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5 Secrets To Finding The Best Realtor When Buying A Home
hen buying a home here need to live in. This will be
are 5 things you should paramount in how you go about
do to get prepared, and finding the best Realtor to help
find the best Realtor to help you you. If two of you are going to
find that dream home: buy the home, each of you should
write a "top 10" separately.
Decide on your needs After you're both done, compare
Write down a list of what your notes, and agree that any
needs are for your next home criteria that match are
search. Be sure to differentiate "must-haves". Everything else can
between your wants and be negotiated. My wife and I did
needs. For example; Do you this two years before our last
really need that 3 move, and it settled a lot of
car garage, or is it just a want? would-be arguments about what
It could mean the difference home was right for us. When we
between finding 50 homes with a eventually found our dream-home,
2-car garage that meet your every single one of those
needs, and only 5 with a 3-car criteria was met! Sit down right
garage. (It may be different now, and write your list, and
where you are, but in the Denver keep it for future reference.
real estate market, you'll likely
cut your options by 90% to 95% by Find a Realtor who will best
requiring a 3 car garage vs. a serve you, and don't settle for
2-car garage unless your budget anything less
is over about $500,000.) Start with how you find
your Realtor. If you are
Establish a "top 10" list of "internet friendly", and do a lot
your wants. via email and the web, the
Be sure that number one on that last place you should look
list is what city (or cities) you for a Realtor is in the phone
book, or classified ad section of Contact less, and you might not
the newspaper. The agents you have enough "candidates" to make
will find there most likely an informed decision. Contact
center their business around the more, and you will get overloaded
phone, and you'll find that many with agents constantly checking
of them might not even check in with you in order to get your
email except every few days. On business. (This is the largest
the other hand, if you don't problem buyers have when calling
regularly check email, and aren't a dozen or two listing agents
comfortable "surfing the web", (one at a time) to get details on
you'll likely want to start your homes that interest them.)
search in the phone book or
newspaper. The last thing you Narrow the list
need is to start working with a Now that you've got 3 to 5
Realtor who is excellent at email Realtors vying for your business,
correspondence, but slow to judge them based on their
return phone calls. Either way, performance. If any of them tried
once you identify a few to talk you into their own
buyer-specialists that look like listings, or strayed from the
they might be able to help you, list of needs and wants you gave
contact several of them (via your them, drop them. They've already
preferred method of contact), and demonstrated that they aren't
ask them what homes they can send going to listen to your needs.
you that meet your specific How they get back to you is also
needs. Give them a list of what important. If you are a "phone
you're looking for, and see what person" who only checks email
they can find for you. every few days, why not deal with
a Realtor who is willing to call
At this stage, you should be you whenever they find a home
contacting 3 to 5 Realtors. that meets your needs. If you
like to look on the web, make only 1 or 2 will still be in
sure your Realtor is willing to touch come June or July.
email you every day (and make Those agents are
sure that they're ONLY emailing the ones you want working on your
you properties that meet your side. The rest will simply weed
specific needs.) This step themselves out for you.
usually narrows your list to one
or two agents, and the choice Get out and start looking!
will likely be an easy one after Once you've identified a handful
an initial meeting with them. of homes that interest you,
Once you have met with them, have contact the agent you've decided
a discussion about "exclusive to work with and start looking!
agency". When you have that No amount of pictures and virtual
discussion, be sure they have a tours can substitute for getting
"cancel anytime" policy. If they out with your agent and actually
aren't 100% satisfied that you looking, touching, and feeling
will be happy with their the homes you might one day be
performance, why should you be? moving into. By giving your agent
the assurance that you're ONLY
If you're not moving for several working with them, they'll clear
months (or even a year), it's their calendar for you whenever
that much more important that you you want to look at homes, and
get in touch with 3 to 5 Buyer since you've got a "cancel
Agents. If they're not willing to anytime" agreement with your
invest their time in educating agent, you can get rid of them if
you on the market, they're not it turns out they're not as great
serious about their business. an agent as you initially thought
Odds are that if you start with they were.
half a dozen Realtors in January,
About the Author:
Joel McDonald is the owner of Benchmark Realty - specializing in Boulder CO real estate and Gunbarrel CO real estate.
Read more articles by: Joel McDonald
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