{"id":13594,"date":"2020-06-10T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=13594"},"modified":"2020-06-10T13:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T19:10:00","slug":"why-homebuying-begins-with-the-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/10\/why-homebuying-begins-with-the-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Homebuying Begins With The Agent\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

It takes a team of professionals to buy a home\u2014like the lender, the appraiser, the inspector, the property insurance agent, the title officer, and others\u2014but the real estate professional may play the most critical role.<\/p>\n

Baking bread seems so simple.\u00a0There are only four ingredients: flour, salt, yeast and water; yet, there are steps that should be followed as well as a certain sequence to get the proper results.\u00a0Some people mix all of the dry ingredients before adding the hot water to activate the yeast.\u00a0Other people will activate the yeast in the warm water first to allow it to \u201cbloom.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both methods can achieve satisfactory results but one knowledgeable person needs to be in charge of the bread instead of having multiple people to be concerned with just their one ingredient or contribution like mixing, kneading, fermentation, benching, shaping, proofing or baking.<\/p>\n

Similarly, in a home purchase, the buyer\u2019s agent can be the one who puts things in the proper order and sees that no steps are missed.\u00a0The buyer\u2019s agent coordinates between the other professionals with the common goal of getting the home closed on time according to the terms agreed in the sales contract.<\/p>\n

Even if a buyer has been through the process before and, possibly, multiple times, the buyer\u2019s agent will most likely have far more experience because it is their job.\u00a0They perform their job on a daily basis and are not personally or emotionally involved like a buyer is.<\/p>\n

Your agent understands what and when the various steps should be done and by whom.\u00a0They have worked with enough of the other professionals to know who is good at their job and can offer recommendations.\u00a0They have seen the things that make a transaction go smoothly and what can derail one.<\/span><\/p>\n

Experience is a great teacher, but the lesson does not have to be learned by going through it by yourself.\u00a0Take the luxury of using your real estate professional\u2019s experience acquired through years of study and practice.\u00a0Allow your agent to advise you and coordinate the efforts to achieve the results you are expecting and deserve.<\/p>\n

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It takes a team of professionals to buy a home\u2014like the lender, the appraiser, the inspector, the property insurance agent, the title officer, and others\u2014but the real estate professional may play the most critical role. Baking bread seems so simple.\u00a0There are only four ingredients: flour, salt, yeast and water; yet, there are steps that should […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-better-homeowners-news","category-sponsored"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}