Buy Right so you can SELL WELL! Atlanta Real Estate Series Part 1
Tim Francis Realty loves to work with Atlanta home buyers helping them locate a great home for their family. While we do this, part of our job as an Atlanta Realtor is to avoid the issues that would make a resale tougher. For most folks their home is their largest single investment and we’d like to see it return as much money as possible.
The way to make money in real estate is to buy low, sell high. Obviously, with today’s current market, that makes life a bit more challenging. (Buying low is easier today than Selling Well.) However there are key things when buying that do make a difference and can really change the market value of your home in the future.
The following are things that we strongly feel like should be avoided when you buy a home as they are EXCEPTIONALLY difficult to sell:
- A home by any high tension electrical wires, railroad tracks & train (even inactive ones), airline flight paths and interstate highways.
- A home on a creek or water way that FLOODS or has flooded in the past 25 years.
- A home on a very busy street – or even moderately busy.
- A home next to a commercial building if you are in a residential area. (It’s a little different if you are in a more urban area!)
There are things one can do to re-model or fix an issue within the house, but items as those listed above cannot be addressed and WILL end up making the home selling challenge a lot more difficult. Besides making the sale a lot more difficult, any savings you experienced buying the home will also need to be shared with the next buyer.
Tim Francis Realty’s goal as a buyers agent is to help you make as good a choice for your family as we can, such that when you call us to sell in the future, we can get as much money for you as possible. So, while we like to make a sale, we will be sure to tell you if there are things that will make a resale much more challenging if the home is not the best buy.
We’ll be writing more in this series as we post about Buy Right, so you can SELL WELL and make money in real estate.
Feel free to share any other ideas of things you should avoid to buy right? What can you think of?
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