tips for home buyers: Home Buyers, Are You Up to the Competition?
- 09/19/20 12:17 PM
Home Buyers, Are You Up to Facing Today's Competition?
Buying a home in today’s market is tough. As a home buyer, are you up to facing the competition?! Are you really prepared and are you serious?
Market conditions in many areas are challenging, with limited inventory in multiple price points, and lots of buyers (due to pent up demand, and great interest rates, among other reasons) who want to buy and can afford to do so. In short, what these conditions mean is that if you want to buy home you likely will be facing competition for properties that come on the market … (34 comments)
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tips for home buyers: Buyers, Do You Have 2020 Vision?
- 12/22/19 03:57 PM
Carlsbad Buyers – How's Your 2020 Vision?
This is not about your eyesight in the home-buying process. Not that good eyesight isn’t nice to have, and helpful when looking at houses, perusing listings online, and reading through all the paperwork once you are in a transaction.
This is about having a vision for your home purchase in 2020,
if buying a house is your intent.
Going about your purchase without a plan, and a vision of what you hope to have, is pretty foolish and likely to lead to frustrations and wasted time, not to mention possible failure. And it might be an indicator … (14 comments)
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tips for home buyers: Carlsbad Home Buyers Ask - What Is a Counter Offer?
- 07/05/18 05:06 PM
Real Estate-Ese – What Is a Counter Offer
Buying a Carlsbad home is a tough job in our competitive market, whether you are a first time home buyer or an experienced one. One thing you need to know about the offer process is the counter offer.
The most important thing, of course, is to work with the right Realtor who can help you strategize about your offer, and understand the options available to you depending on your personal situation, and the local market conditions. But here are a few thoughts.
First, you might wonder why you need to know what a counter offer is. … (46 comments)
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tips for home buyers: Are You Watching the Housing Market Like a Hawk?
- 02/21/18 02:41 PM
Are You Watching the Housing Market Like a Hawk?
If you are a home buyer in Carlsbad and other North San Diego County communities (and other housing markets around the country), you no doubt realize inventory is very tight in many price points, and the market favors sellers.
Are you watching the market like a hawk?
The Red Tailed hawks I see in our area are ever-vigilant for that next meal…are you that watchful?
I sure hope so, given how quickly some homes can go pending.
Searching for, and buying, a home is pretty much a full time job, and in our market something you … (7 comments)
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tips for home buyers: 7 Ways Buyers Can Sabotage Their Offers
- 02/09/18 08:21 AM
7 Ways Buyers Sabotage Their Offers
Chances are when you decide to make an offer on a house you love, you want it accepted, or at least to reach agreement with the seller after some negotiations.
It can be challenging enough when it’s just you and the seller, but when there are multiple offers, the odds are not in your favor to begin with.
You want to put your best foot forward, of course. But there are some key ways that buyers can, and do, sabotage offers. The good news is these are all avoidable.
NO LENDER PRE-APPROVAL
This will ruin your chances of getting … (70 comments)
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tips for home buyers: A Home Buying Strategy for 2018
- 12/29/17 12:16 PM
Home Buying Strategy for Carlsbad Buyers in 2018
If you are planning to make what will be the biggest financial investment in your life, and buy a new home in 2018, you have to have a strategy. You DO have one, don’t you?
There are key things to have in place so that you can be successful with finding, and purchasing, a house in Carlsbad or elsewhere here in North San Diego County. And there's a lot to know about how to buy a home.
And if you are looking to buy a vacation home, there are some essential things to know about buying … (8 comments)
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tips for home buyers: Community Home Buyer Fair is Saturday September 23 in Vista
- 09/22/17 08:44 AM
Community Home Buyer Fair isTomorrow!
Saturday September 23 in Vista
The North San Diego County Association of Realtors (NSDCAR), my local board, is sponsoring the Community Home Buyer Fair tomorrow, Saturday September 23rd in Vista. You can learn more about how to buy a home!
The Community Home Buyer Fair will be held at the Vista Civic Center at 200 Civic Center Drive, right off the 78 freeway.
This is a terrific opportunity for potential home buyers to earn about homeownership and how to make it a reality, now or in the near future. This educational event is free to the public and soliciting business … (4 comments)
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tips for home buyers: A New Question for the Carlsbad Market – How Much More Should I Offer?
- 04/05/16 09:27 AM
How Much More Should I Offer is the NEW Question in our Housing Market
The question used to be…how much less will the sellers take? Or some variation of that.
The new, and more common question, from buyers is about how much to offer – right below asking, asking, or over? Why is that?
The Carlsbad housing market, like many others, has been a sellers’ market for some time, with inventory hovering in the 2 – 3 month range overall. In the lower price points, say under $700,000, it’s about 3 weeks of inventory. And things have heated up this spring as demand has increased, … (14 comments)
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tips for home buyers: Common Issues at a Carlsbad Home Inspection
- 12/23/15 01:06 AM
Common Issues at a Carlsbad Home Inspection
The home inspection, for many buyers, often causes a bit of anxiety, in particular if you’ve never been through one before. There’s the big unknown – what issues will the home inspector uncover?
Normally a buyer will make their offer contingent on a home inspection. Not having one done is risky and contradicts the advice of your Realtor. You may have to sign a waiver if you decide to not have one.
The purpose of this article is to share some common issues that arise in home inspections.
That’s not to say these will all be … (5 comments)
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tips for home buyers: How to Buy a Home – Video Series for Home Buyers (Contingent Offers)
- 02/25/15 12:14 PM
How to Buy a Home
Video Tips Series for Carlsbad Home Buyers
~ Contingent Offers ~
Buying a Carlsbad home is a tough job, whether you are a first time home buyer or an experienced one, and there is a lot to know with many decisions to make.
The purpose of this “How to Buy a Home” tips and advice video series is to provide quick answers to some of the most important issues and decisions you face, and questions you will likely have, when buying a new Carlsbad home.
See video below for a discussion … (11 comments)
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