A La Carte Real Estate

I used A La Carte to sell my home. They are a subsidiary of a full service brokerage called «Innovative Realty», but this review is just for their independently named mere posting service.
Basically they will get your house listed on the Multiple Listing Service (MLS)
and
(a popular listing service in Nova Scotia) without you having to hire an agent, for a flat fee.
It was roughly $ 500 to just do the listing with 6 pictures, and $ 800 bucks for the listing, a lawn sign (with your own phone number on it), and 16 pictures.
To give you a sense of the savings, if I had hired an agent at the standard 2.5% on a $ 300,000 transaction, it would have cost me $ 7500 + HST. I spent $ 800 + GST and that’s it, so $ 6700 more dollars in my pocket on the sale, and all I had to do was field a few calls, leave a lockbox on the doorknob, and sit there for a few open houses. (Wayyyyy less than $ 6700 worth of work by almost anyone’s standards.)
The customer service agent (Thelma?) was really helpful and responsive, she even gave out a little free advice from time to time.
The lawn sign was of very high quality and probably worth it if you’re in a high visibility spot (and it also makes you not look too amateurish).
Whenever I requested changes (new photos, open house dates etc.) they happened quickly and efficiently.
They also profile your home on their own website included in the price. It gives you a link to work with if you want to sell on social media or forward an email, but I doubt it gets much traffic in and of itself.
If you want to sell your own place, and you’re savvy enough that all you need is a professional looking sign and exposure on MLS/realtor.ca/viewpoint, in my research a-​la-​carte is best bang for your buck for a mere posting in Nova Scotia, and I had a very positive experience with them.
P. S. If you’re curious about using them, but think (like I did) that you can just use kijiji for free, we concurrently ran a kijiji ad, and A-​La-​Carte ran one for us too. I think in the 5 weeks it was listed I got maybe one email. Much to my surprise, kijiji seems kind of useless for this. It seems there’s no way around having to spend some money to get on the MLS to be successful)