Assist-2-Sell Franchise

Leading Assist-2-Sell Office Relocates to Knoxville, Tenn.

Husband and Wife Team Help Homeowners Save Money with Unique Full-Service Real Estate Brokerage

Assist-2-Sell franchise owners Don and Kim Rose just opened another Assist-2-Sell office after relocating to the Knoxville, Tenn., area.

Knoxville, TN, March 03, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Don and Kim Rose know a good thing when they see it. For nearly three years, this husband and wife team ran a successful Assist-2-Sell office in the Toledo, Ohio area. Last year, Don and Kim sold their franchise and relocated to east Tennessee. They didn’t abandon the Assist-2-Sell concept, though. Now that they’re settled in, Don and Kim have opened a new Assist-2-Sell office in Farragut, Tenn., to serve home sellers and homebuyers in the greater Knoxville area.

So what is it about Assist-2-Sell that continues to draw the Roses?

“Don and I worked for a 'traditionally-priced' real estate company but we grew tired of justifying our seven percent commission,” says Kim, who also serves as managing broker for the new office. “Assist-2-Sell allows us to offer the same professional services we have always offered but for a lot less money. The only difference between now and then is the savings.”

Assist-2-Sell is a full-service discount real estate company that was started in 1987 in Reno, Nev. Today, there are more than 550 franchise offices throughout the United States and Canada. Assist-2-Sell’s “Full-Service with $avings!”® program has been refined over the last 20 years and sets it apart from other real estate companies.

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Lake Highlands House Sells in 35 Minutes with Assist-2-Sell

Homeowner Saves Nearly $9,000 in Real Estate Commissions

A homeowner in Dallas sold their home in 35 minutes using Assist-2-Sell's “Direct-to-Buyers” marketing program, saving them nearly $9,000 in real estate commissions.

Dallas, TX, February 25, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Thirty five minutes. That’s how long it took for a house in the Lake Highlands area of Dallas to sell last week at full price. The secret? Assist-2-Sell’s “Direct-to-Buyers” SM marketing program.

“No, I’m not reminiscing about the real estate boom. This happened just last week,” assures Todd Tramonte, owner and broker of Assist-2-Sell Buyers & Sellers Realty of Dallas. “Once the seller said, ‘show it,’ we had a contract signed by one of our own buyers within 35 minutes for a net full price offer.”

By working with Assist-2-Sell, instead of a “traditionally-priced” broker, the seller saved nearly $9,000 in real estate commissions, compared to paying six percent. Todd’s office charges $2,995 for houses up to $200,000, with moderate increases for houses that list for more.

Explains Todd, “The only difference between Assist-2-Sell and ‘traditional’ real estate companies is our compensation structure. We charge a low, flat fee instead of a commission that is a percentage of a house’s sale price. That can add up to significant savings.”

As a full-service real estate brokerage, Assist-2-Sell’s experienced brokers and agents handle everything throughout the entire process of selling a house. That includes pricing the house; advertising and marketing online and offline; showing the house to prospective buyers; working with other local brokers and agents; and managing all of the paperwork and the closing.

“We were able to sell the house so quickly because we deal with so many buyers and sellers. Due to our volume and our team approach, we were able to match the best buyer with the best seller,” says Todd. “We really do put people first. Our low commissions allow sellers to be more flexible and enable buyers to get better deals.”

Todd Tramonte opened Assist-2-Sell Buyers & Sellers Realty in Dallas in February 2006. Assist-2-Sell, North America’s Leading Discount Real Estate CompanySM, provides home sellers with full brokerage services for a low, flat fee, saving consumers more than $800 million in commission. Homebuyers also have access to a full range of services, including Assist-2-Sell’s exclusive listings databases. All brokers and agents are fully licensed and Realtors®. On the Net: www.4dallashomes.com.

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Assist-2-Sell Buyers & Sellers Realty
Todd Tramonte
(214) 269-1734
toddt@assist2sell.com
www.4dallashomes.com
www.assist2sell.com

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Assist-2-Sell Optimistic About New Homeowner Relief Program

Assist-2-Sell, the leading full-service discount real estate company, is encouraged by this week’s announcement that six of the nation’s largest mortgage lenders will reach out to homeowners most at risk of losing their homes through a new plan known as “Project Lifeline.” The Company is also pleased to see such strong support for the plan come from the White House, the U.S. Treasury and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Project Lifeline (www.hopenow.com) helps homeowners avoid foreclosure by temporarily suspending the foreclosure process for 30 days. The plan will initially involve Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc., Countrywide Financial Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Washington Mutual Inc., and Wells Fargo & Co. Homeowners who are 90 days or more behind in payments on any type of mortgage, not just subprime loans, can use the extra time to work with their lenders on more affordable loan terms.

