About Joel Matson and Team
Deep Buyer Discounts!
Full Service Marketing from 2.7%!
Free MLS Listings for FSBOs
JOEL MATSON - Broker Associate- Team Leader
Susan Borchert - Customer Service – 203-888-7111
Kathy Johnson - Sales Associate: 860-575-7750
Lindsay Commune - Sales Associate 203-671-2771
THE COMMITMENTS WE MAKE TO YOU
We are proud to be a part of Divine Realty. Our commitment to excellence has made us extraordinarily productive on behalf of our clients. We believe in honesty and fairness in all our dealings. As your exclusive broker, I am committed to keep your confidences, to negotiate on your behalf, to protect and promote your interests, to use reasonable skill and care, to obey your lawful instructions and to disclose information to you. I believe that your interests can be promoted through thoughtful and responsive attention to your needs. With diplomacy, politesse and good will your goals can be accomplished most placidly and comfortably
We are proud of our state-of-the-art tools, and our commitment to speedy and effective response to you! We answer our phones very long hours, 365 days a year. We attend to our email from early morning till very late.
PRODUCTIVITY
I am pleased to tell you that during 2007, my buyers and sellers engaged in 65 purchase and sale contract, with a total value of over $17 Million. Last year, I was named among the 100 most productive among 20,000 agents in Connecticut. I only state this because it shows that my clients are having success!
We have developed some very powerful marketing programs, which we provide at astoundingly modest rates.
STRONGLY ENHANCE BUYER SERVICES
We are happy to provide enhanced services to all of our buyer clients. Our rates are discounted by 10-50%.This yields a purchase price savings or rebate of between $200 and $10,000! Check out our buyer services information about strongly augmented services, which include a contract guarantee, no transaction fees ever, rebates of broker fees in excess of 2.5%, rebate of all buyer broker bonuses and free home warranties.
JUMPSTART! THE MOST AMAZING SERVICE BREAKTHOUGH FOR YOU IF YOU ARE BUYING AND SELLING
The most astonishing and remarkable plan that we have to help our clients is our JUMPSTART plan. Here is how it works. In many towns the market is slow. Even good homes are taking a long time to sell. You may be frustrated because your home is not selling, and therefore you cannot buy.
Moreover, if you recently bought, or refinanced, you may not have huge equity, and therefore not be in a good negotiating position. Enter JUMPSTART! As a seller you may sign up for a FSBO plan, which limits your selling expense to 0% to 2.5%. Right off the bat, this can give you more bargaining power with your buyer, and move the process forward. Instead of giving 5% to a broker, you may be able to give a very attractive seller concession, such as a price reduction, or a serious closing cost credit. Such a concession may bring more buyers in, who are being increasingly pressed by their lenders! If you do not want to be actively involved in the selling process you may choose one of our very modestly priced full service plans starting from 2.7%, with many discount possibilities built in.
Additionally, if you are working with me as a buyer on your prospective purchase, I can earmark a very large percentage of my eventual compensation to give back to you. You may in turn use this significant concession ($500 to $10,000) to attract your buyer!!! This is a hugely important way for you to break out of the pack! If there are 20 homes that a buyer might consider, and you are offering a $5000 closing cost concession, you may expect to draw some very serious interest in your property. Alternatively, you may use those resources to enhance your home. You might add an inexpensive gas fireplace, or replace appliances, or redecorate. You may add a 1 to 4 year home warranty, which may really appeal to some buyers!
EXAMPLES
My clients recently were having difficulty finding a buyer for their beautiful town home, valued at about $140K. We worked together, and got the property sold, offering a concession of $4000 to their buyer. In this case, I conceded $2000 and they conceded $2000. They were able to distinguish their home among many others in the market, by offering this significant concession, and we got it sold. Effectively I gave back no doubt every bit of the commission that I had earned from the sale. So now they were poised to be able to buy the beautiful country home that they had been dreaming of. Even after conceding basically my entire commission on their sale, I additionally conceded 10% of my buyer agency commission for their purchase. So they were due as it tuned out, about an $800 cash credit at their closing. (This money they could feature as partly covering the money that they had to give to make their SALE happen.) Without this plan, they might still be waiting for their buyer!
