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Case Study - Buying with Confidence
Situation: Newly married, didn't use a real estate agent. Now they're looking for the second home and selling the first. Experience: "It started out fun -- we went out on a Saturday morning drive, not even looking for a house, and came home that afternoon having agreed to purchase 'the perfect home' -- at least we thought," Diane said. Jack continues: "That's when the problems started. We had no idea that when we left that afternoon we were supposed to have everything down on that paper 'just perfect,' and that any changes could cost money -- A LOT of money." Had we taken Mike with us, we would have avoided so many of the pitfalls we ran into." "In a nutshell, the builder put the AC slab in the wrong place, didn't add the door to the garage which we had talked about (but didn't write on the order), and we told them to put a phone jack in a really unusable place. We went round and round, got angry, stressed, more angry, stressed, and when we moved, we had a bad -- no awful -- taste in our mouths about the whole process." Diane adds: "I know that had we had someone to help us walk through the process and look out for us, we would have saved over $5,000, stressed a lot less, and enjoyed moving into our first home a lot more." Resolution: "Next time (actually right now!) we're taking Mike with us! He sat down, listened to our wants and looked at our needs, and today, he just called and said 'I found your house.' I know, even without seeing it yet, that it'll be exactly what we asked for. The case studies are actual mortgage applications successfully processed to completion, they are intended for the purpose of providing an example only, and every mortgage application is underwritten separately on its own merits. |