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DAVIES TOP FIVE TIPS Top 5 Tips for Relieving Home Buyers Anxiety: 1. Work with your agent, in advance, to create a plan for your purchase, including financing, saving for downpayment, and timing. Start looking seriously at online real estate sites, only after you have a plan. 2. Learn about the local real estate market. The real estate market is not national.There are some areas of our county that have maintained value better than others.The market also cycles, even locally. 3. Expect competition and do your research. Even if you find a property that you like, you may be competing with many other buyers, some with all cash. Property histories, as in foreclosures and short sales, are not always revealed in public marketing materials, and may require more in-depth investigation by your agent. 4. Determine now if you want to fix up a house or not. Many buyers are willing to make light cosmetic changeslike painting, but if repairs are left to the buyer in a transaction and they are not prepared or skilled, the joy of a good deal can dissolve quickly. 5. Decide what is most important: a great deal or a great house. Remember that the right house will always be there when you are ready. And if faced with the opportunity, you might even be willing to pay more than asking price to get a great home. DAWNA DAVIES • Davies Company Real Estate • [email protected] www.DaviesCo.com

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DAVIES TOP FIVE TIPS

Top 5 Tips for Relieving Home Buyer’s Anxiety:

1. Work with your agent, in advance, to create a plan for your purchase,

including financing, saving for downpayment, and timing. Start

looking seriously at online real estate sites, only after you have a

plan.

2. Learn about the local real estate market. The real estate market is not

national.There are some areas of our county that have maintained

value better than others.The market also cycles, even locally.

3. Expect competition and do your research. Even if you find a property

that you like, you may be competing with many other buyers, some

with all cash. Property histories, as in foreclosures and short sales, are

not always revealed in public marketing materials, and may require

more in-depth investigation by your agent.

4. Determine now if you want to fix up a house or not. Many buyers are

willing to make light cosmetic changeslike painting, but if repairs are

left to the buyer in a transaction and they are not prepared or skilled,

the joy of a good deal can dissolve quickly.

5. Decide what is most important: a great deal or a great house.

Remember that the right house will always be there when you are

ready. And if faced with the opportunity, you might even be willing

to pay more than asking price to get a great home.

DAWNA DAVIES • Davies Company Real Estate • [email protected] • www.DaviesCo.com