Buying a home is a dream that just about everyone has.
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Here are the some basic tips for buyers and sellers:
Buying a home can be an overwhelming event. We have prepared some buyer tips for you. Please click on the links below to learn more about each topic.
Buying your first home
A dream house can become a nightmare if you buy outside of your comfort zone. Your Realtor® is available to help you make the right decision. Research and realistic expectations set you up to rest easy in your new home.
Avoid Common Mistakes
Incorrect documentation, credit problems, changes in or loss of employment, loss of loan eligibility or inability to produce closing costs and down payment can easily void a real estate transaction.
Don't pay too much
Every new home buyer worries that they will pay too much. This concern is merited, especially if the buyer has not done the necessary research or is working without a Realtor®. However, there are some steps that can help the buyer save money.
Steps to smooth home purchase
First make your decisions regarding your needs and wants, gathering the necessary personal and financial documentation, and having your credit in order. Keep in mind that people with poor credit usually pay more when financing a new home.
Selling home can be an overwhelming event. We have prepared some buyer tips for you.
Common Selling Mistakes
An experienced Realtor who can guide you through the detailed and confusing documents for listing your home. Be sure that any questions you have are answered to your satisfaction, and know what responsibilities and obligations you have.
Selling Your Home
A Realtor® can also provide you with current market information, necessary legal forms and disclosures, and suggestions on how to make your home more marketable.
Price Right Real Estate
Setting the right selling price can be a tricky process, unless you have the right information.
Staging Your Home
A clean, clutter-free home will feel more inviting. It includes the exterior, since this is the first thing a buyer will see. You should try to clean your home; the buyer will feel right at home.
Open House Checklist
When holding an Open House, begin with good advertising, such as signs and classified ads.
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Advantages to Buying an Old Home
The most obvious advantage to buying an old home is character. While new homes can be sleek, all lines and bold angles, they don't hold a candle to arched doorways, parlors, hand-carved banisters, stained glass windows, 12-foot ceilings, 7-inch baseboard, phone alcoves, octagonal rooms . . . and just the grandeur that defined the turn of the century.
Another benefit is that old homes have withstood the ravages of weather, children and pets for decades, even centuries. They're solid! What's going to settle has likely already settled. Not a whole lot in foundational "ahas"!
And not meaning to state the obvious, but here we are, old homes sit in old neighborhoods. Established neighborhoods. Some older homes have been passed down from generation to generation. Relationships develop over the life of a house and its occupants, and a watching-each-others-back mentality surfaces that can extend to folks buying into the neighborhood. You don't just buy an old home . . . you buy an extended family.
While builders may exhibit a propensity for razing indigenous trees, shrubs and grasses, leaving a freshly shorn pate with which to create! create! create! time has erased the folly of the earlier builders. What were once neighborhoods dotted with itty-bitty baby saplings have now become homesteads nestled within the canopy of trees in the prime of life.
Finally, because the most common means of locomotion were your own two feet, people built their homes closer to their entertainment. Or more aptly, they built their entertainment closer to their homes.
Disadvantages to Buying an Old Home
More work! If it seems that there's always something needing to be fixed or updated, it's because there is! Unless the building had been gutted and restored before you called it home, you may want to tuckpoint chimneys and stone foundations, level sloping floors, ground electrical outlets, remove cracked plaster, replace plumbing, update the kitchen, bath, furnace, windows, and yes, add central air. Although once the old home has been nipped and tucked, what a showplace it could be!
Old homes are notorious for their smaller closets, garages and storage spaces. Photographic data actually exists proving that people groups from the early 20th century were not all under 5-feet tall and skinnier than a runway model; however, that's not reflected in their homes. And don't think to use the basements for storage or living space, because many are nothing more than a soil-based cellar accessible only from outside the home.
Lastly, the layout of the old home is not conducive to large gatherings . . . at least gatherings with which folks can be in the same room at the same time. Yes, the parlor was big. Yes, the living room was grand. And yes, sometimes the foyer was spacious. But they all had one thing in common. None of them were open to the other.
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