Congratulations on Your New Home!
A New Home for a Nice Family and A Fun Experience for us and we hope for Melissa and Kimball
How do you do your home research? On line most likely. How ready to purchase are you when you start the hunt? Ready? Still learning, getting a handle on reality, if you are like most. What happens when you narrow your hunt down to a few homes; two neighboring homes are for sale, the first two you look at, and one of them is awesome. To top it all off, you are a first time home buyer.
Thus goes the story of Kimball and Melissa. We proudly show you photos of their first home. It closed this week and we are all pretty happy.
Back to how ready will you be? The seller was home as we toured this nice place and informed us they knew an offer was coming. As much as you research on line, there is nothing like actually being there. Having seen every home on the market, in this market, I knew it was the best home for the money they would find. But they had to experience more, you would too. By the time we did our tour the home was sold.
We hunted for another three weeks, always comparing the new opportunity with the lost one.
We have an awesome neighborhood search tool you can use, and Kimball and Melissa had been faithfully using for months of research. One of its features is that it emails all changes regarding listings in neighborhoods. I got an excited call from Melissa, the home was on the market again! I received my email notice as we were speaking.
Now was the time to act. We all dropped everything and went into high gear. I called the listing agent to confirm, yep the previous deal, for higher than asking price, had died. What couldn’t have been all at once, seemed to be. We went into an assertive mode to make sure we didn’t get aced out. We didn’t.
These pictures are on line with permission. They can have family and friends take a look at their home.
The real estate business can be an exciting package of joy. We hope you enjoy your first home, thanks for sharing the experience.
Posted by Larry and Kathleen Cragun
