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Real estate transaction deadlines are extremely important, because if you miss a critical deadline, you can lose your negotiating ability to deal with a seller on serious defective issues, and if you had to back out of the transaction, you could lose your earnest money. You cannot afford to miss an important deadline. In this video I'll talk about those deadlines and what I do as a buyer's agent to protect my buyers from serious trouble.

Amazing online resources for buyers courtesy of Chuck Marunde and iRealty Virtual Brokers:

Schedule a telephone call with Chuck Marunde at:

https://irealtyvirtualbrokers.com/book

Search the Sequim real estate listings at:

https://irealtyvirtualbrokers.com/

Read Chuck's Sequim Real Estate Blog with over 2,000 articles for buyers at:

https://www.sequim-real-estate-blog.com/

And watch hundreds of videos for buyers at:

https://www.youtube.com/cmarunde

Sequim Real Estate: A Buyer’s Guide

https://www.amazon.com/Sequim-Real-Estate-Buyers-Updates-ebook/dp/B07G8QBH73

Seven Myths of Selling Your Home: With 20 Secrets You Need to Know

https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Myths-Selling-Your-Home-ebook/dp/B01CFBYPWK/

The 24 Secrets of Buying a Country Home

https://www.amazon.com/24-Secrets-Buying-Country-Home-ebook/dp/B083G5V6RD

Buying and Selling Real Estate in the Rain Shadow

https://www.amazon.com/Buying-Selling-Real-Estate-Shadow/dp/1440499772

FLAT FEE LISTING SERVICE:

http://wastateflatfee.com/

How do you search for the ideal retirement home in Sequim, WA? What search parameters do you use, and what MLS sites should you use to make sure you don't miss one? Alas Chuck Marunde is here to the rescue with two powerful customized search tools for you. You'll love them, because they make life so much easier for you, less stressful, and hopefully this can be the process and tools that help you find your ideal retirement home in Sequim, WA.

Amazing online resources for buyers courtesy of Chuck Marunde and iRealty Virtual Brokers:

Schedule a telephone call with Chuck Marunde at:

https://irealtyvirtualbrokers.com/book

Search the Sequim real estate listings at:

https://irealtyvirtualbrokers.com/

Read Chuck's Sequim Real Estate Blog with over 2,000 articles for buyers at:

https://www.sequim-real-estate-blog.com/

And watch hundreds of videos for buyers at:

https://www.youtube.com/cmarunde

Sequim Real Estate: A Buyer’s Guide

https://www.amazon.com/Sequim-Real-Estate-Buyers-Updates-ebook/dp/B07G8QBH73

Seven Myths of Selling Your Home: With 20 Secrets You Need to Know

https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Myths-Selling-Your-Home-ebook/dp/B01CFBYPWK/

The 24 Secrets of Buying a Country Home

https://www.amazon.com/24-Secrets-Buying-Country-Home-ebook/dp/B083G5V6RD

Buying and Selling Real Estate in the Rain Shadow

https://www.amazon.com/Buying-Selling-Real-Estate-Shadow/dp/1440499772

FLAT FEE LISTING SERVICE:

http://wastateflatfee.com/

The real estate market turned and this is definitely a buyer's market now. It's been turning for quite a while, but now that prices are falling precipitously and sellers are forced to keep dropping their prices month after month and sometimes weekly, the writing is on the wall . . . or should I say all over Zillow and those massive price reductions. This video quickly shows examples of Sequim homes in a crashing market, and the proof is blatant and in the faces of anyone, including listing agents, who claim the market is just fine. It's not fine! It's crashing, and that means the market hasn't just turned slightly to disfavor sellers--it is turned dramatically to favor buyers. This is unequivocally a buyer's market. Hang on to your panties home sellers, because you're in for the ride of your life, and it ain't upwards.

