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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello.
Hello friends.
It's Tia Moore your host ofNextView podcast.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
Before we get into this veryshort nine minute episode of the
podcast, I wanted to give you aquick heads up about what I'll
be discussing today.
I know that there are homes thatare on the market that you can
access without a realtor.
And so I want to talk to youabout safety protocols and also
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in that same breath, talkingabout the benefits and the
reasons why you want to haveyour hired representative with
you, even though you can'taccess the home by yourself.
I'll talk about what locationshould mean for you.
Everybody says when you buy ahome location, location,
location is the most important,but most people, most times you
don't hear people explain whatdoes that mean?
So I'll go over that and explainwhat that means to you and for
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your lifestyle.
I'm also going to be talkingabout what to think about if you
decide to purchase a housethat's near a school.
Um, floor plan functionalitywhen you're viewing homes and
things like that.
I want to make sure that onceyou go out and you're looking at
houses, the information in is inthis podcast can help you make a
decision that's going to preventyou from being beat out in the
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market with somebody else.
Because here in Phoenix andmaybe different in some other
markets, but here in the PhoenixMetro area, inventory is
extremely low.
And when we have such a tightmarket with low inventory and
high buyer demand, that meansyou have to be able to make a
decision quickly.
So if you're equipped withenough information to help you
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make a good and smart decision,then I feel like you'll, you'll
get the home that you need andyou'll be really competitive in
today's market.
So give it a listen.
Like I said, it's a short nineminutes and after you listen, be
sure to leave me a review andlet me know what you think.
I'll see you guys next week.
Okay guys, so viewing homes, thelast episode we talked about
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what you should expect when youdo a consultation with a
realtor.
Well, this episode we're talkingabout what to expect when you're
viewing homes.
So you probably have seen theopen door signs and the offer
pad signs and then you can textand they'll give you a code to
go right into the house.
Okay.
Completely okay to do that.
That's no problem in doing that.
However, I recommend that you donot make that move without your
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real estate agent.
A couple of reasons why.
One, for safety purposes, youdon't want to go into a vacant
property by yourself.
There has been more than oneoccasion where there have been,
you know, people in those homesthat should not be in those
homes and it's put people inunsafe situations.
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So I w I don't want any of youguys to have a situation where
you're, you're putting to asituation and you get hurt.
So that's one reason youshouldn't do that.
The other reason for that isbecause if you are currently
working with a real estate agentand you want to make sure that
they, that you do getrepresentation, and sometimes if
you go into a property withoutthem, then that can affect your
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ability to use them as arealtor.
So have a conversation with yourpreferred realtor about that so
they can go detail with youabout it, but just don't go
alone.
But safety and plus because youwant and you want to keep and
you want to have representation.
When you go into a house, whatshould you be looking at?
Well, I'm going to tell you itis, I don't want you to forget,
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be in the heat of the moment.
You need to be looking at whereis this house located at?
And some of these things you canlook at even before you get
there, you can just pull it upon Google maps.
But do you want to back up to amain street?
Let's say for example, it's abusy, busy road and there's lots
of traffic on it.
Do you want your house to backupto that road?
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Um, is the house on a corner?
Is it a corner lot that youwant?
Is there a stop sign at thatcorner?
Uh, do you have small childrenthat you have to think about
where that could be a problem?
Um, is it, does it face a busyroad?
Cause that's very possible.
And a lot of our cities will,particularly if you're in
Phoenix, is your front yardpretty much on a main road?
Um, is it near a school?
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If it's near a school, are youokay with, you know, getting
traffic two times a day whenschool, when stool starts and
when school ends, all thosethings are important.
And sometimes people say, well,we're okay with it and that's
fine and dandy, but you'realways, people are always okay
with it until they go to sell itbecause when you go to resell
it, that's when it could be anissue.
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Let me give you an example.
Um, earlier this year we had aclient that had a beautiful
home.
They owned it for 20 years andthey backed to a main road.
And if you're here in Arizona,it's McKellips.
That's a very busy street andthere was a ton of traffic and
that's all you heard when youwalked into the backyard.
They had a pool and it hadwaterfalls and it had a hot tub
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and it was going, they even hadsurround sound and you still
heard the traffic over all ofthat other noise that was
supposed to help drown out thetraffic.
Well, every single time somebodycame into the house, they said,
I love the house.
The backyard is beautiful.
It's my dream, but I just can'tback up to that main road.
So, so that's, that's the numberone thing you don't want to, you
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don't want to get into.
So be sure to just think throughthese things.
And when you're looking athomes, definitely think about
how your family or how you andyour lifestyle fit within the
home, but also think about howit's going to affect if you want
to resell it.
So are you going to open forfive years?
Are you going to own it for 10years?
And will you be okay if you haveto take 5,000 less than market
value or even 10,000 less thanmarket value just because of
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backs to a main road or asituation that's similar?
Look at the layout of the house.
