Home Buying Guide
Congratulations on deciding to buy a home! Use this step-by-step guide as a way
to prepare yourself for the process.
Getting Started
- Interview real estate agents
- What experience do they have? How many homes have they sold in the last year?
- Can they provide recent references?
- Will you work with one person, or a team of people?
- How is the agent being compensated?
- Do you have to sign a buyer's agency agreement?
- Become an expert in your market
- Read blogs
- Watch homes for sale - What do they sell for? How long do they stay on market?
- Start attending open houses
- Research neighborhoods
or suburbs you'd like
to live in.
- Review the standard purchase and sale forms that you will be using
to place an offer
- Use a buyer's agent for home tours
