Buy or Sell Portland Oregon with Top Keller Williams Principle Real Estate Broker Dave Van Nus

There are many reasons why a realtor can be big asset for you and why it is so important to use a trained professional when you are buying or selling a property. Have you ever heard the saying you should have an attorney review anything and everything you do in business? The same can be said about using an experienced realtor when you are investing in real estate. Buying or selling real estate is one of the biggest financial decisions you make and using a trained expert cannot be understated. Here are several of the important reasons listed below.

An experienced realtor will guide you through every step of the buying or selling process. There are many factors to consider when buying or selling a home and if you don’t know what to watch out for you may end up costing yourself or losing thousands of dollars after you buy or sell. There are many inspections to consider, financial decisions to weigh, neighborhood factors, and community decisions to be made. Only an experienced real estate agent can guide you through these important areas.

Realtors subscribe to a code of ethics and are required to act honestly and ethically on your behalf and look out for your best interests. Realtors are held to a higher standard and are highly trained in the rules, regulations and real estate laws in the states they practice. These laws change continuously and are easy to overlook or miss in a real estate transaction. A trained real estate agent will guide you through these potential hurdles.

A realtor has access to all of the properties currently listed for sale on the market and can provide you with detailed information about any of the potential properties of interest to you. A realtor can set up a profile for you and email you all of the homes currently listed on the market in the areas of interest to you with the specific features you are looking for in a home and can provide you with detailed automatic updates as soon as new ones come on the market giving you an edge over other potential buyers.

Your realtor can help you negotiate all aspects of an offer on real estate. Years of experience can save you thousands and help you to keep things objectively with the buyer or seller. There are a lot of important things to consider including price, financing options, date of possession, personal property, inspections and often the inclusion of repairs after the inspection. The earnest money agreement should provide for all of this and an experienced realtor will make sure to help here.

An experienced realtor will help provide you with important due diligence during the sale. This could include inspections for termites, dry rot, asbestos, lead based paint, a sewer scope, underground oil tank, septic tank conversion, well tests, radon gas, siding, roof conditions, foundations, and many other important items to consider. An experienced agent can help you find qualified professionals to help assist you in these very important inspections and they can provide you with detailed written reports. You will also wanted to review a preliminary title report and review anything that may effect your title to the property in the future including easements, right of ways, past restrictions, covenants and other limiting factors. An experienced real estate agent can help guide you through these considerations.

When selling your home your realtor can provide you with up to the minute information about all the other competing homes on the market and recently sold properties regarding price, financing terms, conditions and other factors. This information is vital in helping you to price and sell your home with minimum hassle in the shortest possible time.

An experienced realtor will market your home to all of the other real estate agents and general public with the largest possible audience. There are 100’s of national websites and MLS data services that can be utilized to sell your home. An experienced realtor will have access to all of these for you.

An experienced agent will help to objectively review all offers without compromising your position and help you to negotiate a legally binding contract that will help the transaction to move forward smoothly. To many times real estate transactions are lost to improper negotiations and objections that can be easily overcome with an experienced real estate agent helping you.

We have over ten years experience helping both buyers and sellers and have closed over 1000 transactions. This has given us immense experience and as they say you learn from you experiences. We have learned a lot. We believe that if you can learn from the experiences of others you are light years ahead of everyone else. So let us help you use our experience. Contact us today.  Dave@PortlandHouseHunters.com!