We also had to tear out the garage stairs because they were saturated with urine and feces.After two days of scrubbing the garage floor, with everything from simple green to bleach to baking soda, the place is finally smelling better.

@Kelly Williams another thing I would consider would be to check to see if your market is appreciating rapidly or is it pretty flat.

You can probably charge a flat fee or any commission above that your broker requires for a transaction.Only your broker can tell you what you need to do, if you don't like the requirements you can look for another broker. :)

Some day you may want to get into rehabbing and having a good relationship with a few agents could pay off with lower listing fees or flat fees for all of the work you have done together over the years.It doesn't hurt you as if a deal isn't going to be a deal, find someone who can prosper off of it and it will be paid back over time.

Are there companies that will handle only maintenance either for a monthly flat fee or on an as-required basis?

Here is some info on flat fee MLS listing:http://www.trulia.com/voices/Home_Selling/Will_BUYER_real_estate_agents_call_flat_fee_MLS_li-41510

There are brokers around my area who will list on the MLS for a flat fee of about $300 so we saved close to $10,000 not using an agent.

When we bought the house it was flatted out into an upstairs and downstairs apartment.

If you have some experience with negotiating forms and the market is really moving, find a flat fee realty company that puts your home in the MLS and you do everything else.

Flat fee listing services are becoming very popular from what I've seen.