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Lehigh Valley MLS: How Do you Schedule to see a Home?

Scheduling to see a home in located on the Lehigh Valley MLS? This actually can be a very confusing thing for more than 90% of the Lehigh Valley Home buyers.Schedule to see a home

Myths in Real Estate about viewing Homes

1) The BEST way to view a home is to drive around and call every for sale sign that you see that interests you and talk to who ever answers the phone and request that they show me the house.

Possible Issues with this type of method

    a) This means you might be meeting 5 different Real Estate Agents at 5 different homes.

    b) If you leave a message, you will be lucky to get a call back within 24 hours.

    c) 75% of the Time you will be contacting the Seller’s Agent – Who works for the seller not you. Buyer Agent Services, What should you expect?

    d) If you have qualified the home on the internet first, good job! But, have you spoke to a Mortgage Advisor or a Buyer Agent and discussed what the “numbers” are for this level of home investment? If it turns out to be your “dream home” - The Monthly payment is the #1 concern of 90% of Home buyers today.  How, When, and Why to get Pre-Qualified?

    e) The seller will require that you are pre-qualified to view their home.

2) The next BEST way to view a home is to not bother any Real Estate Agent as I am “just looking” and just wait until there is an open house or call and find out when the open house is scheduled for.

  Possible Issues with this type of method

 a) Remember, 75% of the Time the Lehigh Valley REALTOR®holding the open house is very nice but THEY work for the seller NOT you.  They are obligated by law to tell the seller everything you have told them….do not say anything to them but hello and how are you…ask as many questions as you can do not give them any information about why you are buying or that you love the house. (These things can all be used against you in negotiating the best price for you.) The better way to do this…is to go to the open house with your Buyer Agent and have them speak on your behalf. KEYNOTE: You do not pay the Buyer Agent for their services, the Seller’s agent shares their commission to pay them.

b) Not all homes have Open Houses: This is not one of the best methods in which a home is sold from the Lehigh Valley MLS anymore…before when there was no Internet…yeah maybe…but now the way homes are getting sold is by a Buyer Agent Scheduling a Showing for their home buyer and showing them the home at a time that is convenient for both of them. 

c) What happens if you really love the house and so does several other people? And you do not have a Buyer Agent and you are not pre-qualified? Even if you get away with viewing a home at an open house without getting prequalified you will need the pre-qualification letter to make an offer on a home.  If you do not know the numbers on a home you should not be looking at it….Well, that is the easiest way to disappoint yourself, finding out that the monthly payment or down payment and closing cost requirements do not fit your financial needs.

It is easy to find a home you can fall in love with but a completely different world looking for a home that fits your financial and life style needs.

Doesn’t it make more sense to make this process as easy as possible…since it is the most important process you will go through in your life? Go out and start interviewing Buyer Agents…find out what services you can expect from them in writing, What are the First 5 Steps in buying a home

I will prove to you, that if you view the video links below that in less than 3 mins per video that you will find that it is a much better process working with a Local Lehigh Valley REALTOR ® AND setting up your search through the Lehigh Valley MLS.

Here are some other resources to checkout.

The only Local Interactive Lehigh Valley MLS Search

Lehigh Valley MLS, Detailing your Search to fit your needs

* Lehigh Valley MLS: How Do you Schedule to see a Home? *Moriah Martin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License

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