Buying

Buying

Why You Should Interview Me to Buy Your Next Home

First of all, you should interview three brokers or Realtors. Don’t make a distinction between brokers and Realtors. I have nothing against the Realtor label, but it’s a trade group label, not a skills or training thing. A Realtor wears a pin that says they belong to a trade group. To be clear, that trade […]
Buying, Selling

What skills your buyer broker should possess to represent you in a competent manner

Real estate transactions can run from simple, to some with a few moving parts, to very intricate. The more moving parts there are, usually, the more personalities are involved. A well-seasoned broker is going to be adept at: Negotiation Managing personalities Legal ramifications Paperwork Logistics Financial acumen Before hitting these points, let’s start with a […]
Buying

How the Market has shifted in the last two months. And how it’s helping buyers

How the Market has shifted in the last two months. And how it’s helping buyers. At the risk of being that idiot that’s pounding the table and screaming “you have to buy now”, (like every other broker), I feel I have to bring this to my reader’s attention. Because, if you knew this and I […]
Buying

Education, and why you need to purchase a home right now

I have to say that when my wife and I bought our first home, at 30 years old, we were not financially astute. Even though I had been working in finance for about five years at that point, we had wasted a solid 5 years of paying rent up till then. We kept thinking “next […]

Buying Why You Should Interview Me to Buy Your Next Home First of all, you should interview three brokers or Realtors. Don’t make a distinction between brokers and Realtors. I have nothing against the Realtor label, but it’s a trade group label, not a skills or training thing. A Realtor wears a pin that says they belong to a trade group. To be clear, that trade […]

Buying What skills your buyer broker should possess to represent you in a competent manner Real estate transactions can run from simple, to some with a few moving parts, to very intricate. The more moving parts there are, usually, the more personalities are involved. A well-seasoned broker is going to be adept at: Negotiation Managing personalities Legal ramifications Paperwork Logistics Financial acumen Before hitting these points, let’s start with a […]

Buying How the Market has shifted in the last two months. And how it’s helping buyers How the Market has shifted in the last two months. And how it’s helping buyers. At the risk of being that idiot that’s pounding the table and screaming “you have to buy now”, (like every other broker), I feel I have to bring this to my reader’s attention. Because, if you knew this and I […]

Buying Education, and why you need to purchase a home right now I have to say that when my wife and I bought our first home, at 30 years old, we were not financially astute. Even though I had been working in finance for about five years at that point, we had wasted a solid 5 years of paying rent up till then. We kept thinking “next […]