Amazing online resources for buyers courtesy of Chuck Marunde and iRealty Virtual Brokers:

Schedule a telephone call with Chuck Marunde at:

https://irealtyvirtualbrokers.com/book

Search the Sequim real estate listings at:

https://irealtyvirtualbrokers.com/

Read Chuck's Sequim Real Estate Blog with over 2,000 articles for buyers at:

https://www.sequim-real-estate-blog.com/

And watch hundreds of videos for buyers at:

https://www.youtube.com/cmarunde

Sequim Real Estate: A Buyer’s Guide

https://www.amazon.com/Sequim-Real-Estate-Buyers-Updates-ebook/dp/B07G8QBH73

Seven Myths of Selling Your Home: With 20 Secrets You Need to Know

https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Myths-Selling-Your-Home-ebook/dp/B01CFBYPWK/

The 24 Secrets of Buying a Country Home

https://www.amazon.com/24-Secrets-Buying-Country-Home-ebook/dp/B083G5V6RD

Buying and Selling Real Estate in the Rain Shadow

https://www.amazon.com/Buying-Selling-Real-Estate-Shadow/dp/1440499772

FLAT FEE LISTING SERVICE:

http://wastateflatfee.com/

A flat fee listing service has come to Washington homeowners, and it's not like a $325 FSBO model that brings very little to the table and then drops the homeowners on their heads. It's also not like the 5% to 6% traditional bricks-and-mortar listing model either. This flat fee listing service brings the single biggest value to homeowners that any traditional broker can bring. What is that value, the single most important component to any marketing system today for a home? In Washington State it is to list the home in the Northwest MLS (NWMLS). Everything else a traditional listing broker does is for all practical purposes worthless, and I'll explain exactly why.

I love what the great actor Lee Ermey said in the movie Switchback (1997). He played Sheriff Buck Olmstead with Dennis Quaid who played Frank LaCrosse. "He told the truth, and once you've heard the truth, everything else is just cheap whiskey." I've never forgotten that statement. It has so much value for all of life, and it does in this context, too.

00:00 - Introduction

00:43 - Chapter 1 Exactly What is a Flat Fee Listing Service?

01:57 - Chapter 2 What’s The Difference Between Traditional Listing and Flat Fee?

03:31 - Chapter 3 What About Their Claims of Being a Full Service Broker?

06:25 - Chapter 4 What Marketing Does a Full Service Broker Do?

12:05 - Chapter 5 Home Sellers Don’t Need the 5% Broker Any More?

12:39 - Chapter 6 Don’t Buyers Find Their Homes On The Internet?

14:33 - Chapter 7 Does The Flat Fee Service Put Listings in The Northwest MLS?

14:58 - Chapter 8 Do You Put Up a Sign?

17:43 - Chapter 9 Do You Hold a Broker’s Open House?

21:10 - Chapter 10 Do You Hold A Public Open House?

25:24 - Chapter 11 We Have Buyers For Homes Like Yours! So They Say!

25:59 - Chapter 12 Will Social Media Sell My Home?

28:17 - Chapter 13 Don’t Traditional Brokers Have Huge Marketing Systems?

36:48 - Chapter 14 What Role Does Knowledge and Experience Play?

41:03 - Chapter 15 Who is Responsible for Signs, Lockboxes and Photos?

44:58 - Chapter 16 Who Negotiates Price and Where Do I Get The Paperwork?

46:26 - Chapter 17 How Are Inspections Handled?

47:55 - Chapter 18 How Much is The Flat Fee?

48:19 - Chapter 19 When Do I Have To Pay?

49:51 - Chapter 20 What If You Represent The Buyer Too?

50:56 - Chapter 21 Real Life Example

Compare a traditional listing model to this flat fee listing service, and you'll see why I argue homeowners don't need to pay 5% to 6% in real estate commissions any more.

