Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Uberlisting is an independent, online service where real estate browsers, buyers, renters, sellers and owners connect.

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Yes. By default, Uberlisting submits all listings to Google Base for Real Estate, Oodle, Trulia and Zillow. Potential buyers who find your properties on these other sites--representing four of the top real estate search services in North America--will be directed to your uberlistings. Better yet, whenever you update the information for any of your uberlistings, Uberlisting will update that same information in the other services. As always, should you prefer that we not publish your listings on the other sites, they can be excluded (or included) either individually or by default using Uberlisting's self-directed admin screens.

The choice to use Uberlisting is not a choice to abandon all the other things you're already doing. Uberlisting was designed to make it very easy for our members to refer to their existing sites from their uberlistings. Also, great effort was expended to make it simple to link to uberlistings from other sites and publications. Even more powerful and useful tools for those with their own web sites are on the proverbial drawing board or in actual development at this time. Your uberlistings will drive more traffic to your other sites. From a marketing standpoint, we also believe that there is no such thing as too much positive publicity for marketed real estate. If the property is for sale or for lease, we believe that an uberlisting is always a value add proposition.

First of all, don't forget that you are (or soon will be) paying this person or organization to sell or lease out your property. You are in control. If you like what you see here at Uberlisting, do him or her a favor and tell your real estate professional about Uberlisting. It is your right to ask that your property be uberlisted.

No, Uberlisting does not pull property information of any kind directly from the MLS (Multiple Listing Service) system. Most uberlistings created by real estate professionals, however, are for properties that can also be found in the MLS system. We encourage uberlisters to add an MLS number to an uberlisting if one exists, as an aid to potential buyers.

Uberlisting is a voluntary service of the larger free market. We only feature those properties whose owners want to pay for uberlistings. All other listings on the site are provided by our trusted listings providers. Perhaps we're biased, but we think those listings look great, too. To our browsers, that translates to higher quality listings with more pictures, better descriptions and an uncommon amount of TLC behind each listing. Why not be a good neighbor and tell her about Uberlisting?

Perhaps a better question is should you? We made our listing prices low so that marketing your property wouldn't put a big dent in your budget. Why not create an uberlisting in addition to your other listings? We believe that there is no such thing as too much positive publicity for marketed real estate.

Absolutely. Vacation rental owners and, yes, even bed and breakfast owners can benefit from an uberlisting more than just about any other group. A single uberlisting can be used to market a bed and breakfast or rental property year-round. Think about it...Uberlisting could potentially be responsible for renting out your vacation rental to a different person every day for a year, all for one low price! Further, if you don't already have a web site for your bed and breakfast, an uberlisting (and the uberlister home page that comes with each Uberlisting account) could be all you need.

Test the waters. There is nothing binding about an Uberlisting. If you receive an offer, you do not have to sell. Create an uberlisting and don't be shy about asking what you think your property is worth. Gauge interest and test your asking price, for the small price of a single uberlisting. After all, it's much easier to turn down a great, informal offer for your property when you don't want to sell than it is to deal with no offers when you do have to sell.

Uberlisting will be launching its commercial listing services in the summer of 2009. Our commercial listings will include reports, listing pages and marketing materials designed especially for the commercial real estate audience. In most situations, however, a standard uberlisting can be created for a commercial property with no special steps required beyond choosing "Other" as the property type.

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Uberlisting accepts Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover cards. You may also pay using your PayPal account and the numerous payment options it enables.

No. The initial listing/sign up fee is a one-time expense.

Your additional listing rate will not be affected if we raise our rates. Further, if we lower our rates for the membership plan to which you belong, your rates will also be lowered. It's just our way of saying "thank you" to our long-term uberlisters.

Upgrades from the standard membership plan to the premium and professional membership plans are full price, since the standard plan is a one-price-fits-all plan. Upgrades from premium membership to professional membership cost only the difference in price between the sign up fees at the time the upgrade is made.

Most new features and enhancements to Uberlisting will be made available to existing users free of charge, automatically and with no additional actions required by the user (for public features) or uberlister. Professional members will always have access to the full spectrum of Uberlisting membership features.

We like to think that every Uberlisting property is already showcased. Still, we recognize that many would like to feature their properties more prominently on the Uberlisting site and in Uberlisting search results. So...we're going to be offering those capabilities very soon.