Make Your Move Easier - Advice for People Selling or Buying a Home

I was working with a friend, helping to sell her house.  I saw a whole other side of my friend, one that I’m convinced came from the emotional side of selling her house.

In an earlier episode, I talked about the emotions people often experience as they’re getting ready to sell a house.

In this show, we’re preparing you for the emotional side of selling your house once someone offers to buy it.

I'm Kelly Vandever. I'm a real estate agent in Alpharetta, Georgia, with Keller Williams North Atlanta. Subscribe to receive tips on how you can Make Your Move Easier. 

If you want help selling your home or finding a new one, call Kelly at 770.597.1108.

House Sale Preparation

In the real estate world, agents sometimes refer to the buying or selling of a home a transaction.

But to the person selling the home, the sale is so much more than a business transaction.  It’s an emotional experience.

How do you prepare yourself for that emotional experience?  That’s what we’ll talk about in this episode.  

Most of us don't have the cash to buy a house. 

The good news is there are a lot of banks and other lenders that would love to give you money to buy a house.  The money they give you is called a mortgage.

Before a lender will give you a mortgage, they will evaluate 3 things first.

(1)  Are you the kind of person who pays their bills
(2) Do you make enough money to pay a mortgage plus the other debt you owe
(3) If you can’t or don’t pay your mortgage payments, can we sell the house to get our money back

Find out more about what's involved with getting a mortgage in this episode.

Do you want to know how much money you have to come out of pocket to buy a home?  Or put another way, do you want to know how much money you have to save to buy a house?

Those are the topics we talk about in this episode.  Get out your calculator!

In the last episode, I mentioned that if you want to get a good house in Georgia, you need to move fast!  Especially at the time of this recording when there are more people needing to buy houses than are willing to sell them.

"But don’t worry," I said.  "You’ve got a due diligence period in Georgia," I said.

So what is a due diligence period?  Why does it help you feel more confident putting an offer in on a house?

That’s the topic for this episode.  

Whether you’re buying your first home or buying a home after living 2 or 3 decades in a home, the home buying process can be daunting.

Luckily we have TV shows to tell us exactly what it’s like!

Or do we????

Find out what it's really like in this episode.

More suggestions on what to do with your jewelry.

Ideas on what to do with jewelry you inherit or no longer want.

Sometimes you need to get rid of things before a move that really are junk.  

In this episode, I'll tell you about my favorite landfill in Hall County, Georgia!

Getting rid of things before making a move can be hard.

In this episode, I talk about one way to make it easier by donating to a charity that comes to you!