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Finding your dream home
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By Justin Hunter
There is a lot of available information concerning the
real estate industry. Mortgage and real estate agents articles
are plastered all over the Internet. But everyone assumes
that it is easy to find the home. In fact, finding the
actual home you plan on living in for a large portion
of your life is usually more time consuming and stressful
than the actual
mortgage and buying process combined.
There are so many factors you have to consider before
even picking the town you plan on living in. Considering
that you are going to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars
over 30 years, finding the right home should not be taken
lightly.
Steven Gillman’s article, “How To Find A House”
posted in ezinearticles.com provides helpful tips and
suggestions to ensure you are happy with you new
home.
“How do you find a house? Let's assume that you
have already chosen the town in which you will be buying
a home. Should you go online and start looking? Should
you call a real
estate agent first? Look in the papers?”
While you will or should end up doing all of these things
eventually, determining what to do first is important.
The first thing you should probably do is look in real
estate guides, newspapers and online real estate listings
for the area you are interested in. This is just to give
you a prospective idea of where (what neighborhood) you
would like to live.
Next, you should take some time to determine what is most
important to you in a house.
“Start with minimum requirements you need to be
happy in the home. You can upgrade expectations later
in the process if your budget allows for it, and your
real estate agent will be pushing you to buy more home
in any case. Write down what you are looking for, the
price limit, and make a copy for the real estate agent.”
That brings us to a very critical step; finding a good
real estate agent. If you do not have any friends or family
with referrals, the best thing you can do to find an ethical
and successful agent is to ask a lot of questions. You
can also look in real estate publications and find an
agent that is associated with the type of properties that
interest you.
Now you want to make sure your real estate agent sets
up six or seven homes to view and tour, not just an open
house. It will be most beneficial to have the owner there
to ask more personal questions your agent will not have
the answer to. The specific homes should be based on your
criteria, not your agent’s.
“When
you arrive in town for the showings, first drive by all
the homes you will be shown (if this is practical). Often
you can eliminate several of them without wasting time
going inside. Let the agent know you won't need to see
those houses. If you live in the town you are buying a
house in, do this step before the agent sets up the listings.”
Take your time. Be prepared to walk through over a dozen
homes before you find the right one. And most of all,
listen to your own personal judgment.
“Remember that unless your agent is specifically
a buyer's agent, he works for the seller.
Anything you say may be used against you. Once you choose
a home to make an offer on, his job as a seller's agent
is to try to get you to pay as much as possible, and to
pass on any information he obtains from you to the seller.
Good negotiating skills on your part come into play at
this point.” |
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