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Old 05-10-2021, 05:05 AM
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Originally Posted by graciegirl View Post
The Villages agents make the same percentage selling new or used. Our Village agent, Jim McLaughlin, showed us resales when we decided we needed a bigger home.
The point is the Villages agents have NO access to MLS listings at all.
They cannot list them,
They cannot show them,
They cannot see them.

There is a whole, bigger world out there in MLS that Village realtors do not talk about or deal with. We closed on house 2 in March. It took us an additional 3 weeks to close because the title agencies were doing 10 closings a day in TV and that was the backlog.

8/10 people use MLS to purchase.

Always excited to see a new person look at our little slice of heaven, but he needs to know how big the resale world actually is.