Salt Lake City, Utah Area Homebuyers Benefit when Having Agent on Their Side

We had a wonderful experience with our agent, Benjamin Clark. 

We had been looking at houses on our own for about six months, and were getting frustrated trying to find decent houses to look at, physically locating the houses without getting lost, and scheduling appointments to see the houses with various listing agents. It felt like we were getting nowhere in our searches, and as first-time home buyers, we did not feel knowledgeable enough about the housing market to make a good decision on our own.

That was when we heard of exclusive buyer agents that work on the buyers' side. My husband was sold on the the idea of a buyer agent the minute he heard about it, and he even drew out a little diagram for me depicting why it made more sense to use a buyer agent as opposed to a traditional real estate agent. He did an online search and found Benjamin Clark, who was the only exclusive buyer agent in the Salt Lake City, Utah area.

 

One of the most important qualities for us in finding an agent to work with was the ability to ask him or her questions with ease, and discuss all of our concerns openly. Benjamin always answered our questions thoroughly, based on his knowledge and eleven years of experience with the housing market. We were impressed immediately when Ben set up 18 appointments at different houses all over Salt Lake County in one evening, complete with a time-efficient mapped out driving route and copies of the MLS listings of each house. It would have taken me weeks to make that many appointments on my own!

Ben personally drove us to each house and worked around our work and commuting schedules, even though it usually meant meeting us in different locations and looking at houses in the evenings. He allowed us to see a lot of houses in a short period of time, and was very upfront about the pros and cons of each house we looked at. He never tried to persuade or push us to buy any particular house, and he continually modified our housing searches to include new criteria.

 

One of the listing agents that we met with at a particular house told us, "You have a great realtor. He confirmed with me twice about the time and date of our meeting today!" We were not surprised by his remark, because Benjamin was well organized and was always prompt in returning our phone calls and emails. He made us feel like a priority, although we knew he was working with other buyers at the time.

 

In addition to Benjamin saving us a lot of headaches in finding our house, he saved us a LOT of money. At first, we thought we would use our personal banker to obtain a housing loan. Benjamin encouraged us to shop around for other lenders. He suggested a few lenders to check with for rates and lender fees that we would not have even considered. We could not believe the difference in rates and fees we found amongst the various lender companies! Ben put together a spreadsheet called the total cost of the loan evaluation, and in so doing, allowed us to choose a lender with the lowest rates and fees. Our closing agent even remarked, "I was so surprised with how low your lender fees were! I thought you must be related to your loan officer to obtain fees that low!"

 

Not only did Benjamin save us money with our lender and interest rate of our loan, he saved us a lot of money in the purchase price of our home as well. He helped us to stay within our budget and with his detailed market analysis, Ben painted a really good picture of what our home was worth and what we might be able to get it for. He was firm with the listing agent regarding our offer, and negotiated in our behalf. As a result, the sellers accepted our first written offer with no counter, and we got an amazing deal on our home. 

 

Even after our offer was accepted, Benjamin walked us through every step we had to take until our closing date. He provided us with resources to obtain homeowners insurance, a home inspection, a home warranty, a title company and even set up our utilities! He also went as far as to make sure that the appliances were green-stickered before we moved in, and all home repairs were completed. We would have had no idea where to start with any of these items, so Ben was really a lifesaver with his leg work that we did not think realtors even dealt with!

 

Buying a home in Salt Lake City or the Surrounding Area? Make sure you get an Agent on YOUR side of the transaction!

If you have excellent credit and will be buying a $250,000-$750,000 home in the next 30-60 days and would like an agent who will work exclusively for you, call us at (801) 969-8989 or contact us via the link on this page.

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