We sell houses the normal way, for one flat fee.
Wise Choices Realty is the name on the sign. The license is in the name OC Flat Fee Realty, Inc., and every agent here works under it at the same published fee.
- Licensed April 2019
- Entity DRE #02088832
- Broker DRE #01264592
Flat fee, full service
What we do.
It's a normal full-service listing, priced at one flat number you know on day one.
$12,500 under a million $19,500 per whole million from there Same list either way
That's the whole price.
You still decide what to offer the buyer's agent, and that part is yours to set. Buying works the other way around: part of the commission comes back to you at closing.
Based on a total commission model of 5%. Savings vary by property and price.
Broker, owner
Who runs the office.
Tom Schulze owns Wise Choices Realty and still works listings himself.
He has held a California real estate license since 1999 and a broker’s license since 2009. Before Wise Choices he ran one of the county’s larger private brokerages, and he has sold hundreds of homes himself and overseen thousands more as a manager. He opened this one in 2019.
There are seven agents here, Tom included, and all of them work under his license.
- Broker and Realtor, 27+ years in real estate
- Director, Orange County Association of Realtors, 2006–2010
- Broker / Owner, Wise Choices Realty · DRE #01264592
379 sales closed, and we publish what the seller kept on every one.
Measured against a five percent total commission, less the flat fee that was in force when each home closed.
In his own words
A note from Tom.
The thing that never sat right with me was the math.
Two houses on the same street, identical work on both, and the seller at $1.9 million pays nearly three times what the seller at $700,000 pays. I asked about that for years and never got an answer that held up.
So I priced it the way I'd want it priced. Charge a reasonable number, do the job really well, and don't nickel-and-dime anybody. I'm not going to make a killing on every sale. That's okay, I want more sales.
Our mission all the way through is to make sure your house shows its best before the photos even come.
— Tom
Tom Schulze
Broker, OC Flat Fee Realty, Inc.
DRE #01264592
Wise is Flat Fee & Full Service
One flat fee to list, and part of the commission back when you buy. Full service either way.
The people we work with on every sale — escrow, photography — are on our partners page.
OC Flat Fee Realty, Inc. · Aliso Viejo, CA · DRE #02088832