Mary LaMeres-Pomin and Lyle Martin, co-founders and co-chief executives of Assist-2-Sell Inc., had these comments on Project Lifeline:

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Unlike many other discount real estate companies, Assist-2-Sell does not discount its fee by eliminating services.

Reno, NV, January 24, 2008 --(PR.com)-- 

It’s been 20 years since Mary LaMeres-Pomin and Lyle Martin left the “traditional” world of real estate to start Assist-2-Sell®, a full-service discount real estate company based in Reno, Nev. Today, hundreds of franchise offices throughout the United States and Canada utilize Assist-2-Sell’s “Full-Service with $avings!”® program, saving consumers a significant amount of money without eliminating any of the service and support they need.

“I just laugh when people say we aren’t ‘real’ real estate brokers because it’s simply not true. We do everything ‘traditional’ real estate companies do, we simply charge less,” says Todd Tramonte, owner/broker of Assist-2-Sell Buyers & Sellers Realty in Dallas. “It feels great offering excellent service at an excellent value.”

Assist-2-Sell’s experienced brokers and agents handle everything throughout the entire process of selling a home, including:

• Helping price the home accurately;
• Implementing a targeted marketing campaign aimed at reaching active homebuyers directly—online and offline;
• Utilizing the MLS, as appropriate, as a marketing tool;
• Taking all phone calls;
• Showing the home to prospective buyers;
• Arranging for other agents to show the home;
• Pre-qualifying homebuyers;
• Helping the homebuyer obtain financing;
• Negotiating the purchasing agreement;
• Writing the sales contract;
• Handling all paperwork;
• Meeting with appraisers;
• Arranging for all inspections; and
• Supervising the closing.                  

Home sellers pay a low, flat fee, instead of a percentage of the home’s sale price, only after their home has sold.

The Assist-2-Sell model was born out of frustration with the way real estate was being practiced. Recalls LaMeres-Pomin, “Home sellers had little choice but to pay high commissions with no assurance they’d receive high value. Because so many agents were struggling to secure their next listing, they spent less time marketing homes and more time marketing themselves.”

Adds Martin, “Consumers were unhappy and a lot of agents were unhappy as well. We wanted to create a system that not only produced satisfied customers but also helped agents be more successful.”

Assist-2-Sell helps franchise owners set up highly organized and efficient offices with trained support personnel and proven sales and marketing techniques. Offices that utilize the “Assist-2-Sell System” can easily handle the volume their lower fee generates, allowing them to operate profitably while still saving their customers a lot of money and providing a high level of service.

“I’ve been in business for only two months and I’ve already listed 24 homes. There hasn’t been one potential client who has interviewed me and then listed with somebody else or decided to sell on their own,” raves EJ Rosenberg, owner/broker of Assist-2-Sell Buyers & Sellers Value Realty in Black River Falls, Wis. “This system is too easy and it works. If you follow Assist-2-Sell’s comprehensive training program, it’s hard to imagine not being successful.”

For more information, visit www.assist2sell.com or call (800) 528-7816.

National Real Estate Franchisors and Brokerages Move In at Yahoo!

New Program Allows Franchisors and Brokerages to Post Free Home Listings On Yahoo! Real Estate

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan 10, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Yahoo! Real Estate today launched its new online property listings program, allowing franchisors and brokers nationwide to post their complete set of home listings on the site for free on the Internet's #1 real estate website. Prudential Real Estate Affiliates and Realogy Corporation, two of the industry's largest franchisors, are among the first to participate in the service, enabling their teams of real estate professionals to market their full catalog of property listings on Yahoo! Real Estate. Realogy's franchise brand networks include CENTURY 21, Coldwell Banker, ERA and Sotheby's International Realty.

