Last Train to Clarksville

House Hunting?

Here is the question a lot of future home buyers ask their family and friends.

Should I get a Real Estate Agent from the start, or should I look around on my own?

If you are knowledgeable about a region, it wouldn’t hurt to start driving around.  Identify neighborhoods in which you might want to live.  It would be great to visit those neighborhoods at many times of the day, including weekends and here’s why.  Imagine you find the house that  you love and you decide to drive by on Sunday afternoon and stop in on Wednesday afternoon. During both visits, the neighborhood seems peaceful and quiet.  You buy the house, and on your first Monday morning there, at 7 a.m., horns blare and tires screech.  It happens that your street is a good rush-hour shortcut around the town’s business district.  There go your peacefull mornings and dinner hours. So, it might be important for you to visit at all hours of the day. In the morning, around lunch time and in the evening.  I am not saying go over there every day of the week in the morning, afternoon and evening.  Just check out an early morning, if you can or if you even care about the issue of a busy neighborhood.  Definitely check out the evenings, especially friday and saturday nights.

If you are the customer who doesn’t want to have an agent in the early stages of house hunting and you have found the neighborhood you want to live in, then give us a call and we can get you into every home that is for sale in that neighborhood, whether the home is listed with us or with another company.  If, however, you are moving to this area and are new and don’t have a clear sense of where you want to live, you can speed up the house-hunting process by asking an agent (that is us ) to take you around.  The agent cannot tell you what neighborhoods are the best or if the neighborhood is high in crime.  That will have to be searched out by you due to legal issues for the agent. Even at the very beginning of the process, it is important to work with an agent you feel you can communicate with.  Search the web if you are out of state or even a current resident, which I believe you already are doing since you are reading my Blog, and learn as much as you can about the agent you might be interested in working with.  You can search their company name, their name, and see what is going on with this agent. (You will be able to read about Team Agnew following those links.)

Most importantly, when you are looking for an agent, I can’t stress enough that you will not be paying this agent for the work they are doing to help you in your house hunting, negotiating the best deal and closing on your future home!  Your agent, which negotiated the deal to close in your best interest, is paid by the agent’s brokerage.  Some buyers who don’t know this are worried to choose a Realtor to work and be committed to working with because they fear they are paying for them to help.  That is not the case with Team Agnew.  We have never been paid by our buyers and never will. Just like you interview agents to work with, we interview our customers to work with.  We want to make sure that the communication is good and that way the experience of buying a home will be a joyful one!

If you have any questions, please feel free to call/text or email us.  We would be happy to answer, free, any questions you might have, if we can legally do so.

Leave a Reply