Assist-2-Sell Real Estate Company Adds 18 Franchises

Assist-2-Sell®, 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™" 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 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, 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, 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.; Frederick, Md.; Las Vegas, Nev.; Limerick, Pa.; Moncton, Nova Scotia, Canada; Mt. Pocono, Pa.; O'Fallon, Mo.; Orange, Calif.; Pueblo, Colo.; St. Charles, Ill.; San Antonio, Texas; Stamford, Conn.; and South Lake Tahoe, Calif.