How to Find the Buyer Agent Commission on a Listing in MLS Long Island (MLSLI) - YouTube

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In this tutorial video we will show you how to look up the Commission Amount
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being offered on a listing in MLS Long Island. The way we will go about doing
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this today is by using the Collab portal
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which is a free software provided to members of MLSLI. The URL is collab. MLS
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LI dot com. You can see it right at the top and in order to log in you'll just need
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your MLS Long Island membership number and password. This is the same login you
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would use for Stratus which is the other more antiquated listing system they
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offer where you can also check the Commission information but primarily
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it's used for uploading and editing listings. So in this case what we're
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gonna do to start is to go into search listings on the left. Now ideally you've
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actually sent the portal to your client and they've actually been using this to
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search for listings. That will make the process much easier because you can
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actually keep track of what they've been looking at in the portal directly and if
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a listing is discovered in the database by definition there's a commission of
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some sort being offered but let's assume in this case your client is searching on
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a different portal maybe it's Zillow or some other online platform and they send
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you a listing and they say hey I want to submit an offer. The first thing you need
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to do before moving forward is of course to document the commission amount.
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Now usually there is an MLS number available if a listing is in the database and the
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easiest way to look that up is just to Google the address that the client sends
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you. If you check one of the first results perhaps zillow.com. You're gonna
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see an MLS number you want to copy that MLS number and you want to paste it
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directly into the search bar and as you can see that's gonna pull up the listing
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now once you have the listing up. You can view the buyer agent commission amount
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by scrolling towards the bottom where it says under here
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buyer agency comp. Now it is possible there could be a number for broker
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agency comp or seller agency comp and we can go into this in a different training
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video but for the purposes of today's exercise you really want to document the
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buyer agency comp. So you can take a screenshot of this page or if you'd like
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you can click the drop-down on the top right and you can click on export as PDF
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you can save that down email it to your principal broker or otherwise just
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documented prior to submitting an offer. You can also email yourself a listing
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you can email it to a client there's also the option for texting the listing
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to yourself or a client as well. So that's really how we check the buyer
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agent Commission and a quick aside so in Queens keep in mind that there's
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actually sort of to broker databases in operation you have MLSLI which is Long
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Island they have at least I would say twenty five thousand members and you
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know that's gonna have a fair amount of the listings but it'll it is also
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possible that a listing could not be an MLSLI and it might be an RLS. RLS is the
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broker database operated by REBNEY Real Estate Board of New York
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that's very dominant in Manhattan Brooklyn and increasingly parts of
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Queens. So here at HomeDax we're actually a member of both MLSLI and
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RealtyMX rather RLS and so we have two softwares to check these two databases
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MLSLI is checked through collab as we've demonstrated and for our less
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listings for REBNEY we use a software called REALTYMX to search for listings.
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So if your client is looking at in Queens and a listing does not appear in
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collab you need to also check in REALTYMX to see if it's listed in RLS. Now if a
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listing is not in either one it's essential that as a next step you
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actually email the listing agent and ask them to confirm the Co broke also known
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as the buyer agent commission and you certainly don't want to proceed to
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submit an offer until you have written conformation of whatever commission is
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being offered. If you have any comments leave us a note below the video and if
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you have any ideas for other training topics we're certainly happy to
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entertain them give us a shout you can email us at [email protected] or you
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can visit our website at homedax.com and send us a message through the
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contact form and if you're an agent in New York City and you're looking for a
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