Amazing online resources for buyers courtesy of Chuck Marunde and iRealty Virtual Brokers:

FLAT FEE LISTING SERVICE:

http://wastateflatfee.com/

Schedule a telephone call with Chuck Marunde at:

https://irealtyvirtualbrokers.com/book

Search the Sequim real estate listings at:

https://irealtyvirtualbrokers.com/

Read Chuck's Sequim Real Estate Blog with over 2,000 articles for buyers at:

https://www.sequim-real-estate-blog.com/

And watch hundreds of videos for buyers at:

https://www.youtube.com/cmarunde

Sequim Real Estate: A Buyer’s Guide

https://www.amazon.com/Sequim-Real-Estate-Buyers-Updates-ebook/dp/B07G8QBH73

Seven Myths of Selling Your Home: With 20 Secrets You Need to Know

https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Myths-Selling-Your-Home-ebook/dp/B01CFBYPWK/

The 24 Secrets of Buying a Country Home

https://www.amazon.com/24-Secrets-Buying-Country-Home-ebook/dp/B083G5V6RD

Buying and Selling Real Estate in the Rain Shadow

https://www.amazon.com/Buying-Selling-Real-Estate-Shadow/dp/1440499772

The Sequim Location Guide is a massive package of information for retirees planning to move to Sequim. It is the 15-year project of real attorney (ret.) and real estate broker Chuck Marunde, founder of iRealty Virtual Brokers. You'll find this is what he calls the Sequim Real Estate Portal, and you get thousands of articles, hundreds of videos, and 7 Sequim real estate books. It's crazy how much information Chuck has created as original content and makes available fee to buyers coming to Sequim from all over the U.S. and two countries in Europe.

Amazing online resources for buyers courtesy of Chuck Marunde and iRealty Virtual Brokers:

Search the Sequim real estate listings at:

https://irealtyvirtualbrokers.com/

Schedule a telephone call with Chuck Marunde at:

https://irealtyvirtualbrokers.com/con...

Read Chuck's Sequim Real Estate Blog with over 2,000 articles for buyers at:

https://www.sequim-real-estate-blog.com/

And watch hundreds of videos for buyers at:

/ cmarunde

Sequim Real Estate: A Buyer’s Guide

https://www.amazon.com/Sequim-Real-Es...

Seven Myths of Selling Your Home: With 20 Secrets You Need to Know

https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Myths-Se...

The 24 Secrets of Buying a Country Home

https://www.amazon.com/24-Secrets-Buy...

Buying Your Retirement Home: How Much To Offer

https://www.amazon.com/Buying-Your-Re...

Sequim Real Estate For Buyers: Free eBook Updates Forever

https://www.amazon.com/Sequim-Real-Es...

Buying and Selling Real Estate in the Rain Shadow

https://www.amazon.com/Buying-Selling...

Real Estate Brokerage From Bricks and Mortar to High Tech Virtuality: Keeping Up With the Accelerating Rate of Change

https://www.amazon.com/Estate-Brokera...

FLAT FEE LISTING SERVICE:

http://wastateflatfee.com/

If you live in California, you know the reasons people are leaving California, although reasons are always weighted based on how they affect us personally. This list of California problems is long, but not necessarily comprehensive, but I just want to emphasize that none of these issues exist in the Sequim area. This is why Sequim, Washington is one of the best places to retire in the U.S. The list is kind of ugly:

apocalyptic forest fires, floods and mudslides, droughts, pollution, infested dying trees by the millions, grossly overpriced real estate, increasing nightmare crime statistics, unending traffic congestion, illegal alien invasions, massive fracking and drilling, never-ending increases in taxes and regulations, unstoppable government spending at all levels, and what has become a form of political insanity

I’ve referred to Sequim as “Paradise” long before I knew there was a Paradise, California, and that goes back at least as far as December 27, 2012 on this blog. It is tragic that Paradise is gone, and there are serious questions about whether it will ever make a comeback. In any event, I hope you will visit Sequim if you are one of the great Californians considering leaving California. My California clients absolutely love Sequim, and never plan to leave.

How much due diligence should you do before you submit an offer to the seller? First, let’s make sure we’re on the same sheet of music by defining “due diligence.” Due diligence is the research you will want to do on a home and the property before you close on the transaction. The bottom line is you need to know if there are any serious issues that would cause you to walk away from the property, which is all part of doing your due diligence.

Can you buy a home in the name of a revocable trust?

Can you buy a home in the name of a revocable trust?

When the real estate market tops out and begins to turn downward (and we never really know it at the time), a home seller can end up reducing the listing price again and again, in effect chasing the price down.