Several other leading real estate franchisors and brokerages have also elected to participate in the Yahoo! property listings program, making Yahoo! Real Estate one of the most comprehensive sites offering listings of existing homes for sale. These brokerages include: Assist 2 Sell, First Team Real Estate, GMAC Real Estate, Help-U-Sell, Houlihan Lawrence Real Estate, Illustrated Properties Real Estate, Intero Real Estate Services, Keller Williams Realty, Keyes Company, Long & Foster Companies, RealEstate.com REALTORS, Real Living, Realty Executives International, Weichert Realtors, and ZipRealty.

The new franchisor and brokerage partnerships complement Yahoo! Real Estate's long-standing listings relationships with publishers and aggregators such as Harmon Homes, a division of Homes.com, Homes and Land, ListHub, The Real Estate Book, and Point2 Technologies, ensuring consumers are offered the widest range of real estate information possible online.

"We have benefited tremendously over the past five years from the marketing power Yahoo! Real Estate brings to the table," said Laurie Keenan, President of Prudential Real Estate Affiliates. "As more and more prospective buyers and sellers turn to the Internet for their real estate needs, extending our partnership with Yahoo! allows Prudential to take advantage of leading interactive marketing services offered and to better service our affiliates, our agents, and our customers."

As an extension of this online property listings program, Yahoo! Real Estate will offer franchisors and brokerages a variety of additional interactive marketing services, including featured home listings and display advertising. For example, Prudential Real Estate has pledged all of their affiliates' listings to be featured properties as part of their commitment to continue their "Online Advantage" program.

"The real estate industry is fast-embracing a marketing mantra of wider distribution of property listings online," said Michael Yang, vice president and general manager of Yahoo! Real Estate. "We know that 89 percent of consumers researching real estate online use a Yahoo! product or service in any given month, which presents an amazing opportunity for franchisors and brokerages to put their listings in front of homebuyers."

Yahoo! Real Estate has experienced an 80 percent year-over-year growth rate in audience base and in November surpassed Realtor.com as the most visited online real estate site (comScore MediaMetrix, November 2007). Most recently, Yahoo! Real Estate introduced the following products to offer consumers one of the most comprehensive destinations for online real estate research and listings options:

-- Guides & Advice (Newly launched at http://realestate.yahoo.com/info) provides detailed information for home buyers, sellers and owners to make the most educated real estate decisions. Features include expert opinions, how-to guides, timely real estate news in partnership with Inman News, as well as capabilities to rate, comment and share favorite articles.

-- Schools Search (http://realestate.yahoo.com/schools), allows users to easily search, browse, and evaluate local schools via a map interface. Schools Search allows users to refine and sort their search by school district, distance, grade level, or school type (e.g. public, private, charter).

-- Foreclosures Center (http://realestate.yahoo.com/foreclosures), offers the ability to search for properties in foreclosure, analyze trends in the foreclosure market, and education about buying properties in foreclosure.

-- Home Values Center (http://realestate.yahoo.com/homevalues), provides home valuations from multiple sources, a library of articles and how-to guides on home value topics, and contacts for local appraisers.

-- Neighborhoods Search (http://realestate.yahoo.com/neighborhoods), offers various information about a city of interest, including a quick glimpse of the city's demographics, housing and education statistics, and general maps showing nearby schools, restaurants and shops.

-- Home Loans Center (http://realestate.yahoo.com/loans), provides education on researching loans, financial calculators, expert how-to guides, national and state trends on mortgage and home equity, as well as top rated local mortgage brokers and comprehensive local rate searches.

For more information about how to distribute or market property listings on Yahoo! Real Estate, visit http://realestate.yahoo.com/partner or email aroraa@yahoo-inc.com.

About Yahoo! Real Estate

Yahoo! Real Estate is one of the largest and fastest-growing real estate Web sites in the market, having grown over 80 percent in the last year, according to ComScore Media Metrix November 2007 rankings. Yahoo! Real Estate provides users with one of the most comprehensive sets of real estate information and listings, including new and for-sale home listings, apartments for rent, home values, local schools, detailed neighborhood overviews, and home mortgage rates. Consumers can visit Yahoo! Real Estate at realestate.yahoo.com.

SOURCE: Yahoo!

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Jason Khoury, 408-349-3435
jkhoury@yahoo-inc.com

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Assist-2-Sell Broker/Owner Susan Jacobs Received Best of Prince William

Choosen as the Best Realtor in Prince William County, VA

Manassas, VA, December 15, 2007 --(PR.com)-- Broker/Owner, Susan Jacobs, of the Assist-2-Sell Jacobs Team Buyers & Sellers Realty was recently recognized as the “Favorite” Realtor in the Best of Prince William. “This is such an honor & compliment”, says Jacobs since there are 2673 real estate agents in Prince William County. The Best of Prince William was announced by the Journal Messenger & Potomac New, May 31, 2007.

