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Originally Posted by Yvonnebang
We're getting ready to list our parents' Premier house on the market. Just learned that there are two ways to list it. What are the pros and cons of going with The Villages agent or the outside agent? Thanks in advance!
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We bought a premier home in 2019. We had bought a designer home in 2017 and realized we needed something larger. Spent 5 months looking at Zillow, The Villages website, and the Daily Sun, then going to open houses.
The home we bought happened to be listed by The Villages. We noticed the house on their website, made an appointment to see it 2 days after the listing, and made an offer the day after we saw it. In our case it made no difference whether the house was listed by VLS or MLS. We would have found it either way. We didn't use a realtor until we made an offer.
The quality of the listings for the 25 houses we looked at was very similar, whether VLS or MLS. I thought MLS realtors did a little better job of open houses. I liked Debbie/Matt Roberts and Cindy Wise.
After our offer was accepted we listed our designer house with The Villages and we had a full price offer in 16 hours for 10% more than we paid.
Currently VLS has 5 premier homes and MLS has 6.
All 3 of my transactions were through The Villages and they were really easy. Used Lynn Peterson and his daughter.
I would talk to an MLS and a VLS realtor, see how they would price and market your house, then pick the one you prefer.