How to Find a Home Despite Today's Low Inventory

How do my team and I help buyers find homes, given the low inventory in today’s market? Today, I’d like to tell you about our strategy.

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With the low level of inventory in our current market, how can buyers find a home?

Today, I’d like to explain how my team and I help buyers find properties that aren’t even on the market.

One strategy we use is calling around neighborhoods that a buyer may be interested in. We’re able to do this thanks to our database of phone numbers and addresses.

By calling around our database, we’re able to find out whether anyone in that neighborhood is thinking of selling their home.

Since they aren’t listed on the market, these properties will see much less competition.

This helps our buyers identify additional options on the market. Also, these properties will see much less competition since they aren’t listed on the market.

If you have any other questions, would like more information, or want help finding a home, feel free to give me a call or send me an email. I look forward to hearing from you soon.

How We Can Turn Your Home into a 5-Day Listing

Our five-day listing program is designed to get you the most money and best terms for your home in the least amount of time. Here’s how it works.

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The market is very hot right now and a lot of homes are receiving multiple offers. What are we doing to create higher offers for our listings in the current market?

We’ve come up with a tactic that I call the five-day listing.

We start by listing your home on a Thursday, after we’ve gotten it ready and had it properly staged for the market.

Then, we schedule an open house for that Sunday. Realtors and buyers see the property hit the MLS and all of the other real estate websites on Thursday, so they call to schedule showings on Friday or Saturday.

When they call, we tell them that the seller has an open house scheduled that Sunday, and that the seller has asked to wait until after the open house to accept offers.

This way, we create urgency and scarcity in the mind of the buyers and the agents. If they make an offer before the open house, they will make the highest offer possible.

We advertise the open house on every real estate website out there, including Zillow, Realtor.com, Trulia, and the MLS. That way, buyers know about the open house. We also put out 30 to 50 open house signs to create a huge event.

We make a spectacle out of the open house to create a sense of urgency for the buyers.

We really want to make a spectacle out of your open house so that any buyers who are interested in your property will be scared that someone else might buy it.

A lot of the time, we never even have to have the open house. Since the buyers who have showings on Friday or Saturday are scared of losing the house, their offers are usually very good. In that case, you can just go ahead and accept an offer.

If we do have the open house, you will likely have multiple offers on the home by Monday. Those offers can drive the sales price up and help you get the best terms.

Our five-day listing strategy helps you sell for the most money in the least amount of time and without any hassle.

If you have any questions about selling your home in today’s market, just give me a call or send me an email. My team and I would be happy to help you!

Is It Possible to Find the Right Home in Today's Hot Market?

It’s hard to find the right home in today’s hot market. Here are a few ways I go above and beyond to help you do just that.

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How do we go above and beyond to find the right property for buyers? This is especially difficult right now in today’s hot market. Offers come in fast and homes move quickly off the market.

For this reason, there are a few extra steps we take to ensure we’re doing the most we can for our clients.

First of all, we search sources outside of just the MLS. This includes looking at Zillow, Craigslist, foreclosure and off-market properties, and For Sale By Owner properties, as well.

By looking in these places, we’re able to find homes outside of the ones everyone else on the market is already seeing.

Additionally, we preview properties for buyers. Listing photos are meant to look good. However, not every home out there is as good as it appears. I’d say between half to ¾ of all homes on the market simply aren’t what they may seem.

My goal is to help you find the right home.

To avoid wasting time on homes like these, I will preview properties that fit your criteria and select the ones I think will be the best fits for you.

This way, we can find the right property and make an offer before it’s too late. My goal is to help you find the right home.

If you have any other questions or would like more information, feel free to give me a call or send me an email. I look forward to hearing from you soon.