We
are often surprised at how casually many buyers select a real estate
professional. Often it's not even understood that the licensee is that buyer's
legal representative.
That's why we urge anyone who is embarking on a real estate
purchase to call Niel Thomas and schedule a Buyer's Consultation. There is no
obligation, but you will learn a lot. If it seems mutually beneficial to
formalize the relationship and move forward with your project, we can. If not,
no hard feelings.
If you want to check out Niel's background and qualifications
to represent you before calling, go here.
Here's a typical agenda:
- Representation: Licensee relationships as
Alaska laws
defines them
- Professional Services Agreement: Hiring a real
estate licensee: like "listing" a real estate company the way a seller does
- Guarantee: The Coldwell Banker Buyers Services
Guarantee
- Making Your List: How to identify property that
fits your criteria: sources of property listings
- FSBO sales: How your real estate professional
represents you when the seller is unrepresented
- Financing: how to select a compatible loan officer
as a member of your property purchase team
- "Bias and Prejudice": Niel's confession of why he
thinks some properties are worth considering and why he suggests you should
avoid others
- Seller Disclosures: What a legally-sufficient
disclosure must contain and what a seller does not have to
tell you
- Purchase and Sale Agreement: The MLS purchase
documents, how they protect your rights as a consumer, and what your
obligations are
- Negotiation Strategy: What types of proposals to a
seller have the best chance of success; competing when there are multiple
offers
- Property Inspections: How you choose inspectors
based on what you know about a property, and what more you need to learn
- Negotiating Repairs: When your inspector comes up
with a "show stopper" what should be said to the seller, and your lender?
- Closing Process: What do you have to do to stay on
schedule and how does your real estate professional keep all the balls in
the air?
-
Concierge Services: Coldwell Banker's "staffer who knows everybody" and
how she makes your real estate life easier
