I Want To Buy Real Estate In St George Utah
Buying real estate in St George Utah and the general area can be challenging and exciting!
Home Buying Process
To the left in the menu is detailed your home buying process with everything you would want to know from A to Z. Throughout you will find helpful buying links for the Before, During and After the purchase process. Below we start with an item of immediacy- timing your move.
Timing My Move - FAQ
Many people often ask me the following questions involved with Timing the Move. Below, I will try to think of everything and provide the best set of expectations to help your move go smoothly. Please go easy on us as we merely try to do our best with answers, but we too also allow for individual adaptation and variation off these answers.
Sell My Home First - Question: Brian, can I come look at properties before I've sold my home?
Answer: You can do some looking, but be careful. It is easy to get sucked into taking up everybody's time to 'find the best home' when you still don't have your own even under contract yet. First, most people experiment with the idea that they can somehow come look at the property that they plan on moving into BEFORE they actually put up their own home and sell if first. This is so natural. However, the home you like, will most often not be available by the time you get your home sold. It just does not happen that way (9.8 out of 10?). Let me tell you why. First, if you like the home, it is most likely because it is decently priced or the amenities have an appeal hard to pass by. Amazing! But, how many times do you think that that home ends up being the very next home to sell? Too many times to count. In other words, if you have "found" the best one, so too does it often appear obvious to the buyers moving through homes that ARE ready to purchase. Then how will it still be available while you try and sell your home? Most often it just won't be there for you.
But like homes can come and go, so getting a feel inside a couple of your favorites is not a bad idea, if you don't think pictures have been educating you proper. Most times you can trust pictures if there are enough that you can decide 'what kinds of deals are and can and "will most likely" be available', once you sell your home.
If you haven't listed your home yet and you live here in the St George area, Contact ME and I can give you either a 'feel' for what you can expect OR I can do a full blown market analysis and get more exacting for you in our assessment. If you prefer, you can use my Find Your Homes Worth form to put in your request. I can really help you more if you provide a phone number, in case I need to call about certain items that could be germane.
Videos and Google Maps - Question: How on earth can I decide on an area without first visiting the area?
Answer: Getting to know the area, in starting out, has become a lot easier. You can get to know the area with our new videos on the home page. Videos and Google Maps make things much easier now-a-days. Also, most people miss this: When you are looking at listings on our Advanced Search, click on Map, then click on Driving Directions, just under that. This will take you to a Google Map. Now you can take that little yellow man and drag and hold him over the map. When any streets turn blue, drop him onto the street next to your listing and now you will be as if standing in the middle of the street, able to move up and down it, looking at the entire neighborhood and at multiple curb shot views of YOUR LISTING. Some limitation applies if the Google van has not mapped that section of town. Most areas here now have been mapped.
OK, maybe you need to come here to look around and get a feel for the area prior, selecting this as your destination to move to. The St George Chamber of Commerce can often be a good place to visit at such time.
However, if you are already familiar enough regarding the desirability of the St George Utah area, then you never need to worry about 'getting a comprehensive feel' for the areas neighborhoods as a necessary precursor for looking to buy. You really can just commit to this area as it is quite desirable and nice and most people seem to get a feel for the right neighborhood when looking to buy that home.
Brian's Commitment and Policy - Question: Brian, we really do respect people's time, so tell me what is a realistic demand on your time before we are really ready to buy?
Answer: Please know my absolute commitment in potentially GETTING to serve YOU and your real estate needs. Be aware that I try to abide a policy of showing one to three listings when you might not yet be settled on the area or if you have to sell a home first. If 'cashing in' on a purchase is going to be an eventual fact of happening, then I am all yours; but do let me know as to the certainty. I am definitely not afraid of paid work. When respecting my time, I trust YOU when it comes to your requests in relation to adapting policy to the situation. Please do not misunderstand, when you are settled on the area, are pre-qualified and either do not have a home to sell first or virtually have one selling, then this is where I focus all of my time to drop what I am doing to help find that dream home for you and negotiate an offer for you. If you have a home to sell, but it does have a contract on it, then this DOES qualify for Brian's full investment of time on showings etc.
Know My Neighborhoods - Question: Are there neighborhoods to stay away from and what are some of the more desirable neighborhoods in town?
Answer: See #2 in the upper left hand menu Know My Neighborhoods
Horse in Front of Your Buggy - Question: I know I need to get pre-qualified, but really, don't I just need to do that just before we go out and when in putting an offer on something?
Answer: See #4 in the upper left hand menu Get Pre-Qualified
Educated on Listings - The Royal Road to Neighborhoods - Question: How can I best maximize my home search process?
Answer: See #5 in the upper left hand menu Top Search Solution Tips
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I can help you relocate or plan your move properly. Please do not hesitate to call me or contact me for any questions or concerns. You do not need to stumble around in the dark.
We specialize in taking the worry out of buying real estate in St George Utah and the Washington County area.
