Frequently Asked Questions:

• What do I get? You will own an exclusive territory and will be trained on how to get paid a flat fee, upfront, even if the home does not sell of up to $995 on each listing and the seller will still save around 1/2 price for the same if not better marketing. You can earn six figures immediately. You may receive listings from our network of national vendors too, which is likely to bring in the income to you to cover you small monthly marketing fee of only $495. You keep all of the rest of the income that our turn key, business in a box will provide to you. You will own a $100,000 website for your territory, with a built in back end that will capture buyers and sellers and incubate them and upsell them for you while you are sleeping. You will wake up to find Large deposits in your checking account from sign ups on your website. It is amazing to own a business that not only makes you a lot of money, BUT HELPS PEOPLE too.
  
  
• What can I offer? You can offer whatever packages you would like. Your companies website, store is totally customizable and you can work from your home computer. This is the lowest overhead business I have ever heard of with the most profit potential.
  
  
• Do I need to be a broker? It is best if you are a Licensed Broker, but if you can get access to a sponsoring Broker, or are willing to become a broker you can offer MLS packages. If you are not a Broker, you can always just offer For Sale By Owner packages and we will market their home in other ways. We can still advertise their home on the Number 1 Real Estate Website in the World, Realtor.com even if you are not personally a licensed broker, through our national network.
  
  
• Who is eflatfeerealty.com? eFlatFeeRealty represents a nationwide network of Flat Fee and Discount Realtors® across the nation. We offer real estate brokers the ability to compete with national referral companies for flat fee MLS listings and other real estate services by providing a comprehensive and complete website and national marketing exposure. We give consumers direct access to real estate brokers in their state who provide flat fee and discount real estate services so that they don't have to pay a referral fee to the website operator. We don't dictate your pricing or your terms of service. You set the prices and what's included in each package. You'll keep 100% of all profits generated in your state including ads purchased on your site by real estate related companies in your state.

  eFlatFeeRealty gives you everything you need to get started. You'll get your own eFlatFeeRealty website and CRM with marketing campaigns, drip email and the ultimate in customer relationship management. Your site comes complete with an e-commerce store for selling Flat Fee MLS listing plans and a la carte items.

  eFlatFeeRealty is listed with the top search engines in the country such as Google, Yahoo, AOL, MSN, and more. Member and affiliate brokers share the cost of Sponsored Link advertising thereby making marketing to a national audience competitive and cost-efficient. However, we're dominating Google search results in the FREE organic results. If you perform a Google search for keywords like "des moines flat fee, des moines flat fee mls, des moines flat fee broker" and anything else you can imagine that's related to flat fee in des moines we dominate. Furthermore we're climbing the ladder for the national keyword "flat fee mls" in Google we're currently #18 in the free "organic" results out of over 14 million! You'll get your own site like iowa.eflatfeerealty.com and we'll optimize the site for "your state flat fee mls" and all the variations. Today (8-24-09) we built iowa.eflatfeerealty.com – by the end of the week we'll be #1 in Google for Iowa Flat Fee.

• How difficult is it to get approved to buy a franchise? It is not difficult. However, we want all of our franchisees to succeed so it is important that you have funds available to buy equipment, find a location, invest in advertising, and cover any other operating expense that may arise. Starting your own eflatfeeREALTY.com Franchise is no different than starting any other business, you will need to have personal financial security for the first few months while your business gets off the ground. We do not require a credit check, but we do ask you to complete a financial statement.

• Does eflatefeeREALTY.com offer training to help me get started? Yes. We offer a 2-day training program either in person or an online webinar. In addition we provide all of our franchisees with an easy to understand manual that will answer all of your questions. On going support is always available by phone and online.

• How much is the on-going royalty? A flat fee of $495 per office, per month. see Franchise Cost

• Why should I buy a franchise? Statistics show that franchised businesses have a better chance to succeed. With a franchise, you join a team that will always be there to help you. eflatfeeREALTY.com has a proven system that works and you don’t have to build your own system from scratch, or spend thousands of dollars creating an image and branding your new company. We have top quality marketing materials in place that you can just put your name on and print. We even have TV commercials that you can use in your area. Not only does this save you thousands of dollars, but it makes starting up your own office that much easier.

• How do you pay your agents? We have developed a formula that is fair and equitable to all agents. This is confidential information which we will share with you as part of the franchise training.

• Do we buy signs, marketing materials and other things through eflatfeeREALTY.com? All of our franchise owners are given a preferred vendor list. These vendors have all the necessary logos, color combinations, etc. to make buying as easy as possible for you. Most of our suppliers offer goods and services to our franchise owners at discounted rates.

• I am interested in talking with someone about owning a franchise, what is the next step? The fastest way to get started is to call our franchise office at 515-770-7653 and speak with us about your specific area. Please fill out our Request Materials form to have an information packet mailed to you. If you are beyond the “testing the waters stage” and are ready to get started, please fill out the franchise application and fax it or email it to our office and someone will contact you shortly. Our fax number is 515-770-76536 and our email address is scott@eFlatFeeRealty.com.