Q When you List your real estate with Mainstreet Brokers What can you expect?

A At Mainstreet Brokers your Real Estate needs are our number one priority. Each Real Estate Agent at Mainstreet brokers knows that great service is the minimum level that you deserve. This means that you can expect prompt, friendly, professional, knowledgeable, help with your real estate needs. We are all REALTORS®, Members of the National Association of REALTORS®, Members of the California Association of REALTORS®, and the Amador County Association of REALTORS®. We are members of the Amador county Multiple Listing Service (MLS) and MetroList® MLS.

Q Why should YOU list YOUR real estate with Mainstreet Brokers?

A Mainstreet Brokers will take a personal interest in you, your real estate needs, and marketing your real estate. Your real estate will be marketed in a creative fashion; we will sit down with you and talk out a marketing plan. Real estate marketing at Mainstreet Brokers is not a plug in the blanks form filling exercise, where some big corporate marketing department far from our community decides the best way to sell houses, but instead our local experts will brainstorm with you, or without if this is not of interest to you, the best approach to selling YOUR real estate. Just a few of the marketing tools that we can use to help you sell your real estate are:

• MLS Listings, These are the tried and true most used real estate sales tools bar nun. The way we at Mainstreet Brokers separate our use of this tool is that we list your real estate on not only the local Amador County MLS but also on MetroList®. MetroList® is the HUGE area MLS that gives instant access to people searching for real estate in Most of Northern California, Not just Amador County. Many local offices only list in the local Amador County MLS.
  
• Mainstreet Brokers web site www.mainstreetbrokersonline.com , we stay on top of the ever-growing e-marketing world. We have a very user friendly and easy to search web site with all sorts of interesting pages and tools to keep buyers eyes and minds looking at YOUR real estate listings on Mainstreet Brokers’ web site. Visitors can search the MLS, calculate loans, analyze rent vs. own, they can get tips on first time buying, new home ownership, decorating ideas, safety, pride of ownership, area history, Amador County life and times, and all the time have listings showing so they can see your real estate for sale.
  
• We blog, Blogging is turning into one of the best forms of Real Estate Markating. Not only do blogs give us the opertunity to "Talk Up" your home, they have great market penatration, in other words they get seen, by people and by the search engine spiders. We blog mostly on Active Rain and Localism.com. We stay up on this and feel that it is vital to today's real estate marketing. At the moment I am in the top 5% of California Real Estate agents on Localism.com and I am the top in both Jackson, and Amador County.
  
• Open Houses, We at Mainstreet brokers still believe in Open Houses, While some agents think that open houses are a waist of time, We like to meet new people and show real estate. Now, sometimes a property might not call for a standard open house, add in the paper, signs on the street and a plate of cookies, but instead maybe a theme showing? An invitation afare, a BBQ or something. We are always looking for that something special to sell your real estate. We also hold Brokers Open Houses, these are closed tours for REALTORS® only, they are scheduled ahead into area tours so that local REALTORS® can preview properties and keep abreast of the local market. We try to show each listing as often as possible on brokers open house tours, this lets the REALTORS® in the area know your real estate personally.
  
• Market Knowledge. We study the market all the time. We spend time searching trends and statistics, local, regional, and national. We will give you our opinion as to pricing your real estate and gladly show you how we got to the recommended asking price. If you like we will be happy to take you out to view comparable properties in the area so that you are sure of the asking price you set.
  
• Creativity, Some of the more creative marketing tools we use are things like Mainstreet Brokers sponsored Yard Sales. Mainstreet Brokers will help you throw a smashing yard sale! We will post ads, help you plan the sale, loan you equipment like tables chairs and an EZ-up canopy, supply you with signs and price stickers, help set up the sale and even come by and shop. This helps us as well as you. You get to make a few bucks off of stuff you would have to store or move anyways, you get extra incentive to clear out your house, (rooms with less things tend to look bigger, this can translate into a quicker and higher priced sale) people that might not know that they are in the market to buy a house could just fall in love with yours at your yard sale. It has happened before! People that might not be comfortable stopping at an open house could feel fine going to a yard sale. And we get to meet folks in your neighborhood in a less formal way than if we knocked on there door as REALTORS®. Not only that, But we love going to yard sales anyhow.
  
• A web site for your property. We have domains that we can host individual web pages for your property on. This give you and us the opportunity to refer people to your home’s site. This is a great, very focused way, to show your real estate alone over the web.
  
• Email auto-response for YOUR real estate. This is a system that sends back an e-flyer with all sorts of information on your property, to anyone who emails a request to "your property’s address"@hasinfoonline.com
  
  
• Your property’s Business Cards, Mainstreet Brokers will have cards printed with a picture of your real estate on the front and info on the back. These are an easy to have on hand "give away" that we, Mainstreet Brokers and you, can pass out to anybody that you come in contact with.
  
• Virtual tours. It used to be that only the high-end properties had virtual tours. Not any more. Mainstreet brokers offers virtual tours of each real estate listing we have. That way the always growing web market can get a good idea of your property even before they come out to see it. Our virtual tours are custom-made vignettes set to music, not those fish eyed spins that distort even the nicest looking homes.
  
• We also personally walk the neighborhoods of our listings talking to fellow owners and asking them if they know of friends who have shown interest in living in the area. This can be a surprising well of interest. People just like the idea of there friends living near by.

We are always on the lookout for new innovative marketing tactics so if you think of a tool that you don’t see mentioned please send it our way.