Anyone can email you listings. The job is knowing which ones deserve your Saturday, what the inspection will probably turn up, and what the place two streets over actually closed for.
Before anything else, and it is free. Your real number is almost never the number in your head, and everything downstream depends on it.
City lot or acreage. Ten-minute commute or twenty-five. The house is changeable, the location is not. We sort this before we tour.
Three to five good options beats twelve. After the fourth house they blur together anyway.
Price is one lever. Timeline, terms, earnest money, and a lender who performs are the others, and they win deals more often than people expect.
General inspection always. Sewer scope on older homes. Well and septic on rural property. Knowledge is leverage and it is cheap at the price.
Appraisal, underwriting, walkthrough, keys. Then you get the list of local trades worth calling, which matters more in year one than anyone tells you.
Where, how much, and what has to be true about it. I will send the places that deserve your Saturday and skip the ones that do not.
I will reach out to go over what you told me, then send the places that actually deserve your Saturday.
Less than most people assume. The twenty percent figure is the single most expensive myth in real estate. There are loan programs that start considerably lower, and Oregon has down payment assistance on top of that for buyers who qualify. Talk to a lender before you talk yourself out of it.
Yes, and not just because sellers want to see it. Pre-approval tells you what you are actually working with, which changes which neighborhoods and which house types are on the table. It is a free conversation and it takes about twenty minutes.
Buyer agent compensation is negotiated and spelled out in writing before we tour anything. I will walk you through exactly how it works in your specific purchase, in plain language, before you sign a thing. No surprises at the closing table.
From accepted offer to keys is commonly thirty to forty-five days depending on your loan. The search itself varies enormously. Buyers who are clear on what they want and pre-approved often find it in a few weekends. Buyers still figuring it out take longer, and that is fine too.
Buying your first place, selling acreage out east, or landing here from out of state — start with a conversation. No pressure, no script, no disappearing act.
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