FREE MLS/REALTOR.COM LISTING FOR FSBOs
We offer a very powerful Free MLS/enhanced Realtor.com listing program for you if you are for sale by owner. Your home will be seen by other brokers on the multiple listing service(s), so they may bring their buyers. You may offer a broker as little as a 2% commission to bring you a buyer. Your home will be presented as a strongly enhanced listing on Realtor.com, to reach the internet buyers, where we will advertise enhancements for our buyer clients of your home. If it is I that brings you my own buyer, the commission would be only 1%! Your home will appear on scores of websites, including AOL, MSN, Wall Street Journal, Yahoo, and many major real estate company websites. You may sell on your own and owe nothing! So the choices are 0%, 1% or 2% as far as the final cost. You may end the agreement at any time. In addition to the internet and broker promotion, you would have the benefit of my consultation by email and phone as to marketing, negotiating and contract management. For certain kinds of properties in certain locations, there will additionally be regular print promotion in home magazines and newspapers. All of this is at no charge to you. Additionally, we offer a uniquely powerful “Promotional partnership”.
PROMOTIONAL PARTNERSHIP
Should you choose to work together on promotion and advertising, you may have the possibility of some of your advertising costs rebated. Example: If you purchased an ad with my contact information in it, and a caller bought the property, you would pay no commission. If, however, that caller bought a different home with me, then many or all of your promotional expenses would thereafter be covered by me! Your home marketing has therefore generated an “income” that covers the cost of my services (open houses, advertising, full-service representation) It is a radically client oriented process which focuses on working together to accomplish your goals! Working harmoniously for mutual advantage. What a concept. Effectively, this turns a major downside of being For Sale by Owner into a plus! The bane of FSBOs – having their time wasted by people who do not buy their property, becomes a great potential benefit!
FULL SERVICE MARKETING FROM 2.7% TOTAL
We have powerful full service MLS home marketing programs beginning at 2.7%!! We offer discounts for quick sales, for non-shared commissions, for hardship situations, for cash purchases, for seniors, if you bring the buyer, and for "partnership benefits" see above. (If we meet a buyer through the marketing of your property, and they purchase a home through us, you will receive a discount or an upgrade in your services.
TOO MANY HOMES?
Do you have an "extra home" due to inheritance or combining households? Our Ultra-Premium Listing Service provides for short term property management, auction arrangements for the contents, or free cleanout service. Our sensitive service providers can take the headache out of breaking up housekeeping!
We offer a premium listing program which provides you with a free professional home staging consultation, some free handyperson home prep services, and other powerful benefits including substantial incentives to your buyers... We offer these astoundingly enhanced services at listing rates competitive with other company’s standard services!
WILL WORK FOR TOYS! (OUR ENJOYABLE, INTRIGUING BARTER PLAN)
We have a very interesting and creative barter plan, where you may exchange your services or items of interest for our real estate services! (Who'd have thought your daughter's Barbie Doll collection would ever come in handy?) This is especially relevant to builders and developers who may trade their services for marketing, and thereby strongly reduce or eliminate their commissions! I joke that I carry a cardboard sign “Will work for toys”. I enjoy swapping services and “toys” whether they be interesting vehicles, objets d’art, antiques, weekend vacation accommodations. (Some of these may be given as gratuities to my clients, or in the past things that I receive from clients have been earmarked as charitable donations.)
BENEVOLENT BARTER AND CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS - THE NEXT LEVEL OF GIVING
If you are a professional person, you may actually donate your services to a great number of non-profit groups in exchange for our services. We are strongly committed to a modern interpretation of the noblesse oblige - Having been the benefactor of goodness in the world; we want to be part of giving back. We do strongly believe in contributing to such organizations as the Jimmy Fund for cancer research. As a cancer survivor, I believe that doing good is in the end more important than doing well.
If you are involved with a nonprofit group, or house of worship that needs to raise funds, we have a wonderful plan whereby substantial percentages of our profit in a transaction (Up to 90%) may be given to the organization that refers their client to me! In a premium home transaction, this may represent a cash gift of $5000 to $20,000. This is probably the easiest fundraiser in the world!
In the same vein of charitable cooperation, we are happy to offer our services at huge reductions (forgiving up to 100% of our profits) to non-profit groups in need of real estate services.
HOW CAN WE DO IT?
We can offer these large savings by avoiding needless expenses and useless layers of management, by using YOUR resources wisely, focusing directly on enhanced internet presence and effective local marketing. Creative marketing, good advice, and energetic action are central to your success, not style, bells and whistles! We believe that our enthusiasm for your property is contagious!
We are part of a new wave of real estate services, which is all about you! Ride the new wave! How can we help you achieve your home marketing goals?
Sincerely,
Joel Matson and Team
Fairfield County, Litchfield County, Middlesex County, New Haven County, Tolland County, Hartford County and Beyond
About Joel Matson and Team