Buying Overview
We have created a series of topics to help you truly understand buying a home. These topics can be reviewed online, printed or downloaded. Here's an overview of each topic:
How the Real Estate Business Works for Buyers: This topic explains how the business of buying and selling real estate has been organized in our society and under our legal system to assure fairness while making it easy to buy and sell all types of properties.
The Advantages of Owning Your Home: This topic discusses the various ways in which owning real estate can be very beneficial, both financially and psychologically.
Renting versus Buying: This topic focuses particularly on the advantages of owning rather than renting, and presents methods that are available to people in all sorts of situations to provide the money necessary to own instead of rent.
The Buying Process: This topic walks you through each step of the typical process for buying a home or any real estate.
Choosing a Home: This topic helps home buyers determine how to choose the best home for their particular needs and desires.
New Construction: This topic examines the pros and cons of new construction as opposed to buying an existing (resale) home.
Foreclosures and "As-Is" Properties: This topic examines some of the cautions, and potential rewards, associated with buying foreclosed and "as-is" properties.
Home Inspections and Repairs: This topic explains home inspections from the buyer's viewpoint, why they are very important, and how to decide which inspections you need to have done.
Home Warranties: This topic explains home warranty programs, and how they may or may not benefit a particular buyer on a particular home.
Financing a Home: This topic explores mortgages and financing options for home buyers.
The Value of Using a REALTORŪ: This topic discusses why a home buyer should utilize the services of a real estate agent, particularly one who is a member of the National Association of Realtors.
Find Your Home!: This link takes you to pages where you can review our Featured Properties, request that we initiate an automatic home search for you, or search all available listings on your own.