The Real Living Advantage

•Real Living understands and caters to the tech-savvy buyer: 80% of all buyers are now starting their home search on the internet.
•Real Living is the 7th largest Real Estate franchise nationally with offices in more than 20 states.
•Real Living.com: Visitors spend twice as much time on RealLiving.com as on other Real estate sites mainly because of the user-friendly tools and wealth of information.
•Unique URL Address: All Real Living Listings have their own website with detailed listing information, home photos, and mapping features.
•Search Engine Optimization: Real Living Listings have extensive presence online through major Real Estate websites including Trulia, Googlebase, Zillow and Oodle.
•Sellers can take advantage of a My Real Living Account with many interactive features, such as daily tracking of your home’s webpage views.
•E-Promotion: Agents and buyer prospects will receive e-cards with a link to your home’s website.
•Professional Photos and Virtual Tour: Photos are the most important part of marketing your home on the internet. The more photos, the more interested buyers. I can put up to 27 photos and a virtual tour on your home’s website.
•Traditional Marketing: Real Living takes advantage of tried and true marketing: Largest, most visible yard signs, eye-catching print advertising and open houses.
•High profile location: Being the first and only Real Estate office in the center of downtown Asheville, we offer unique exposure for your home by placing a detailed listing flyer in our window.

As Your Listing Agent I will:
• Help you obtain the highest possible price for your house in the shortest amount of time with the least amount of stress.
• Advise you in pricing your home by researching recent comparable sales within your area.
• Suggest what you can do to get your home in top selling condition by providing you with ‘staging’ tips and feedback.
• Enter your property information in MLS and provide a secure Lockbox. Every realtor in our area will have information and pictures of your home, and can schedule showings for their qualified buyers; obtaining safe easy access to your home without interrupting your schedule.
• Set up showings through Showing Services (convenient way to show your home & provide feedback).
• Provide feedback from showings.
• Immediately advise you of changes in the market condition.
• Present all offers to you promptly and assist in evaluating them.
• Schedule and coordinate completion of inspections, appraisals and contingencies and keep you informed about important deadlines.
• Negotiate the repair request presented by the buyer.
• Provide top recommendations of attorneys, vendors and others as needed to facilitate the sale of your home.
• Coordinate and supervise the preparation of all closing documents and guide you through the closing process!

Advertising/Market Plan:
Once your home is listed with me, the information is fed through Real Living’s
data center where it is posted to:
-RealLiving.com
-RealLivingConnect.com
-CarolLMarin.com
-WNCRMLS.com
-Realtor.com
-Trulia.com
-Googlebase
-Oodle
-Yahoo Classifieds
-Zillow.com
-Craigs List
-Real Estate Book (which feeds to an additional number of websites)
-All other local companies’ sites through ‘Broker Reciprocity’
• Unique Eye-Catching Signs with my contact information so that potential buyers can contact me directly.
• Your home will have it's own URL address that will take the consumer directly to the property web page. I can add up to 27 pictures, all the property details, mapping features and even a virtual slide show.
• Rotational Print Ads in The Real Estate Weekly and The Real Estate Book. Additional web presence through the Real Estate Books online partners.
• Unique E-cards to all agents (1,300+) in WNC (with a link to your home’s web page) introducing your home to the market, inviting them to open house(s) and making them aware of any price change (if applicable).
• Asheville Area Relocation Marketing E-cards and flyers marketing your home to all prospective relocation clients from the Asheville Area Chamber.
• Organize and Host Open House(s) If appropriate.

My job is to attain the highest price possible for your home in the shortest amount of time. My market plan provides maximum exposure to the marketplace, attracting a larger pool of qualified buyers.