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What is ListWithFreedom.com?
List With Freedom is a flat fee MLS listing service. It helps FSBO sellers get listed on the MLS without working with a licensed real estate agent. The company offers four packages ranging from $89 to $295.
Key takeaways
- We rate it 4.0/5
- Affordable plans
- No assistance from an agent
Bottom line: Is List With Freedom worth it?
List With Freedom is geared toward highly experienced FSBO sellers who know how the process works and don’t need assistance from a licensed agent. It’s worth the price if you want a bare-bones MLS listing platform. It’s not ideal, however, for sellers who need guidance or who are selling FSBO for the first time. (Learn more about our methodology.)
Quality of service
List With Freedom offers all the essential services FSBO sellers need to list and market their homes. The most affordable plans don’t allow enough photos to properly market your home, but you can add max photos to any plan for cheap.
Marketing
You’ll get listed on just one MLS and on hundreds of different real estate websites (including Zillow, Realtor.com, Home.com, and Trulia). However, you won’t get any additional marketing assistance (like social media ads).
Cost
List With Freedom offers the lowest price we’ve seen for an MLS listing. The Silver plan costs $89, and maximum photos cost an extra $99, for a total of $188.
Customer experience
There are many complaints about the company’s lack of communication, with some sellers waiting long periods of time for answers.
User friendliness
Users praised the platform for its speed. There were, however, numerous complaints about implementing changes, uploading and signing documents, and navigating around the seller dashboard.
List With Freedom vs. top competitors
| FFMLS company | Locations | Avg. customer review | Listing fee |
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| Beycome | AL, CA, CT, FL, GA, MN, NC, SC | 4.4 | $99-499 + 1% |
| Fizber | Nationwide | 3.9 | $295 |
| Homecoin | CA, FL, GA, MI, MO, NY, NC, SC, TN, VA, WI | 4.9 | $95+ |
| Houzeo | Nationwide | 4.9 | $199-999+ |
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Under any plan, you’ll be listed on your local MLS and on major real estate websites (like Zillow and Realtor.com). You can update or change your listing information at any time for free, and you’ll also enjoy reasonably long listing terms (6 to 12 months).
List With Freedom isn’t well suited for first-time FSBO sellers. It does offer closing and negotiating assistance but at outrageously marked-up prices. Another major drawback is that its two most affordable plans don’t allow enough photos: Silver will give you one photo per listing, while Gold will give you six.
📸 Pro tip: Add “maximum photos” for $99 to the Silver plan for the best value.
Marketing (how it works)
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List With Freedom markets your home by listing on a local MLS and on hundreds of other real estate websites, such as Zillow, Trula, Homes.com, and Realtor.com. It’ll also syndicate your listing across the websites of major real estate brokerages, like Keller Williams and RE/MAX.
It’s important to note that each plan includes one MLS listing, not multiple. If you want your home to be listed on more than one MLS, you’ll pay $99 for each additional listing. This is significant for FSBO sellers located around more than one major real estate market (for example, living between St. Paul and Minneapolis), as you’ll likely want to be listed on as many as you can.
Sellers should also be aware that marketing will fall solely on them. List With Freedom won’t help you craft your listing description, get professional photography, stage your home, or help find buyers. The company doesn’t offer any advertising packages either (such as social media or paid ads on Google).
Cost
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List With Freedom offers the cheapest plans for any MLS listing services we’ve seen. If you want a reasonable number of photos (six or more), expect to pay at least $188. This would be a Silver plan ($89) with maximum photos added ($99). That’s slightly below the range expected of an MLS listing service (roughly $200–300).
The fact that you can make free unlimited changes gives it a leg up on other FSBO companies, who typically charge a fee for each session of edits. But beyond these essentials, List With Freedom’s pricing can be wildly overinflated: the same services can be found on other MLS sites for cheaper rates. If you want to cancel your listing, you won’t have to pay a fee, but you won’t get a refund either.
Some List With Freedom add-on services:
| Comparative market analysis (CMA) | $195 |
| Video walk-through | $40 |
| Contract preparation | $595 |
| Transaction management services | $1,995 |
| Lockbox | $45 |
| Showings scheduler | $59 |
| Professional yard sign | $49 |
| Maximum photos | $99 |
| Open houses | $100 |
| Additional MLS closing | $99 |
Customer experience
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Reviews on List With Freedom are mixed but generally positive. Most reviewers agree that listing your home was the easy part: getting help from List With Freedom (or an answer to an email) was much harder. The company has a 4.3 rating on TrustPilot and a 3.2 on Google.
User friendliness
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You have to pay up front to test-drive the listing platform, but we found the following themes in customer reviews:
Nearly all reviewers, even the negative ones, agreed that the listing process is very fast: most properties are listed within 48 hours. But changes take a long time to implement, with some reviewers complaining that it took up to 8 days before their revisions were public.
There were frequent complaints over how cumbersome it was to get the right documents, sign them, and have them approved, as well as that the dashboard was clumsy.
Next steps
If you’re an experienced FSBO seller, then List With Freedom might be a good choice for you. For a reasonable price, you can get listed on an MLS and have your home marketed on numerous real estate websites.
We recommend that first-time FSBO sellers look for a company with a bit more guidance. At the very least, take a moment to compare List With Freedom with other high quality brands.
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Methodology
We evaluated the value and quality of FFMLS and FSBO listing services based on five core criteria.
Quality of service
FFMLS companies should provide basic services, including:
- Listing to your local MLS
- Pushing listings to sites like Zillow and Trulia
- Maximum allowable photos
- Unlimited free listing changes
- Keeping a listing active until you cancel or close on your home
We noted add-on services that actually help you sell and manage your sale, like professional photography or an online dashboard. We didn’t give credit for fluffy offerings, such as video tours that are just photo montages or listings on Craigslist.
Marketing
We assessed how each company’s services actually makes your listing visible to buyers, compared with the MLS, which is the baseline. Additional marketing services (via social media, digital ads, etc.) count to higher visibility, as does the company’s website traffic.
Cost
We compared pricing tiers for services with baseline national averages and other brands.
Customer experience
Our evaluation…
- Aggregated customer reviews from across the web and created a weighted average rating
- Ran reviews through a sentiment analysis program to identify key themes
- Checked for complaints with the Better Business Bureau
User friendliness
We checked how easy the company app or portal was to use, and how easy it was to upload and manage the listing.
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