Agents: Would you go along with this?

[Carl Ohai]

Assume there is an online local business directory.

You can post your seller listings for free, with the catch that the contact form goes to a buyer's agent, rather than yourself.

So, when a potential buyer fills out the "request info/showing" form for the listing, the info is forwarded to a different agent, rather than yourself.

Would you still list your properties there?

[Mike Cumbie]

@Carl Ohai

There are currently tons of those (Zillow/REALTOR.com/the other 30 places that call me weekly asking me to be a "preferred buyers agent" for $700 a month on special today only for $199 with a $200 setup fee). All of those have IDX feeds that pull right from the MLS and put the listings on their site, then sell the leads to other agents. I don't think I would go out of my way to advertise there specifically unless I saw it was actually getting buyer traffic that would help give it real exposure for my seller. I have several other marketing plans in place and unless it is worth the effort to manually put it in, I most likely wouldn't.