Assist-2-Sell is America’s Leading Discount Real Estate Company where ‘Full Service with $avings!’® marketing program enables homeowners to sell their homes for a flat fee as low as $3995.*

Assist-2-Sell agents offer all the professional services home sellers expect and need from a real estate professional, including showing the home to prospective buyers, advertising, handling the paperwork, internet marketing, and overseeing all of the closing responsibilities. There are no up-front or hidden fees; sellers pay only when their home sells. Assist-2-Sell recently announced it had saved home sellers over $800 million in Commissions nationwide*.

For more information, contact Susan Jacobs at 703-330-4418 or visit their website at www.VirginiaBuyersAndSellers.com.

*Savings based on statistics since Jan 2000 for all Assist-2-Sell offices in North America compared to paying 6% commission. 6% used for comparison purposes only. Commissions may be negotiable and are not fixed by law. Each office is independently owned and operated.

Can Discount Brokers Survive a Down Market?

By Joel
Lyle Martin, co-founder of Assist2Sell, a full service discount real estate company, addresses the debate of whether a discount brokerage model can prosper in a tough real estate market. Martin's company has been open since 1987, ...
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30 Ways to Save: Low cost Realtors in a difficult market

written by: Mark Koebrich , 9NEWS Consumer Reporter   

KUSA - As the housing slump deepens, sellers are having to get very creative to draw more "eyeballs" to their property.

9NEWS Consumer Reporter Mark Koebrich says sellers have a lot of options when it comes to selecting a real estate agent or a real estate company, including the latest "electronic" agents.

In a real estate market this desperate, many feel they need a full service broker.

"They just don't want to have to deal with it, and a lot of it is, they just don't know what they don't know in the transaction," said Greg Zadel of Zadel Realty.

Many others who have bought and sold property before, like Carolyn Kruse, may find a discounter like Assist-2-Sell more to their liking.

"I think it's their network that keeps drawing me back cause when you have happy sellers, they often come back as happy buyers," said Kruse.

She says she also likes the idea of knowing the fees up front.

"We're full service but we just charge a flat fee so what we do is we make up for it in volume," said Assist-2-Sell agent Dan O'Meara.

Now, another option, a brand new wrinkle: Internet brokers Relogic and ZipRealty.

Will and Lori Pescatore, who are shopping the Denver market, like the idea of looking at ZipRealty's listings whenever they want.

"We search all different hours and stuff, so Lori can get on there and search whenever she feels like doing it," said Will.

"That's right," said Lori. "I don't have to call real late at night. If I'm looking at something I can get all the information. It tells me about schools; it tells me about the area."

Perhaps best of all they say, consumers can use the website to dramatically narrow their choices before beginning a home tour.

"Years ago you had a book and you opened it up and you were lucky to have the outside picture. Now they have as much information about the house as I do," said ZipRealty broker Jetta Brouker.

ZipRealty CEO Pat Lashinsky agrees.

"The great thing is - you can actually see 50-100 homes while you're sitting at home in your bathrobe in front of the computer at 10 o'clock at night, and you can say, here are four that are worth my time tomorrow," said Lashinsky.

It streamlines a process that use to take weeks. The ZipRealty site also has a feature that allows you to make an "offer" on a property to see if you're in the ballpark.

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100 Most Influential Real Estate Leaders: 2007

Inman News has once again named Mary and Lyle in its annual list of the “100 Most Influential Real Estate Leaders,” in the “Brokerage” category.  This is the third consecutive year that Mary and Lyle have been recognized for their contributions to the residential real estate industry.  Below are some highlights from the special report, which Inman released last week.

Inman News has compiled a list of the 100 most influential people in real estate, reflecting the industry’s best and brightest, as well as outside figures whose actions influence the home buying and selling business.  The people on this list embrace leadership, innovation, ingenuity, power and persistence.

The list is broken into six categories:

Brokerage Category: These luminaries have made waves in the residential real estate brokerage business.  Some are renowned industry speakers, some are heads of top brokerage companies, and others are founders of brokerages using alternative business models.

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