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Buying or Selling Your Home? Follow These Three Tips to Ensure a Stress-free Real Estate Transaction

February 11, 2015 by Linda White

Buying or Selling Your Home? Follow These Three Tips to Ensure a Stress-free Real Estate TransactionBuying or selling real estate is a significant milestone in life. Frequently, it means that a new phase is starting, whether it’s a new job, a new relationship, or moving to a new area. However, when the most basic steps are missed, this transition can be fraught with stress and disaster. To ensure a smooth deal, home buyers and sellers alike should be sure to mind the following tips.

#1: Always Be Honest

Honesty and clear communication need to be a two-way street. Home buyers and sellers expect their real estate agent to be honest with them, and likewise it is always necessary for a home buyer or seller to be honest with their real estate agent.

Hiding details or covering up potential problems will only cause more issues when everything comes to light. When important information is withheld, it’s possible for delays to occur, costs to rise, or even for the deal to be killed.

It’s much better to disclose all necessary information upfront so the situation can be handled appropriately. An expert real estate agent will be able to guide home buyers or sellers through the problems and to a workable solution.

#2: Hire A Professional Real Estate Agent

Buying and selling real estate is not an easy process, so it’s never a good idea to try to proceed without a professional who can be trusted.

Far too often, people let friends or family members represent them in real estate transactions. In these cases, it’s likely for feelings to be hurt, relationships to be damaged, and trust to be compromised.

Rather, it’s recommended for home buyers or sellers to use a real estate agent they do not have a close personal relationship with. That way, they can stand confident that their agent is looking out for their own best interests, and nothing else.

#3: Understand The Market

Far too often, home buyers or sellers fail to recognize their area. If they are the home seller, this means understanding what kind of buyers are looking in their market. If they are the home buyer, this means understanding what kind of neighborhood they would enjoy living in.

Failing to identify this crucial information will waste time for the seller and buyer alike. However, this is where a real estate agent comes in: he or she will know the market inside out and be able to offer valuable counsel.

Home buyers and sellers should call their agent if at any time they have questions; this professional is the key to a smooth real estate transaction.

Filed Under: Real Estate Tips Tagged With: Home Buyer Tips, Home Seller Tips, Real Estate Tips

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