When purchasing real estate in Austin, many individuals consider self-representation, but its smarter to hire a professional to work for you and your best interests.
One benefit to having a Realtor is you will have access to every home in Austin that's on the market via MLS and other sources, including off-market pocket listings. Agents also have the inside knowledge of "coming soon" to the Austin Real Estate market before they go live.
Agents have knowledge of what similar properties have sold for and access to the sales dates. They are knowledgable in market analysis to make sure you're making a real estate decision best for your specific needs. They know the neighborhoods in which you are looking to find an Austin home.
Realtors will negotiate on your behalf. They have expertise when it comes to negotiating and closing the deal, as well as, managing the legalities of foreclosures and other distressed properties.
NOTE: As a thank you for reading this blog post, we are providing you with a free excerpt from Dan Castro's book CRITICAL CHOICES THAT CHANGE LIVES.
How do heroes change their focus when they are suffering extreme pain or difficulty? They use the power of their imagination. Your imagination alone can help you get past any difficult situation you are facing. When we don’t exercise the power of our imagination, all we can see is our current struggle, which causes fear and depression. This fear steals our energy and takes away the motivation that we need to get us through to the other side. In contrast, using your imagination to focus on specific, positive pictures gives birth to hope, faith and courage. But, you have to make a conscious choice to create these pictures. Then you have to make a conscious choice to focus on them. Then you have to make a deliberate choice to believe. When you choose to believe, excitement and energy follows. Feelings follow faith and not the other way around. If you are focusing on how you feel right now and waiting for that to change before you choose to believe, it is like waiting for your fever to go away before you take the medicine.
If we believe the costs are too high or the possibility of success is too low, we may become discouraged and refuse to act at all. When you refuse to act, you create a self-fulfilling prophecy that prevents you from achieving your goals. Our beliefs and perceptions (the visions in our heads) alone have the ability to either inspire and motivate us or defeat us before we ever get started. The point is – the biggest obstacle standing in your way is not the obstacle, it’s what you believe about the obstacle. What you see is what you get.
Have you ever sat in traffic behind someone who was trying to decide whether it’s safe to merge into traffic? From where you sit, it may look like a 747 airplane could have merged by now. Their decision to wait for a bigger opening is based on their own perception of the traffic and their lack of confidence in their own ability or the ability of their car to thread the gap. They don't move because they believe they can't make it, whereas, if they thought they could make it, they would go. Sometimes you just want to kick them in the pants and yell, “Go for it!” or some other expletive. Similarly, our beliefs can limit our actions or spur us into action. Sometimes what we need is a good kick in the pants and to hear someone yell, “Go for it!”
When my father got his real estate license, it was during a severe recession in Texas. To make matters worse, the prevailing interest rate on home mortgages was a shocking 18%! His timing for entering this profession wasn’t perfect, but his enthusiasm more than made up for it. His excitement and desire to succeed made him oblivious to the obstacles. His company repeatedly gave him awards for being in the Million Dollar Club. One day, another realtor, reading the newspaper with his feet propped up on his desk, caught my father on his way to an appointment with a client. Looking up from his newspaper, he said, "Hey, what do you think you're doing? Don't you know no one is buying? We're in a recession!" My father looked at him blankly and in his innocence and said, "Well…no one told me about it," and he walked right out the door and kept selling. Remember, many of life's problems aren’t caused by what we see, but by how we see.
The world famous Italian violinist Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840) was playing before a large audience when a string on his violin broke. He improvised beautifully and continued to play. Then another string broke. Then another. Soon, he had only one string left. Paganini continued to improvise and completed the entire composition with just one string. When the applause finally died down, the conductor turned to the audience and shouted, “Paganini . . . and one string!” The audience roared and Paginini began playing again on that one string. It is amazing what we can accomplish when we have already decided that nothing can stand in our way. This is the decision behind the decision.
If our belief is that the goal is so important and exciting that it’s worth pursuing at any cost, then our belief alone launches us into action, and nothing can stop us. This massive action alone, coupled with an undying belief in the goal, prevents us from ever giving up. Tenacity and time are often enough to make our dreams come true. You can create your own self-fulfilling prophecy if your belief is strong enough to get yourself off the couch. But this requires that you choose to exercise the power of your imagination and focus on what you see with your mind.
If interested in Austin real estate please contact Rose Castro at rose.optionsrealty@gmail.com
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