FAQ

No. A List It Chicago agent will be sure to contact you within 1 business day after you submit your listing to ensure completeness, accuracy, and answer your questions before the listing goes onto the MLS and the marketing begins.

You Pre-Pay for List It Chicago real estate brokerage services. We accept all major credit cards, personal and company checks. The website allows you to complete the entire listing process online. Remember anytime you need assistance just give us a call (312) 927-6500.

List It Chicago agents are more than happy to arrange a phone consultation with potential clients. Feel free to give us a calll and we will happily answer all of your questions about our money saving service.

Ultimately you make the final decision on price.  However, we offer extensive pricing assistance based on recent market activity in your area.  Our analysis will tell you what current comparable properties are selling for, what they have sold for within the past month, three months and six months.  This analysis helps you derive a price that is based on real information as opposed to guessing or emotion.  Price is the single most important factor in a successful home sale.

Absolutely! With over 80% of buyers going straight to the Internet to begin the search for a new home it is critical that you afford them as much information and views of the property as possible. List It hires a third party professional virtual tour and photography company to come to your home and take the best shots possible.  It's all part of the premium package

Your home will be listed in the Multiple Listing Service (MLS). The MLS is a vast database of all of the homes being sold in the Chicago area. Buyer's agents search this database to find matches based upon their clients criteria. The MLS also informs the buyer agent of the commission being offered on a home.

List It Chicago will receive all offers for the purchase of your home.  We then contact you and go over the merits of the deal, offer our professional opinion based upon market conditions, completeness of the offer, and provide assistance developing counter offers.  Professional guidance at this point is critical as many times buyers agents submit offers highly biased toward the buyer as one would imagine.  Price is but one of many concerns when deconstructing an offer, we will help explain what is customary and what is not.

Sure do! And best of all you elect the level of our participation in the process.  Our goal is to provide the highest level of service throughout the sales process.  You will never be left wondering what to do or how to do it!  We are with you from listing to closing and beyond.

Your List It Chicago property consultant will work with you all the way through to a successful closing. In Illinois closings are handled at Title Companies where the buyer, seller and their attorneys meet to consumate the deal.

We suggest the use of a real estate attorney familiar with real estate closings to aide you in the process.

Though dual agency (working both sides of the same deal) is legal in Illinois, List It Chicago agents do not engage in this practice. If one of our buyers is interested in one of our sellers listings we will refer the buyer directly to our seller with no expectations of additional commission or fees.

Absolutely. You may change your listing including price and co-operative brokers commission (buyers agent commission).

There are several factors that may lead to a home not selling. Typically these factors have to do with price and condition of the home. List it Chicago does not guarantee that your home will sell within the time it is listed with us and does not refund based upon a home not selling.

Yes. You may cancel the listing at anytime. However, listing fees are non-refundable as we have invested monies toward the marketing of your home.

The MLS is like a huge property warehouse. Brokers selling real estate in Chicago, Illinois and the suburbs of Chicago have come together to input all of their office listings into one spot so as to easier facilitate the sale of Illinois real estate. This database can only be accessed in total by members of the MLS. Limited access to the MLS is allowed by the general public at various websites like Realtor.com®.

The benefit of having a property listed on the MLS is tremendous, particularly in the Chicago land area as the MLS of Northern Illinois is one of the largest in the entire country, affording high levels of exposure for your property. The fact that real estate agents sell a vast majority of homes sold in the Chicago land area (upwards of 75%) makes it highly beneficial for anyone serious about selling a home to list it in the MLS.

You bet it is! Research completed by the National Associations of Realtors® proves this very point.So our question to traditional brokerages; why is your marketing so agent focused? At List it Chicago you won't see our pretty faces splashed all over every single promotional piece. Our focus is Internet-centric and technology driven. We will get your home online and in-front of potential buyers from day one.

No. We suggest the use of a competent real estate attorney in any real estate transaction. They will be able to hold earnest money or select a third party service.

Many flat fee real estate services are national referral services. We are LOCAL and understand the unique aspects of Chicago land real estate brokerage. Our technological and Internet-centric marketing focus combined with our commitment to see you succeed makes us more than just a list and forget you service like so many national referral services. We have made a commitment to quick and easy communication with our clients through specialized software. We want to be your real estate consultants; we will strive to exceed your expectations, because ultimately the best compliment you could give us is referring our services to a friend or family member. We have high hopes of being recognized as the leading flat fee real estate broker in Illinois and understand that servicing our clients with accuracy, speed, and respect may just get us there.

NO! List It Chicago will route all calls directly to you. We do not represent both sides of the deal (known as dual agency).