Top 3 Home Buying Blunders
Monday August 25, 2008
Buying real estate is hard enough without buyers messing it up for themselves by forgetting about the top three home buying mistakes.
Not that buyers intentionally cause problems, mind you. It's just that few understand the ramifications of their actions and, quite honestly, lots of real estate agents don't want to risk offending their clients by setting them straight.
Some agents probably worry about losing the deal altogether, but the reality is an agent owes her buyers the truth, even if it's something the buyers might not want to hear . . . read more about Home Buying Mistakes.
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Comments
Great advice, and especially useful for someone like me, who is a property investor.
I also find it useful to maintain a good relationship with the vendor, so that you can call whenever, without any feeling of awkwardness, and query any problems/delays at their end.
The same goes for your mortgage broker and solicitor, keep a good relationship and always be honest, query everything, and get documents back to them as soon as possible.