Category: What to Expect Using a Buyer’s Agent

buyer’s agents Serve As Your Guide



June 3, 2010When your favorite fantasy character seems like a good person to turn too, it’s time to call an exclusive buyer’s agent. One thing that I wished I could find when I first decided to buy a home was a simple list of the steps involved in buying a house.  How do I get started?  Should I call a bank? Should I look online at houses? Should I call a real estate agent?  All I knew is that I...

Top 5 Things to Look for When Viewing Houses



June 1, 2010After looking at what feels like a million homes with our exclusive buyer’s agent, we became very efficient house hunters.  At first, it was hard to strip away the bad decorating or the incredible upgrades to the bathroom and see the house for what it really was.   Over and over again, I keep hearing this advice “Look at the things that you can’t change.”  Again, I have to go back to...

Shopping for Home Insurance, A Great Way to Kick Off Memorial Day Weekend



May 29, 2010One of the other fun activities you do once you are in contract is shop for home insurance.  There is a deadline set in your contract called Property Insurance Objection Deadline.  Basically it means:  if you go past this date you cannot break contract because you don’t like your insurance. Because I am a grown up now, I called several companies to get a quote.  Even on Friday before...

The Family Who Called House: In other words, making a second offer.



May 17, 2010Now that we have gone through this process a few times, I have realized that making an offer as a first time home buyer can be broken down into four stages: Stage One: This is The One: we will grow old in this house. Four times now my husband and I have called our friends and family, excited because we found a house in Colorado that we love! This is our third time that we have been ready to...

A Tough Lesson for the First Time Home Buyer



May 5, 2010The One that got Away We found our house! We went back and saw it again yesterday, to make sure it was as good as we thought it was. It was better. Our exclusive buyer’s agent told us that this was a really good deal, but I wasn't sure. I had only seen a few houses (it was the second house we saw), so I thought we might find something better. I checked the house on Zillow.com (which said the...

First Day of Viewing Houses with our Buyer’s Agent



April 28, 2010Our House Gained Twenty Pounds since the Listing Picture was taken. I realized that house hunting through listings is probably what it’s like to use an online dating service.  Yeah, you look incredible in your profile picture- but that was taken when you’re 18 and now you’re 40.  Or, it says here that you like long walks on the beach… but, you look like you haven’t gone on a walk in...

Real Estate Fairy Godfather: We met our Exclusive Buyer’s Agent



April 28, 2010We met with our exclusive buyer’s agent for the first time last night, and I have to tell you, it was better than I expected.  Besides the fact that our agent didn’t mind that my two month old had a lot of input during the meeting (little one came along, she’s a part of the family too!), I learned a lot about real estate in Colorado and feel like I am going into this the way a Responsible...