If You’re Thinking You MAY Want To Be In a New Home For The Next School Year, The Time To Start Looking Is Now!

Real Estate, Hopes And Dreams

I’m a bit embarrassed as to how self serving my headline sounds, but anybody who knows me knows that  I call it as I see it, so hear me out.

The hysteria of 2009 seems to be going away, but we’re by no means out of the woods.  Sellers are still EXTREMELY concerned about not taking any more of a hit when they sell than they have to.  I think it’s fair to say that we all have a universal fear of getting ripped off, hosed, taken advantage of, call it what you like.  Throw into the mix that the sale of a home is, without a doubt, THE most emotional sale on the planet and you have the potential for all sorts of challenges.  Are you thinking of buying?  Do you want to take advantage of a buyer’s market?  Of course you do!  Every Realtor out there, myself included, is telling you so, right?  Are you going to make the most of it?  Gonna ‘leverage the market?’  Or course you are…..and the sellers know it…and they’re NOT going to let you take their home for a STEAL!

So what do you do?  You get out there now!  Why?  Because, just because a house is in forclosure doesn’t mean it’s an easy sale, that’s why!  Why else?  Because there may be houses out there NOW that will be bought by someone that has decided to wait until April or May to look.  Those people aren’t your competition NOW.  You don’t have to worry about them!

Why else?  Think about this.  There are people out there whose homes are probably priced a little high.  You may make an offer and they may tell you to get lost.  You can smile and keep an eye on the place and go back a month or two later.  Better yet, maybe you catch them at a good time.  You may even get what you want.  Now instead of later.

Here’s another point.  So much has been said about it being a buyers market that I sometimes think that people believe that, whatever they can dream up, they can get.  I wish that was true, believe me.  It would make my life a ton easier, but that’s just not the way things are.  In the best and in the worst markets, there’s the way you think things are and the way that they are.  Getting out there NOW helps you understand the space between the two.

So get out there!  Have you got an agent?  Give them a shout like one of my buyers did as I was writing this!  Don’t have a Realtor?  Go to Open Houses!  We love people like you who don’t have a relationship with someone yet!  Talk to us!  Find someone that sounds like the know what they’re talking about that you’re comfortable with and get happily involved! 

Oh, and one last thing.  Have fun!  The process should be a fun process; the product of money saved, dreams formed and ideas thought up that are now in the process of turned into a reality.