Find The Right Fit For Your Home Buying Team

Purchasing a home requires making many important decisions. You will sign lots of paperwork and have to keep track of many moving pieces. That is why you will want to find a local real estate agent to be your advocate. They will need to be able to give you solid advice and will communicate throughout the transaction. Pennsylvania homebuyers always have the right to their own representation when buying a house. A buyer’s agent can show you different homes, and as they get to know your preferences, can point out properties that you may have overlooked. A buyer’s agent represents your interest in a real estate transaction and since the commission to pay your agent is usually prearranged to be paid by the seller, as a buyer you usually only pay a small fee for the services of your real estate agent.

Questions To Ask When Hiring A Real Estate Agent

Are you a full-time real estate agent?

Do you really want to trust this large financial transaction to someone that is just doing real estate on the side? If your agent is working a day job then real estate is just a hobby, and that isn’t who you want to represent you. Sadly, there are many part-time agents that only sell a few homes a year. So ask how many transactions they have done this year, how many clients they are currently working with, and if they have another job.

Are you comfortable with technology?

Can your agent respond to your texts and emails? (Yes, there are agents that still can’t send a text, eek!) Do they use electronic signing to move your transaction along quickly and make sure you don’t lose the home of your dreams to someone that can get their offer together faster? Are they able to set up a search to alert you when a new home comes on the market?

How much real estate experience do you have?

One thing that can be said about real estate is that there is always some new wrinkle. The best way to keep things running smooth and to keep you out of trouble is to work with an agent that has been there, seen this and done that.

Are you a REALTOR®?

Only someone that bears the REALTOR® brand is a member of the National Association of Realtors® and is bound by NAR’s Code of Ethics, which holds it’s members to a higher standard of trust and responsibility.

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