Buying or Selling a home Can be Stressful! 😵
The Experienced Greetings DMV Sales Network Agents Will Help You Find YOUR Home Or Sell Your House,
So You Have More Money, Comfort, And Achieve Your Goals Throughout The Process.
Great Ways Your Realtor Can Help You
Pros and Cons of Hiring a Real Estate Agent
A real estate agent can help in your home-buying journey for several reasons, but most importantly, they will help you alleviate some stress.
If you’re feeling anxiety and apprehension, I want to reassure you that you’re completely normal.
It’s the fear of the unknown that causes those feelings.
While working with a real estate agent, you may need to be made aware of some things behind the scenes. It's not because they're not being transparent with you, but because their job is to organize it to give you so that you don't have to stress.
Watch this quick 6-min video: Great Ways Your Real Estate Agent Can Best Help You.
Here are some ways a real estate agent can help you in home buying:
Guide you through the entire process.
Think of your real estate agent as a quarterback.
A quarterback can get the ball from the center, throw it, or run with it. Their overall role is to lead the team’s offense.
Your real estate agent will guide you down the path, but they’re also guiding other people, such as the lenders, the title people, your insurance people, the home inspectors, etc. There may be additional specialized inspectors that may be part of the process.
Within the title company, when you’re getting ready to go to closing, there will be many different roles within each area. Your real estate agent will organize all that for you.
What an excellent real estate agent can do is they can first build rapport with you so that they’re connected with you and on the same page about what you’re looking for.
They can ask you adept questions to understand your needs, desires, goals, and challenges. They need this information to guide you and support you through the process.
There’s a process to home buying that involves a lot of different people. The reality is you don’t know many of those people. So they’re pairing together everybody so you don’t have to.
Help you with the home search.
You can search through websites you can look at from your phone, but they may know things that may not have hit the market yet.
When you find a home in a particular community, they can also tell you things that are not easily seen – something you may not ordinarily think about.
They can share facts about a neighborhood, area, or location that you might want to consider but wouldn’t know otherwise.
They’re not going to be able to tell you every single thing that you should be aware of. You would want to do your due diligence to protect yourself as well. So it’s more of a partnership.
Negotiate with the sellers.
A great real estate agent knows market conditions, the history of the market, and an understanding of where we are in the market today and where it may go in the future. All this plays a role in their ability to negotiate well.
And it’s not just throwing prices back and forth with the sellers and their agents. It knows what to negotiate and how to communicate it.
Ultimately, what you’re looking for from your agent, who will be your negotiator, is that they understand your goals and needs and that their goal is to help you achieve that.
What your real estate agent thinks is just his opinion. But what a great real estate agent does is listen actively so they can advocate for what you want and need.
I talk more about these in great detail in a talk I conducted for buyers, which you can watch below.
If this helps you and you need further assistance finding homes for sale in the DMV, I’ve been a licensed real estate agent and broker for over a decade. I’ve helped hundreds of buyers find the best home, and I can help you find yours. You can reach me at (703) 346-2776 or Dan@greetingsvirginia.com.
