Would you and SHOULD you buy a house sight unseen?

What you should. You buy a house? Sight unseen, literally blindfolded. Well, let’s talk about it, because this market has about 45% of buyers purchasing a home site.. My name is Janine Sasso and a local real estate agent in the northwest suburb of Chicago. And I help buyers and sellers realizing their real estate dream is off market. We really want to get our foot in the door as early as possible. Kind of like the earthworm that catches the worm right now.

he early stuff catches the worm and you go and sometimes you just need to get in there early in order to compete. Because if you are not even able to get your offer in, you negotiate, right? One of the things I want you to think about is the golden rule of real estate. Location, location, location. Right. You might be able to fix an outdated bathroom, but if the house is located in a neighborhood that you are not particularly making, because the way of the front yard or the drain located behind a busy highway that’s beautiful up there and home might not be the best investment.

So first off, make sure that you are looking beyond the home. If you’re looking at sight unseen, very, very important, you can simply have your agents do a face time with you, a Skype call. However you want to do it in order for you to not only see the house, but also ask and see the surroundings, look at the you know, how the opening painted, what the rounded well, google zoom view where you can just zoom in and see what’s there, maybe the power lines and everything, the highway and have you able to walk up and down a couple of streets. I mean, you should really know what it looks like. Look at all the cars On the house. As I mentioned, it’s really important to your overall purchase decision.

If you’re submitting an offer, write something a bit more frequent, more effective, and that well, when it comes to negotiations, believe it or not, listing agents will.
Want to know, have you actually seen the House? What can make a huge difference in the negotiation process if your agent has a spot in the home to show it to you via video talk? You’re definitely in a better position if you think, Oh no. We just look at the pictures online simply for the fact we want to make sure that a buyer has a little bit more of an emotional value tied to the property, not just submitting an offer so they can have the time to try it in person.

And then within the first couple of days decide, you know what, it’s not the house for us for them to walk away, but thanks so much for letting us see it. So definitely be mindful of that fact when you’re looking to purchase a home sight unseen. So I hope some of this was helpful. I know it’s tough to get your foot in the door sometimes, which is why I want to introduce you to our Secret Home website. We have hundreds of listings available and I tell you, the last couple of buyers I have, they have found their home and it wasn’t even listed on Zillow or Redfin. We’ve gotten them in the door prior to the home getting publicly listed. And it was a dream home.

They fell in love, made an offer and purchased it. You can get access to that exact same flat. All you got to go and do is go to www.bit.ly\secrethome and you can get access. We’re going to ask you a couple questions in the area because we have literally hundreds of homes and we want to make sure we’re hitting the home that we’re interested in. So make sure you spell that one out. My name is Janine Sasso and the local real estate agent in the northern suburb of Chicago. And I hope I get to help you realize your dream of real estate.

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