As your Realtor, we’ll meet you at your convenience and talk with you about the process and the steps involved in buying a home. If you have any questions or concerns, we’re there to answer them. We’ll help you develop criteria to make your search efforts more effective. Once the criteria has been established, we’ll set up an MLS search that will immediately send you properties that match your criteria. We also set up a web portal that houses all of these listings, allowing you to mark your favorites, rejects, etc.
After picking your favorites and a day you want to see them, we’ll really get to work. We put the homes in the order best traveled, figure out how long it’s going to take to view each home and what the driving time is between properties, then call to set up the appointments. During showings, you can concentrate on floor plans, fit and feel, as we are constantly on the lookout for water stains, foundation cracks, and other potential problems. Experience has taught us to look closely, and we do.
Once you’ve found your dream home, your Realtor will do some research. How long has it been on the market? Why are they selling? What did they pay for it originally and what updates or renovations were made since then? Based on this information, you’ll write an offer. More accurately, your Realtor will write the offer for you. We’ve got all of the contracts and addendums you will ever need to purchase a home, and we know how and when to use them. We will ask you all the questions necessary to make the offer valid and legal, specifying where to initial and on which dotted line to sign. We’ll go over each and every paragraph, encapsulating them for you into bite-size pieces. We’ll present the offer to the listing agent, who will present it to the seller. Then we’ll negotiate on your behalf.
Once your offer is accepted and becomes a full-fledged contract, we’ve got a number of home inspectors that we can recommend and you can trust. We’ll schedule the inspections based on your availability, and be there right with you. Then it is on to closing. You have a problem? You have a question or concern? You want to find a good painter? You want to view the home one more time to take photos and measurements? Give us a call.
About a week or so before closing, we’ll remind you to have your utilities either turned on or switched over to your name. We’ll also be in touch with the listing agent and lender to see that things are running smoothly. We’ll receive the settlement statement from the closing agent and review it for accuracy.
Our job is not done at closing. It never really is. We are always available to answer questions and help solve problems. And when it comes time to sell your home, we’re there for you too!