Question: My property is listed by a real estate agent. Can I still advertise on LandAHoy?

Answer: Yes. You will still have to honor your contract with your real estate agent when the property sells. However, in the meantime, you can advertise to sell your property, and pass any leads you get from the advertising, to your real estate agent for follow-up. You may even want to contact your real estate agent and ask him or her to advertise your property on the LandAHoy web site to broaden the exposure of your property to more potential buyers.

Question: If I advertise on LandAHoy, will I have to pay a commission when the property sells?

Answer: No. LandAHoy is strictly an Internet advertising service for real estate properties, and earns its fees from charging advertisers for placing their ads or properties for sale on the LandAHoy web page.

Question: I am a real estate agent and seriously question whether or not LandAHoy represents competition for me. Can you address that issue?

Answer: The LandAHoy real estate web site is analogous to a specialty newspaper. The only difference is that it publishes electronically over the Internet, rather than on newsprint paper. There is no interest for LandAHoy to compete with the real estate agents who advertise on its publication. LandAHoy does not sell the properties of individuals or real estate people who advertise on the LandAHoy web site, nor does LandAHoy collect commissions on sales.

Question: I am a real estate sales agent working for a large real estate brokerage company which has its own real estate web page. Would I be allowed to advertise my properties on the LandAHoy web page too?

Answer: If your agreement with your principal brokerage company allows you to advertise in different publications and in different mediums, you have every reason to try to maximize the exposure of the properties you are listing for your clients. By placing ads in more than one newspaper and on more than one web site, thus maximizing exposure of your listings, the better are your chances of selling those properties much sooner.

Question: If I, as a real estate agent, advertise on the LandAHoy web site and you allow individuals to advertise there too, you are promoting my competition or encouraging individuals to list with you and not take a real estate agent to sell their properties. What about that!?

Answer: Certainly you as a real estate agent would not hesitate to advertise in a newspaper where individuals selling their own properties (FSBO’s), are also advertising. Why would you consider it any differently when advertising in an electronic medium such as the LandAHoy web page?

In fact, most likely you, as a real estate agent, also use the FSBO ads in the newspapers to generate leads to call on, to try to list those properties. LandAHoy would also represent such a source of leads for you and the management of LandAHoy would encourage you to use it as such, because, most of the time, individuals need professional help selling their properties, and second, the more success that individuals have selling their properties through real estate agents, when they were advertised on the LandAHoy web page, the more useful the LandAHoy web site will become for real estate brokers, as word spreads and more and more buyers turn to the LandAHoy web site to find properties to buy.

Question: How can I benefit by using the LandAHoy web site when I already have a web page?

Answer: LandAHoy will provide a dynamic link from your web page to the LandAHoy web page. Then, when you list a property or many properties on the LandAHoy web page, you not only get the benefit of national and local advertising by LandAHoy, and potential viewing by all of LandAHoy’s readership, but also and equally important, when your customers click on the link button on your page, all of the properties that you listed on the LandAHoy web page, show up on your web page without identifying the LandAHoy data base which produced those listings.

Therefore, if you had a static web page (i.e., just your name and company name and address, featuring the nature of your business and contact information, and could only update your page intermittently when you contacted your web programmer), you can now have a dynamic web page that updates your listings continuously, (i.e., every time you go into the LandAHoy web page to update one of your listings there, it automatically updates your listings on your web page when your customers click on the dynamic link button.

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