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get the best possible home for you and your family. Our Not-on-Net home list allows you to see information
that other home shoppers are simply not getting!
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Not-on-Internet Homes
Were you aware that as many as 1500 or more active home listings in San Diego County are NOT displayed on the Internet?
If you have ever seen a home for sale and then run a search at home and could not find it on the Internet, this is probably why! 1500 or more homes in one metro area is a lot of homes! If you are shopping for a home, then you know how important having ALL of the information is for
deciding which homes to see, what to offer, etc. Though we can't (and neither can other agents' web sites) display these
listings on this site, we CAN give you a private link to the San Diego MLS system to see them!
QUESTION: How do you get to see the list of these homes?
ANSWER: Register for an account, then log in, and come back to this page.
You SHOULD want to look at these homes. Why? Because they are not being
marketed as aggressively as other homes! Not being displayed on the Internet and not being
searchable on the search engines means fewer people see these homes! Less marketing usually means
fewer showings, fewer buying competitors, and fewer offers, and any offer can get more
consideration!
See the Frequently Asked Questions below the links for more information about why all
agents are prohibited from displaying these homes on their web sites.
Once you log in and return to this page, you will have a form.
Just check the checkboxes, and click "Go!" You'll get an email with links to all of the
lists of homes that you've requested.
| Single Family Detached | Approx. Listings |
| Oceanside/Vista | 26 |
| Bonsall Fallbrook | 8 |
| Carlsbad/Encinitas/Rancho Santa Fe | 14 |
| Sol. Beach/Del Mar/Carmel Valley | 4 |
| San Marcos/Escondido/Valley Center | 32 |
| Poway/RB/Scripps Ranch | 15 |
| La Jolla/PB/OB/Coronado | 7 |
| East of I-5 | 10 |
| Central San Diego | 17 |
| San Diego and South of I-8 | 25 |
| Chula Vista/Bonita/Nat'l City/IB | 52 |
| San Diego East | 32 |
| El Cajon/Ramona | 18 |
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| Twinhome/Townhome/Condo/Attached | Approx. Listings |
| Oceanside/Vista | 16 |
| Bonsall Fallbrook | 0 |
| Carlsbad/Encinitas/Rancho Santa Fe | 9 |
| Sol. Beach/Del Mar/Carmel Valley | 6 |
| San Marcos/Escondido/VC | 17 |
| Poway/RB/Scripps Ranch | 10 |
| La Jolla/PB/OB/Coronado | 11 |
| East of I-5 | 10 |
| Central San Diego | 18 |
| San Diego and South of I-8 | 39 |
| Chula Vista/Bonita/Nat'l City/IB | 47 |
| San Diego East | 3 |
| El Cajon/Ramona | 5 |
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These updates were last done on August 6, 2010. Counts are estimates as the home count can change.
Efforts were taken to exclude mobile homes, manufactured homes, and modular homes.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Not displayable on the Internet? What is this all about?
A: The Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) sued the National Association of Realtors (NAR)
over certain policies relating to their handling of the Multiple List Systems (MLS) across the country.
DOJ and NAR settled the law suit, and part of the settlement allows homeowners to exclude their homes
from display on the Internet! (See Sandicor's VOW Rules Document.)
Q: Who is deciding to keep the home from being marketed?
A: Ultimately, this is the homeowner's decision. In our experience, however, most homeowners take the
agent's recommendation, and if an recommends to avoid a particular marketing strategy, then many homeowners are
unwilling to demand otherwise from their agent.
Q: Why would an agent want to keep it from being displayed on the Internet?
A: We suppose that, theoretically speaking, there might be a good reason for not marketing a home on the Internet, but none occur to us.
However, a number of nefarious reasons come to mind; it is a sad, but possibly true fact, that the reason that some
of these homes are not being marketed because the agent has recommended exclusion from the Internet to serve his/her
own interests. For example, a listing agent may not have a buyer for the property but hopes to find one before
any other agent brings a buyer, and thereby earn both commissions. By restricting the marketing, it slows down
the process in which people find out about a home, and the listing agent can gain some time while trying
to locate a buyer.
Q: Is excluding the home improper?
A: In the past, agents, not homeowners, got to decide if their home would have restricted display on the Internet.
According to the California Association of Realtors, this was the core of the DOJ lawsuit. CAR states, in pertinent part:
This issue was at the heart of the DOJ lawsuit. Former VOW policy allowed brokers to withhold some or all of their listings from other broker's VOWs. No more. Now the only Opt Outs allowed are for sellers who wish to withhold their listing or property address from display on the Internet and who have executed a Seller Opt Out. The seller also has a right to request that a VOW's comments, blogs or automated market value estimate about its listing be disabled or discontinued (although the VOW can state that those features have been disabled) "at the request of the seller." (See: http://www.car.org/legal/mls/summary-status-doj-nar-vow/.)
Consequently, it is completely proper, as long as the homeowner signs off on the decision. What the DOJ lawsuit probably did not contemplate is that,
in practice, it is the listing agent that presents the listing agreement to the home owner and asks them to sign it. The listing agent may not explain
the agreement, and the homeowner (who is often overwhelmed with other concerns during the home selling process) may not ask any questions but simply sign
the agreement. For our agents, not displaying a home for sale on the Internet is unwise in our judgment (and the vast majority of agents and homeowners agree
with us). In general, we ALWAYS recommend to home owners to get as much marketing as possible. If there are other concerns like security, dogs, etc., then those concerns can be addressed with the listing agent attending the showings. Ask any salesperson or CEO - marketing is essential!
Q: How many homes fall into this Not-on-Net category?
A: It varies by time and location. We have run searches on the MLS data, and the percentage has been over 10% of the total detached and attached homes (not including modular, manufactured, and mobile homes).
Q: How are you allowed to this form for us to use?
A: The local MLS has interpreted the rules such that it is not bound by the restrictions that apply to the agents.
This makes sense to us because the MLS system has ALL the listings and agents subscribe in order to provide those listings and other
information. If a homeowner does not want this, the homeowner can ask that the listing be excluded from the MLS entirely. This means
that the MLS can create a page that is displayed in a web browser, but the agents cannot.
The MLS's business rules don't allow us to give you the links in a web browser, but we are allowed to email them to you
once we receive your request.
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