You never owe a commission you didn't earn.

Our base listing fee is 3%, earned only when your home actually sells — that is the Get Sold side. The optional Get Ready side is a separate up-front Pre-Listing Make-Ready fee for getting the property market-ready, earned on its own. The Make-Ready fee depends on the scope of work, so your Fortified agent sets it in writing before any work begins. Call (508) 671-7228 and we will map both numbers for your property.

No. The Get Ready fee — the Pre-Listing Make-Ready fee — is a separately earned service fee for the work of getting a property ready: advising, coordinating vendors, estimates, a repair punch list, and the disclosure checklist. It is paid up front, and it is not contingent on the property listing or selling. The Get Sold commission is our 3% base listing fee, a different number entirely, earned only when your home actually sells.

You keep your options open. If you list and the property sells, you pay the Get Ready fee plus the 3% Get Sold commission at closing. If you cancel before Get Sold begins, you pay only the Get Ready fee and any approved vendor costs — no commission. There is a written cancellation window before listing, confirmed up front. The whole point of the model is simple: you never owe a commission you did not earn.

Yes — it is our in-network loyalty credit. If you list and have a successful sale with Fortified, then buy your next home with us within 12 months, we credit 0.5% on your buy-side commission. So instead of 3% on the purchase, it is 2.5%. The credit lands on the buy, not the sale, and one team carries you from selling your old home to closing on the new one.

That is a separate decision you make, not something hardcoded into Fortified’s fee. Whether and how much to offer a buyer’s broker is your election, and your Fortified agent walks you through the trade-offs in plain English — how it affects your net and your pool of buyers — so you decide with the full picture before the property goes to market.

It is the work that gets a property genuinely ready for market. Because we are a full property-management company with an in-house construction license and our own crews, we can do the work, not just point at it: vendor walk-throughs, repair estimates, a punch list of what moves the needle, and the disclosure checklist so nothing surfaces late. You decide what gets done. Vendor costs are yours unless we agree in writing to advance them.

Everything from launch to close: professional photography and video, the public listing, open houses, signage, and staging support — then managing the negotiation on price and terms, coordinating with your attorney and the buyer’s side, managing contingencies, and getting you to a clean closing. With Fortified you also get a team that stays available after the sale. One 3% base listing fee, one team, launch to close.

No. The Get Ready fee and the 3% Get Sold commission are Fortified’s representation fees. Closing costs — your real estate attorney, recording fees, any agreed concessions or credits, and prorations — are separate and depend on the deal. We do not invent those numbers; your closing attorney provides the real figures, and your Fortified agent makes sure you see an estimate of your net proceeds early instead of a surprise at the closing table.