North Metro MLS Board- over 1700 Realtor Members Plus 300 Agent Affiliates
24 Hour access to Information and Photos of your home for Twin Cities’ Buyers

Why is this important to you?

Within 72 hours of listing with Ray Lopez, all board members will have access to information about your property. At any time, should any of these members have a buyer looking for a property similar to yours, they would have immediate access to all the features and benefits of your home. Due to the fact that 80 to 90 percent of all buyers are currently working with a Realtor we want to immediately expose your home to these agents for their potential buyers.

Many of the calls we take are buyers calling on a property that is sold.

Why is this important to you?

The fact that they called is an indicator that they are in the market for a home, we realize that YOUR home may be THAT home. We always offer our current inventory of home listings to our buyers first, before confusing them with the stock of MLS listings

Our Realtor buyer specialists are working with many buyers looking for homes RIGHT NOW.
Weekly listing promotion and Buyer Networking at Sales Meetings.
Direct Agent-to-Agent communication often Results in the Sale of a HOME like yours.

Why is this important to you?

Our company has earned the respect, and built a reputation and relationships with almost all of the top Realtors and companies in the area.. We network through these channels to promote each others listings and buyers to each other and their companies and affiliates a group of the most committed, professional and successful agents in the marketplace. As a team, we work together to get properties sold and that means more professionals exposed to your property, which results in more qualified buyers seeing your property.

Virtually all of our advertising displays a 1800 toll free number for buyers to call on any of our properties for sale where they can hear a fully automated prerecorded message of your home and its amenities. When they do, we will be automatically and immediately notified of the call, the buyers name and phone number, the source of their call and whether they are standing outside your home right now while making that call. The buyer may press the zero key on their phone to be directly connected to our office live, or we’ll call them back and ask if they have further interest in the home. If there is no further interest in that home, or it is sold, we can sell them another one of our listings-now that’s powerful.

At any given time our firm has 30-100 properties on the market. Just imagine the difference that kind of marketing can make-Where all of our sellers help sell each others homes…

Why is this important to you?

We not only want to expose your home to agents with current buyers but also gather information from industry experts so that I can provide you with additional feedback as to the marketability of your home.

Determining and pinpointing the correct asking price of your home is a science-We are in the marketplace everyday, walking buyers through the homes currently on the market which will soon be your competition.

Why is this important to you?

The price you ask for your home has everything to do with whether your home will sell in a reasonable time or even at all. Pinpointing this price is critical because if we ask too much, the marketing effort can go stale and you may have to reduce the price of your home anyway. Asking too little has the obvious consequences. Any one can simply guess and compare, but we analyze, and remember due to the volume we do we have probably been in your neighbors home which is your current competition. We consider many other factors which are not considered in a standard CMA.

• Local Minneapolis area Internet Access
• World Wide Web Access
• RE/MAX Online
• Broker Reciprocity
• Your home advertised on Virtually all top real estate web sites-even our competition!
• .com Information and E-mail

Why is this important to you?

Our company has a special marketing effort relationship with many other top real estate companies in Minnesota to market your home in a joint effort with all these other companies, this is called broker reciprocity, and it will result in your home being marketed by these companies on their web sites as well. Today’s buyers are using the information super-highway to find their dream homes.  We provide a detailed listing of our properties for sale and cooperate with other brokers to make sure your home sells.  We will always stay on the cutting edge when it comes to marketing your home.

• Up to 100 Daily Outgoing Contacts per day.
• Data Base of hundreds of buyers
• Cold Calling Move Up Neighborhoods
• Internet prospecting
• Professional telemarketing
• FSBO, Renters, Expired Listings
• Past client/Referral business

Why is this important to you?

There are two ways to find a buyer...1. To sit in the office and wait for a buyer to call the office.  OR  2. Take time each day and go out into the field looking for a buyer. The first option is a function of the market and LUCK. The second option is a matter of numbers.  Everyday our team works the numbers by calling potential buyers and sellers. Active prospecting allows us to control the market rather than waiting for the market to do our job for us. The only variable the market determines is the number of contacts I need to make to my previous clients, sphere of influence, renters, FSBOs and past prospects before I can generate a potential buyer for your home.

We advertise hundreds of properties generating many buyer calls and it only takes one. Our ultimate marketing system generates up to 36 home buyer leads

Why is this important to you?

There are hundreds of homes listed in the many sources of advertising and it only takes one home to attract the eye of a potential buyer.  That buyer will call the office and be qualified as to their needs and shown other properties like yours until the buyer has chosen the perfect home.  It is the hundreds of homes advertised that benefit you, in addition to the advertising on your home-This is just one of the forms of networking taking place in our office.

• Updates as to the current market conditions and how they affect YOUR property.
• Updates and feedback as to what agents and buyers say about your home.
• Updates as to marketing efforts in process to expose your home.

Why is this important to you?

For a successful sale to take place all parties must be educated. You have important decisions that need to be made and it is our commitment to make sure you have all the information necessary to make good decisions.

• Deals are made or lost during only hours of negotiation.
• Ray Lopez has attended SEMINARS on NEGOTIATION SKILLS.
• Buyer’s Agency is for buyers... Ray Lopez spends his time marketing and negotiating on your behalf.

Why is this important to you?

It is critical that you realize marketing your home is only half the battle.  With thousands of homes to choose from, most buyers have second, third and even forth choices in which the home meets all their needs. Keeping your buyer interested while getting you top dollar is an ART and this SKILL is not common to all agents.

Coordinating with the Attorneys and Mortgage Officers is a job in itself.
Because of our STAFF we are always on top of and available for any action necessary to get our deal all the way to the closing table.

Why is this important to you?

Believe it or not, the attorneys and loan officers make much less on our transaction than we do. The incentive to see that the Ball Is Not Dropped is not there in many cases.  We have to monitor every aspect of the closing daily and agents who work alone cannot possibly give your file the same level of attention that an entire team of professionals can give.