Helping
You Buy Your Next Home:
Our
Client Success Process
- Relationship
Development
- Getting to know each other
- Establishing communications &
‘hiring’ an agent
- Learning your needs and wants for
your next home
- How Washington real estate law and current
transaction practices work for you
- Area
Familiarization
- Area information sources
- Neighborhoods, Schools, Amenities
- Commute Patterns & Transportation
Options
- Home
Search & Select
- The Multiple Listing Service - NWMLS,
the keybox
- RE/MAX site search, ‘Home Finder’ and
MLS scanning
- Driving around and getting ideas,
Open Houses, cards
- Previews and tours
- Decision
Support
- Property evaluation, background info
and estimated fair market value
- Offer planning and
buyer’s-market/seller’s market strategies
- Earnest money, down payment &
financing; closing date & possession date
- Contracts, forms and contingencies - risk
mitigation
- Negotiation
Assistance
- Offer, presentation, and
counter-offer - getting to mutual acceptance
- Inspection contingency, STI, required
corrections, and right-to-repair
- Helping manage ‘buyer’s remorse’
- Transaction
Management
- Timelines & critical dates,
counting days
- Escrow, financing & title –
reliable partners
- Inspection & correction
- Release of contingencies
- Closing & possession
- After
Moving In
- Mechanical systems warranty option -
American Home Shield
- House-warming party
- Ongoing relationship, client events,
referrals