I have a question for the readers of this blog. What do you look for when you are thinking of buying a home?
I sell homes in and around Tacoma that much should be obvious if you are visiting my blog. I know what I do to find potential clients who can benefit from my services. I know what works and what does not work when it comes to finding clients. What I need to learn now is what do you look for when you are going to buy a house?
What is it that helps you to “know” when you’ve found a place you want to call home? When you are just looking do you search the Internet to look at homes for sale? Do you use a search engine and type in phrases like Buying a home in Tacoma or Homes for Sale in Tacoma. Feel free to insert the area that you are actually looking at for Tacoma in your responses. What is it that you are looking for from the big machine that sends your answers back to you?
One of the nagging questions I am looking for help with is when do you decide to work with a Realtor®? At what point during your search to you want professional assistance? What value to you expect your agent to bring to the table? You can go to dozens of websites and see every agent in Tacoma or any other city tell you that they are the best to help you buy or sell your home. What cuts through the white noise? What makes you pick up the phone, send email, or visit the office of the agent you decide you want to find out more about?
You can search here to see all of the homes for sale in Tacoma Washington. You can search a lot of places to find homes for sale. You can find out a lot about borrowing money to buy a home in Tacoma here. You can find a lot of information on just about everything related to buying home online. What I want to know is what do YOU want to help you look for a home? If you can clearly answer that question then you will find that when you’re ready to buy a home you will have a much easier time. By sharing your answers you can help me to be the best Realtor® I can be. Together we can help one another.
So, What do you look for when buying a home?
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I remember looking for a home, and things really made head-way once we started talking with you!
Initially we were only looking at prices, distance from our jobs, and how much work would be required to make the house move-in-ready. Other than that, we would use online maps and street views to take a look at the neighborhood. Using resources like Redfin, Zillow, and assorted Realty company websites were our mainstays for tracking homes down.
You really put a lot of things into perspective for us, like asking us what will we be doing in and around the house, what things will we have, and to think ahead several years. This helped streamline our hunting to get us on-site at houses that were worth our time, money, and trouble.
Thanks Andrew for the comment. What sites did you like the best for searches? This is something that I am trying to get a better handle on. What do people like in search sites? And when searching do they want an agent to offer to help? I know everyone is different but, I want more data to help come up with a better more finely tuned service model.
Scott,
I just buy the one my wife likes, and try to get a decent garage.