Assist-2-Sell: North America's Largest Discount Real Estate Company Adds 18 Franchises.Business Editors Assist-2-Sell(R), North America's largest residential discount real estate company, added 18 new franchises in the second quarter of 2002. The expansion brings the total number of Assist-2-Sell franchises in the USA and Canada to 193, increasing the total by 10.28 percent. Assist-2-Sell franchises provide all services offered by traditional real estate brokers, for a single, low flat fee. Assist-2-Sell's "Full Service With $avings(TM)" process enables home sellers to save thousands of dollars in commissions compared to paying 6 percent. Assist-2-Sell cofounders and co-owners Mary LaMeres-Pomin and Lyle E. Martin announced the additions today. Most new franchises have opened; they'll all be open by early August. Assist-2-Sell projects it'll have at least 500 locally owned and operated franchises in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and Canada by the fourth quarter of 2005. "We continue to grow in response to consumers who are tired of paying high fees for selling homes," LaMeres-Pomin and Martin said in a joint statement. "Besides saving lots of money, home sellers like Assist-2-Sell because in many markets we serve, the average home sold through us sells faster than those using traditional brokers." Owners of new Assist-2-Sell franchises attended the company's training school at its corporate headquarters in Reno, Nev. The company requires its franchise owners to be experienced residential real estate brokers. New franchises include the first Assist-2-Sell in Beverly Hills Beverly Hills, city (1990 pop. 31,971), Los Angeles co., S Calif., completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles; inc. 1914. The largely residential city is home to many motion-picture and television personalities. , Calif., where owners of multi-million-dollar homes will be able to use the company to sell their properties for a flat fee of a few thousand dollars -- rather than commissions of tens of thousands of dollars that traditional brokers charge in that community. A privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , Assist-2-Sell was founded in 1987. The company is able to charge low fees thanks to its high-volume system, backed by an experienced team of real estate professionals that handle everything from advertising and showing the home to overseeing the closing process. Besides Beverly Hills, the new Assist-2-Sell franchises are in: Bradenton, Fla.; Collierville, Tenn.; Columbus, Neb.; Eugene, Ore.; Fishers, Ind IND Investigational new drug Therapeutics A status assigned by the FDA to a drug before allowing its use in humans, exempting it from premarketing approval requirements so that experimental clinical trials may be conducted. See Phase 1.2, 3 studies, Sponsorship. .; Frederick, Md.; Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , Nev.; Limerick Limerick, city, Republic of Ireland Limerick, city (1991 pop. 56,083), seat of Co. Limerick, SW Republic of Ireland, at the head of the Shannon estuary. The city has a port with two docks. , Pa.; Moncton, Nova Scotia Nova Scotia (nō`və skō`shə) [Lat.,=new Scotland], province (2001 pop. 908,007), 21,425 sq mi (55,491 sq km), E Canada. Geography , Canada; Mt. Pocono, Pa.; O'Fallon, Mo.; Orange, Calif.; Pueblo, Colo.; St. Charles, Ill.; San Antonio, Texas “San Antonio” redirects here. For other uses, see San Antonio (disambiguation). San Antonio is the second most populous city in Texas, the third most populous metropolitan area in Texas, and is the seventh most populous city in the United States. As of the 2006 U.S. ; Stamford, Conn.; and South Lake Tahoe, Calif. |
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