nothing is owed at closing if there is no closing.
• No account, no listing. Every listing belongs to an account, so nobody can reach your documents or your offers by guessing a link.