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The Flat Fee Home Team - Charles Rutenberg Realty Associates

With a Full Service Flat Fee listing, we give homeowners the opportunity to keep more of their equity without sacrificing professional representation.

The Flat Fee Home Team offers homeowners a full-service listing at a flat fee of $4495. This is a FULL SERVICE listing, that provides broad online exposure with transparent, predictable pricing.

Our Full-Service Flat-Fee Listing provides the same powerful exposure as traditional percentage-based listings — at a fraction of the cost. We go beyond the traditional local MLS, and list your home on a nationwide MLS with direct syndication to major platforms like Zillow, Realtor.com, Homes.com, Trulia, and hundreds of additional real estate websites. That means your property gains maximum visibility and reaches today’s online buyers where they are actively searching.

Pricing Guidance

We provide a comprehensive Comparative Market Anlaysis (CMA) to help you price your home to sell.

High Quality Images

We take photos the day you sign your listing agreement. We use AI to optimize them for presentation and online quality.

Online Presence

We go beyond the local MLS, and send your listing nationwide. It is then DIRECTLY, syndicated to sites like Zillow, Realtor.com, Homes.com Trulia, and many more.

Scheduled Showings

We use an online booking tool tied to your MLS listing to coordinate with your schedule.

Yard Signs

Every listing gets a yard sign, so they know you are listed with the Flat Fee Home Team.

A Licensed Agent

This is not an MLS listing service where you may have a call center to reach out to with questions. You get a licensed agent who you work with from listing to closing.

From LISTING to CLOSING...we are with you ALL THE WAY!

Many people think they can save money by handling the sale of their home all on their own. Some people can. But there are certain things that an experienced Real Estate Agent brings to the table, that cannot be ignored...

•. Preparing the Proper Buyer Disclosures

•. Contract Review

•. Offer Negotiation

•. Counteroffer Presentation

• Inspection Schedules

•. Appraisal Discrepancies

• Title Search Issue Resolution...(Trust us...these happen more than you know!)

•. Pre-Close HUD/Alta Review

Over 95% of home buyers are searching for their home online, and roughly half find their home through their personal efforts.

Why Direct Syndication is Better

Direct syndication from a nationwide MLS to major real estate websites ensures listings appear faster, more consistently, and with fewer data delays than when listings must first pass through a local MLS and then a third-party distributor.

Each additional step in the distribution chain introduces potential update delays, data inconsistencies, and lost exposure time, which can matter in fast-moving markets where the first days on market generate the most buyer activity. By syndicating listings directly to major consumer sites, sellers gain faster visibility, more accurate listing information, and broader reach to the large share of buyers who are actively searching for homes online.

FLAT-FEE FULL SERVICE REPRESENTATION MATTERS!

Better Marketing + Transaction Expertise + A Low Flat Fee = MORE MONEY IN YOUR POCKET

+18%

The media price of homes sold with seller assistance vs those who do it on their own!

95%

The majority of ALL buyers start their search for their new home online

+70%

Over 70% of home sellers end up needing transaction assistance

Frequently Asked Questions

Aren't MLS listings automatically syndicated to all those real estate sites like Zillow and Realtor.com?

They are not. Local MLS Services are managed through their local association. Brokers can choose to syndicate if they want to, but are not required to do so. Why would they not syndicate? Sometimes they think the MLS is enough, and they want to keep the buyer leads in-house just in case they do not yet have a buyer's agent.

At the end of the day, because it is a choice, there are times they simply want to have more control over the listing, and not syndicating it to major real estate search sites is one way to do that.

What makes the Flat Fee Home team different than other MLS Flat Fee Services?

A Full-Service Flat Fee listing provides homeowners with professional representation throughout the entire selling process, including pricing guidance, marketing strategy, negotiation support, and transaction management through closing.

In contrast, a MLS Listing Service Flat Fee (often called a limited-service listing) typically only places the property into a listing database and provides minimal or no broker involvement beyond that point. With an MLS-only service, the homeowner generally handles pricing, buyer communication, negotiations, and contract management themselves.

Does the Flat Fee Home Team pay the buyer's agent from the $4495 fee?

We do not. Our flat fee listing agreement is between the Charles Ruttenberg Flat Fee Home Team and the Seller. The commission to the buyer's agent would be agreed to with a buyer brokerage agreement between them and the seller. If the buyer wants to request concessions from the seller, they can include that in any offer that they submit. The seller can evaluate that offer based on the total net amount from the transaction, and decide to accept, reject, or counter based on their expectation.

How do you schedule showings?

Our Nationwide MLS Listing has a button to REQUEST A SHOWING. So whether it is a buyer or their agent, we will receive a request for a showing and confirm with you before confirming.

Once a week, we will do a check in to see if there are any days that we need to make the home unavailable for viewing. So if you work from home, or having some touch up work done to make the property more appealing, we can block those times from being requested.

How do you make sure other realtors are aware of the listing, if you are not putting it in the local MLS?

We already know that buyers are doing most of the searching for listings in today's online market place. But other real estate professionals are still an important lead source.

Our extensive database of real estate professionals allows us to email them your listing DIRECTLY from our system. They can then pass on the link via text or email. If their buyer likes what they see, they can simply request a showing with the online booking tool.

Are open houses part of the Flat Fee Home Team value proposition?

Open houses are not part of the flat fee offer. However, if open houses are important to you, we can discuss an add-on service to cover the added effort.

Do you run paid advertisements for the home?

Research and our experience shows that roughly 75-85% of all real estate searches occur in the 4 major real estate search engines. Some luxury homes do benefit from very specific marketing tactics. If your home fits this criteria, we can build a customized marketing plan and provide this as an add-on service.

What about social media sites like Facebook, Instagram and others?

Our local agents are well connected in their local markets. They will be posting your home to local community groups. But let's be honest, there is no better person to showcase your home in your local community than YOU. We will provide you everything you need to share the home on YOUR social media pages and with the groups you are involved in as well.

Wondering what your home is worth?

Online valuation tools are only as useful as the data they reference. When estimating the value of your home, a complete Comparative Market Analysis (CMA) that is created and reviewed by a real estate professional will give you a much better idea of the value of your property. Provide a few simple data points, and a member of our team will run a CMA on YOUR HOME within 1 business day of your submission.