Is it functional for yourlifestyle?
For example, do you likeentertaining?
How will it look if 20 peoplewere in your kitchen, how will
it look if 20 people in yourbackyard will that fit?
Now, as I say it, that you likeentertaining.
If you entertain once a year, itmay not be a big deal.
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I wouldn't recommend making yourdecision to purchase a home
based on a one time a yearevent.
More so focused on what happensin your daily life because
that's what's going to affectyou the most.
So how long do you plan onliving in the house?
So, for example, if you did haveto have a home that had a less
desirable floor plan that youreally want, could you put, you
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get through it for three to fiveyears or two years or however
long until you're able to saveenough money to move into your
dream house.
Maybe think about are you goingto be buying new furniture?
Are you going to be bringing oldfurniture?
Okay.
If you're going to be bringingexisting furniture, does it fit
in your home?
Did you bring a tape measure?
We always take a tape measure toour showings, so we'll have that
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for you.
But just make sure that you'rethinking through those things.
Because again, the last thingyou want to happen is for you to
move into your house and realizeit's, it's not functional.
That's, that's it's too late atthat point.
So you don't want to have that.
You want to look at that.
And when you're looking at home,um, figure out what is the feel
of the house, you know, going tothe living room.
Where were you spend the mostamount of time, master bedroom.
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How does it feel?
Do you feel good waking upthere?
Will you feel living good livingin that home?
How far will it be to and fromwork?
Maybe you need to test it.
Go back to the house in theevening.
If you looked at the home in themorning, go back to the house or
the neighborhood in the eveningand see if you like the
neighborhood at night.
If you looked at the house atnight, go back during the day
and see what you like.
How's the traffic pattern?
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How are the neighbors?
You always want to look at thatbefore you've actually made the
decision and when you're lookingat the house I'm with with my
team, the next few homeprofessionals, we preview the
home for you before we look atit because once we've met with
you and we have a really clearunderstanding of what you want
and what you expect, we can saveyou time and we can save you
energy by knowing that and wecan say, Hey, this house came on
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the market.
It looks exactly like you wantit to look.
And it has all these things thatyou'd like, you know, it has the
walk in closet, it has the bigbackyard, it has no neighbors
behind it.
Um, or back to a golf course.
Whatever your desires are, we'regoing to make sure we're taking
those into account.
We may even call you and say,Hey, we found a home.
It doesn't hit all the marks,but these are the things that it
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does.
We've looked at it and it'sabsolutely beautiful.
I think it could be a good fatwhen that happens.
We'll tell you that upfront whenit's not going to just spring
that on you upfront.
We're not an HGTV show.
We're not property brothers.
We're gonna.
We're gonna make sure wedisclose that to you.
For example, I had a clientmoving here from California.
He had very specific criteriathat he wanted and there was one
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house that I sent him and hesaid, no, I don't want to look
at that one.
And so when he, when he came outfrom California and we did our
home tour, there were threehouses we were looking at, but
then I added the fourth one.
That was the one he told me hedidn't want to see.
I said, I know you said youdidn't want to see it, but we
have some time.
Can we go and look at it?
Because I think you would likeit.
I just want you to feel, get afeel for him.
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And so we looked at all thehouses that were his first
priority.
First.
He actually did not like themonce he got in.
And then we looked at the fourthone, the one that I recommended
to him and he was like, you knowwhat?
I love this house.
I can't believe it.
It does hit all my marks.
So sometimes the pictures don'ttell the full story.
But previewing a home gives usand extra edge on the
competition because we knowexactly what you're looking for
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and we're going to look at itand we're trying to make sure
that you get a really goodpurchase.
So, um, for, in that particularcase, he bought the house.
He loves it.
He still lives in it.
So it's all, it's all reallygood and it's a, it's a pretty
cool neighborhood.
The other thing we have is homesthat have not hit the market.
So you might be, you know,searching for homes on our
exclusive mobile app.
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You may be searching for homeson Google or Redfin or
realtor.com.
Any of those websites, but whatyou don't have access to is
things that have not hit themarket yet.
And so there have been manytimes where I have sold a home
that I have listed to a buyerthat comes to my office and
says, Hey, this is what I'mlooking for.
And I'll say, you know what?
I have something that's not evenon the market yet.
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The buyer's happy, the seller'shappy.
Everybody gets it.
And they don't have to worryabout competition from other
people looking at it too.
They've gotten a leg up on thecompetition and got the home
that they want it.
So if you're in the market tobuy a house, those are things
you want to think about whenyou're viewing it so that you
can make sure you make the bestdecision.
So remember, I am a licensedreal estate agent in the state
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of Arizona.
I lead the next few homeprofessionals team at exp
Realty.
If someone you care about has areal estate need, or perhaps you
have a real estate need, beshort.
Have them contact me by callingor texting.
(480) 281-3078 we're alwayshappy to accept your referrals
and we're always happy to answeryour real estate questions.
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