Zip codes mean very little when it comes to doing an MLS search. The majority of agents are more likely to search by Area or Schools. I have seen streets where one side of the street is in one zip code and across the street is a different zip code. This seems to be the professional consensus.

The agent made an error in proofing the entry. Perhaps you do not understand that it is often difficult to proof your own entry because your mind often reads what you thought you entered instead of what you accidentally entered. The client missed this as well so maybe you can call the client a butthead as well! Maybe it was not the agent that entered the data and whomever it is in the office that enters the data simply flipped a couple of digits! As simple data entry mistake is hardly reason to call the agent butthead nor is it reason to fire an agent. Any agent that feels this is a reason to be fired should pull their own head out of their butt!

While zip codes are a searchable field in our MLS (as well as yours) how many times to you do a search for a specific zip code.

I believe about 99% of searches are for 1. area, 2. price, 3. square feet, and 4. MLS areas.

You may want to fire your agent but that might not be an option.

If you'll read your association's listing agreement you may find the words: "sole, irrevocable, and exclusive right to sell"; that's how most exclusive right to sell listing contracts read.

An incorrect zip code is sloppy and a mistake but not a fatal one for a sale in my hardly ever humble opinion. :rolleyes:

I belong to two Multiple Listing Services both of which have their own numbering system to designate geographical areas. While I can set search parameters for any data entry field in either MLS, I know of no one that uses zip code. A school district, town (as in a political area with in a county, not a postal city), price range, characteristics of the house (GLA, bedrooms, baths, etc.) and lot size are popular search parameters.

Before you fire the agent I would suggest you ask for a Comparative Market Analysis to see if your price is positioned competitively. If you started too high (a common mistake: usually accompanied by the reasoning "I can always come down but never go up"). Even as an agent with a few years experience I made that mistake in selling my own personal residence about 7 years ago.

I'm amazed and disappointed so many agents here have no problem with a careless mistake like this.

Perhaps if it was their own residence for sale their view would be different. Regardless, I'm done here.

It's already been explained to you that practically no one does searches by zip code. What do you want? For the agent to be fined? Hung? Drawn and quartered? My Dad was a proofreader back in the 1940s. He proofread an ad for Buick. It was supposed to say "when better cars are built, Buick will build them." What it SAID was "when better cars are built, WILL Buick build them". Big difference, huh? He didn't catch it. Did YOU? We're trying to point out to you that the mistake the agent made, while a mistake, probably has NO EFFECT on any search done for a house in your town.

homeaide,

Wow! So how does it feel to be perfect and without errors!

This was a simple error that had no effect on the listing as nobody with you as the exception uses zip code for a primary search in MLS. It is time for you to come down and join the rest of use in the real world where mistakes sometimes happen.