As a Buyer, it can be very frustrating trying to find the right home. Sometimes even when you do – it sells too fast.
Here are my best tips to help you in your journey.
- Call Realtors who have sold similar homes to those you liked and see if they are keeping tabs on any neighbours that have similar homes in the neighbourhood.
- Get plugged in by a Realtor to scan the back end of the MLS in real time to see what matches your needs and have them emailed to you as they come up. Tip: Have them program the search to scan for key words
- Take a closer look at homes that may not seem too attractive in the listing as sometimes a great home can just be poorly marketed.
- Consider homes outside of your area of preference that are closer to highways so that your commute to other parts of the City is similar
- Consider a more expensive home
- Consider a cheaper home
- Consider a home that doesn’t have the style you like as you can always modify many aspects of style and have a custom home that will be unique (which works in your favour when you go to sell it)
- If you have a very specific area and type of house that you want – go door knocking
- Consider getting your home built, or getting one in much poorer shape than you would like renovated to your standards
- Look at EXPIRED and CANCELLED listings from the past 12 months and see if the Sellers would still be willing to sell.
- Hire me because I do all of these and it costs you nothing to have me or my team get you a home 🙂
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