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Once her home was on the MLS, “It went from showing once or twice a week to showing two or three times a day every day,” said the massage therapist who now lives in Tega Cay, S.C.

The nation’s more than 800 MLS sites have long been the most effective tools for selling homes and the primary means for real estate agents to protect their commissions, which last year totaled upward of $60 billion. The MLS sites are private and controlled by the real estate industry. The only way on them is through an agent.

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