Are you wanting to make your Home Buying experience a less stressful? How about a pain free transaction? A loan process that requires no kinks or last minute documentation? Or how's about a ‘perfect' escrow officer and a home inspector that only charges $2.00?
I'm here to tell you to wash away that mindset that everything in your Home Buying Experience should pull off without any quirks and qualms. As human beings, we are not perfect anyway. We all will make a mistake at some point in our lives and being realistic is knowing that EVERYONE WILL NOT THINK LIKE YOU.
We know that your Home Buying experience is going to be stressful to a point because there is just so much involved and so many people who will have to work together. Team players include YOU the Home Buyer too. It is one of the most important decisions you will make in your lifetime and also one of the most stressful situations in one's lifetime anyway.
When any party to the transaction goes above and beyond to create stress is becomes a heartache transaction and it really isn't necessary to:
- Criticize the loan officer and create unimaginable emotions in an email Instead, pick up the phone or ask if there's something else that you can do to help make the process go smoother. If something is asked for at the last minute believe that they are thinking in your best interests and truly not there to screw you over.
- Criticize the escrow officer and call the company incompetent Instead, fly an email and ask if they can please be more timely with their responses. Ask them if they need anything from you. Be timely in your responses back as well.
- Tell the agent to flake off when you're angry at another party If your agent has worked well with you up until this point then why get mad at them because something else didn't ....go your way. Your agent is there to guide you and think in your best interests. Not to barf on.
- The home inspector is ripping you off Step into another's shoes and really see that a professional home inspector spends hours in that home to go through everything to ensure you have a detailed report on every nook and cranny. They are there thinking in your best interests so you are apprised of all that may be right or wrong with the home.
- Play real estate agent and the know it all Yes, ask questions. At the same time LISTEN to the answers. Communication is key to success. Key to communication is listening. That's the whole reason you contacted the agent to begin with; to get great representation throughout your Home Buying process.
I have learned that there are no two transactions ever alike and there will be bumps and snags along the way. There has NEVER been a perfect transaction but we can all make it ....less stressful situation by working together instead of against each other when something didn't go ...perfectly.
Stress-Less Your Home Buying Experience
Work Together for a Smooth Transaction.
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............The need for perfection and the desire for inner tranquility conflict with one another. Whenever we are attached to having something a certain way, better than it already is, we are, almost by definition, engaged in a losing battle. Rather than being content and grateful for what we have, we are focused on what's wrong with something and our need to fix it. When we are zeroed in on what's wrong, it implies that we are dissatisfied, discontent.
"Don't Sweat the Small Stuff"..... Richard Carlson, PHD
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