July25
After weeks of searching for your next home, you now have it narrowed down to two great options. One offers a shorter commute, but the other offers more square footage for your growing family. How can you make the best choice?
There are several strategies you can employ in your decision making process. Above all, be confident in your decision making abilities. “The fear of making serious decisions is a new kind of fear, called decidophobia,” proclaimed by Walter Kaufmann at Princeton University in 1973. Worry and procrastination do nothing to aid the process, so buyers, be confident that you will make a sound choice.
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April3
Read the Department of Justice’s opinion of the Buyer Cash At Closing program and how it effects buyers:
http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/real_estate/rebates.htm
April1
Before Closing
1. Order your optional survey within 7 days of closing.
2. Decide if you want owner’s title insurance. Tell the closing attorney at closing or before.
3. Order Homeowner’s Insurance – call the closing attorney at least 7 days before closing with your insurance agent’s name and phone number.
Hand deliver the original policy to closing.
4. Get your cashier’s check – Closing attorneys are not allowed to take personal checks higher than $ 4,999.00. So, just take a cashier’s check made payable to yourself for any amount to be safe. You will endorse the check to the law firm at closing. The law does not allow any of the following: out of state attorney’s checks, money market checks, credit union checks or any title company checks, in or out of the state of Georgia.
Most attorneys will take a local attorney’s escrow check from a prior closing.
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February2
We know what buyers want! We have listed to thousands of buyers and thousands of buyers have told us that they search online and want to be paid for their time with a reduced commission paid to the agent by the seller. Sellers can’t pay the buyer but we can! Calling all buyers!
One of the most unique features of using Duffy Realty as your buyer’s agent when you buy a Metro Atlanta home is that we pay our clients for searching online – cash at closing!
We find that you are doing the work anyway so this eliminates us having to do it for you. Our buyers report that they search the MLS online to find homes, foreclosures, HUD properties, VA properties and for sale by owner properties. Then, after they find something that they like, they search for tax records and mortgage information for the property.
When you do some of the work that we used to do, we can work with more clients and thus we feel that we should pay you for your time.
So, please take a few minutes to learn about how we pay you for searching for homes that you want to see.
Learn more about getting CASH AT CLOSING >>
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Hire Rhonda Now to Support You In The Process of Buying at No Charge To You
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List and Buy Your Home With The Most Powerful* Real Estate Agent in Georgia – Rhonda Duffy
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*Powerful equals number of listings, sales, experience, years of consistency, consumer advocacy, and common sense. Rhonda Duffy is a full time + real estate agent, weekly radio personality, T.V. real estate expert and published author. She has sold and bought over 11,000 homes for her clients in the last 8 years alone and has been ranked the #1 agent in Georgia – 6 years in a row, #6 in the U.S. Rhonda and her team expect to successfully help thousands of clients every year and they have a proven process to do just that.
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January21
A home energy audit allows you to assess how much energy you use at home so you can take steps to make your house more energy efficient. Professional energy audits generally go into great detail. The energy auditor should do a room-by-room examination of the residence, as well as a thorough examination of past utility bills. Read the rest of this entry »