5 Mistakes You Want to Avoid When Buying a Home in the Summer

Buying a Home This Summer? Read This First

Summer is the most popular house buying season, and this year as the country continues to open after the coronavirus pandemic, it is looking to be even more competitive than usual. With properties selling at a rapid pace and so many buyers navigating the market, it will be all-too-easy for overzealous buyers to overlook certain things on their pursuit of buying the perfect home. This will undoubtedly leave them open to making all kinds of mistakes.

If you are planning on buying a home this summer, then you have to do your due diligence to ensure you get the right home at the best price. To do that and to avoid buyer’s remorse, you need to avoid the following five mistakes so commonly made when buying a home in the summer. more “5 Mistakes You Want to Avoid When Buying a Home in the Summer”

Buying Your First Home: How Long Should It Take?

Getting Some Help for the Biggest Purchase You’ll Ever Make

Buying a home is complex process, and going through the many steps for the very first time can be even more difficult, especially if you’re not prepared. On average, the typical buyer takes 10-12 weeks to find the right home, and views about 10 homes before finding what they consider, “the one.”

Whether you got lucky on day one or you’re trying to figure out just how long the long process is going to take before you even get started, you’ll want to pace yourself through the upcoming marathon. Read the rest of this article now to learn more about just how long the home buying process should take when you’re doing it for the first time. more “Buying Your First Home: How Long Should It Take?”

How to Choose The Right Real Estate Agent

Picking the Best Real Estate Agent for Your Unique Situation

Buying or selling a home can be one of the most exciting things a person will ever do. It can also be one of the most challenging experiences you’ll ever have. In the end, much of the difference between these two extremes comes down to the quality of your real estate agent.

A lot more goes into picking the right real estate agent than simply picking the person with the best online ads, the biggest company backing them, or the most years of experience under their belt. With all that in mind, here’s how to choose the right real estate agent for your home sale or search.

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Why You Should Buy A Home in Spring

Why Spring Might Be the Best Season for House Hunting

Spring is here, and in any normal year, it brings with it the biggest buying season the housing market will see. There are many reasons for this. Chief among them is that winter is the slowest season for the real estate market, typically because of the holidays and the cold seasonal weather.

Spring may be the hottest season in real estate and house hunting, but does that make it the best season for you to go shopping for a home? Let’s take a look at why spring is such a busy season for home buyers and sellers, why it may be the best time to buy, and why you might want to wait just a bit longer before you step into the market this year.

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Timing Your Sale and Purchase So You Don’t End up in Storage

How to Time Your Current Home’s Sale

If you’re buying your first home, timing is not necessarily going to be an issue. After all, you will continue to live in your apartment, your parents’ home, or wherever you hang your hat until your new home is available – and then you’ll move right in. However, if you already own a home and are buying a new one, things are a little trickier. You probably need to sell your old home before you can buy a new one, but if you sell before you buy, where are you going to put all your stuff in the interim?

There has to be some way to time things so that you can move into your new house before you have to move out of your old one, without having to pay to put all of your possessions into storage. Fortunately, people do this all the time. Here are some tips for timing your home sale and home purchase.

To begin, there are basically two ways to time your sale and purchase; you can buy, then sell, or sell then buy.

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See Past the Staging—What to Really Look For When Buying a House

When Buying Real Estate, Seeing Is Rarely Believing

With home values dropping in the market, sellers are doing everything they can to spruce up their properties to woo potential buyers and hike up asking prices – including paying up to $100,000 or more for home staging services. Beneath all the visual glamor, however, shoddy work can show itself if you know how to look – and hear, smell, touch, and taste.

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