When I listed my home with a Realtor in the Baltimore suburbs in 2011, I used a full service broker, but they were a discount broker. They charged only 1.75% commsion, that included taking photos and displaying on their website and listing it on MLS and putting a multi-lock on the garage door. The selling agent if another agency, gets their regular commission, which I was 3%, so it would cost 4.75% total if another agency sold the home.
Advance Realty Our Selling Fee only 1.75%
I made the listing with agent at 6pm in my dining room. The next morning at 8am and agent from the largest company in Maryland/Virginia, Long & Foster Realty called and asked to show the home at 10am. They arrived and viewed the home, I didn't even have time to leave and there was no multi-lock on the home yet. At noon they called and said they had a offer, it was slightly below list, and the money was guaranteed by the Wegman Grocery Co since the buyer was a store manager.
Sold the home in 18 hours from of listing to accepting the offer. Since I had just had a LSV three weeks earlier, I didn't even return to TV, I bought a new CYV over the phone with my salesman Tony Trussler. Every CYV, patio villa and cottage we had toured 3 weeks earlier had already sold. So we bought a new villa sight-unseen because they didn't have photos on the website yet. Tony came over to the villa that night and took pictures inside and out and emailed them to me, so I still had time to back out if I didn't like what I saw. The villa had been reduced twice, so a new masonry CYV for $157K was hard to refuse.
Here is the home I sold in 2011 in Abingdon, Maryland. I paid $152K for the home in 1998. It had 3 BR 2 BA 2 half baths, a finished basement. Sold it in 18 hours in 2011 for $275K, I did all the landscaping myself over the 13 years we lived there.
I grew up in Florida, so my intentions were always to return. This is one of the reasons I left Maryland.