You’re the real estate buyer and your offer was accepted by the seller. Now what?

1. The First Deposit

2. Schedule Inspection.

3. Make Second Deposit the day AFTER Inspection.

4. If necessary, ask for credit, not repair.

5. If financing applies, order the appraisal. 

6. Make sure one of the parties to the transaction has opened a file with the company doing the title.

7. Get movers. 

8. The walkthrough.

9. Talk to seller or seller’s agent about gate access on closing day.

10. Initiate utilities including the HOA payments and any club membership.

(11. Close and list with us!)

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You’re the buyer and you are looking for real estate in Florida. What do you need to know and what to tell your real estate agent? And if you’re the agent, what do you ask your buyer?

Do you want to be near an airport? What is your price point? Are you okay with (and can you afford) a home owner’s association (HOA) or a condo association? Do you want to be east or west? This is a question you will be asked often. Everything in Florida is east or west because we are surrounded by water. Are you an east coast of Florida person or a west coast of Florida person? Do you know the difference?

Buyers are never bothering us! Our job (and we love it!) is to show you properties. New construction, open houses, nothing is too big or too small and we will never say no. Bottom line: You’re never bothering us. 

Once you find your ideal property, we write the offer. (Note: You should already know how you’re paying for the property so have your financing lined up BEFORE you contact us.) If the offer is accepted, we schedule the inspection and you should go to it. 

What type of inspection do you need? Are they all necessary? Have you ever had an inspection? It’s money well spent on one of the biggest investments of your life. Check out the neighborhood. Meet the people. Linger a bit. 

Buyers, what did we miss? 

As a continuation to the seller’s side of the real estate transaction, we pick up from last week with this question:

As a seller, have you ever received an offer and accepted it?

This is an interesting question because accepting an offer might seem very simple, but it’s quite a complicated situation. Accept the offer? Think maybe as a seller your price is too low? Wait for a better offer, even if this amount is what you wanted, or more? Counter the offer? Negotiate on the phone or in writing? 

You counter or sign the offer. If you sign the offer, it’s now called a contract. If you counter with changes, it starts over again like a volley and goes back to the buyer for them to accept your changes or not, or to make additional changes. 

Once you have a contract, you go through inspection period where the buyer can get out for any reason. This is sometimes seen as a negotiating period where a buyer will try to renegotiate the price based upon what the inspection says. 

There’s lots of the things that could “go wrong” as the transaction goes from contract to closed. Aside from all of the title and financing moving parts, what does the seller have to do? There’s the walk-through. Do you have to have the property professionally cleaned? Or deep-cleaned? What does this mean? 

What should the seller leave for the buyer? What did we miss? Let us know if you’ve ever accepted the first offer. And also, do you have a deep-clean or broom-swept horror story? (Everyone does!)

On today’s episode, Real Estate sales specialist Jill Glanzer joins Matthew Maschler and Staci Garcia to take us through the real estate transaction from a seller’s perspective. 

What happens from the very first moment a seller contacts a real estate agent. 

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While you maybe have celebrated Juneteenth, we were hard at work preparing a bunch of Real Estate Finder listings! Here’s a quick list of what we got:

Fairfield at Boca in central Boca Raton. Four bedrooms, plus a home office, two bathrooms and a gorgeous powder room. Location! Location location! Everything in this CBS ranch house, including the roof, is brand spanking new! And it’s one of a just a few houses with it very own screened-in pool and jacuzzi. No rear neighbor. Enjoy all the awesome amenities of family friendly Fairfield with a 24 hour manned guard gate. There is nothing not to love about this property! Offered at $979K with a $180/month HOA. Bonus: Zoned for brand new Blue Lake Kindergarten through 8th grade magnet school!

Next up! Palmetto Pines in west Boca Raton. A three bedroom, two bathroom corner single family CBS home with a 2-car garage on a large corner lot. Awesome west Boca Raton schools in clouding West Boca Raton High School and Loggers Run middle. Bit also walkable to SLAM free private charter school. HOA is $33.33/month. Plenty of room to built a pool! Offered at $525K

I think we went rogue on a huge discussion about Roy Rogers for a bit and returned to additional listings. We are rolling in listings so bring us buyers and let’s make magic! Or maybe you’re interested for yourself? Contact us ASAP! But wait! There’s more! Matthew discussed Juneteenth and what it means. Don’t miss his thorough interpretation of our latest holiday. And tell us how do you feel about celebrating Juneteenth? 

First and foremost, will the seller fix anything? Then maybe it’s worthwhile to get those repairs done before listing it. If the seller doesn’t want to fix anything, do they want to give the inspection to the buyer in order to get the buyer to drop an inspection period?

Heads up about our upcoming listings! For the start of summer in Boca Raton, we are super busy! No days off. Our new normal is no summers off. Contact us to buy or sell! We will get you a beautiful home before school starts in August.

Also, PMI: What is it? Do I have to pay it? Listen now for Matthew’s thorough and complete explanation of private mortgage insurance.

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There’s a reason that the gazillion residential real estate agents in South Florida don’t do commercial real estate too. It’s a totally different beast.

So, Doug is with us to answer a few questions and explain basic commercial real estate terminology and help us expand our business wheel house to include commercial buyers, sellers, investors and tenants.

Do you have questions for Doug? Drop him an email or call him at 786-763-3050. [email protected]

So how does Travis stay so busy? Tune and find out! You might be surprised to learn how Travis masters the art of the deal. And if you are looking for land in Tampa, or a cash buyer for properties up to $850K, Travis is your man. 

You can contact Travis Julmis directly at (954) 471-1154. He covers a lot of Florida for residential and vacant land and he’s no stranger to Boca’s beautiful beachfront condo market. Be sure to check out his YouTube too! (We have a YouTube sensation in our studio!) King Travis J

Today we are joined by Matthew’s professional home stager Bridget King. Bridget is the best of the best with over 18 years of experience in home staging and also provides staging for yachts, offices and basically every space you can think of.

In real estate, Bridget says “If you smell it, you can’t sell it.” She says “Love is in the details” and of course “Clutter eats Equity.” So, if sellers want to get the most money, they need to go with a real estate agent who has Bridget on board. Her tips are literally money in the bank. 

Tune in for Bridget’s short list of what to do to get the most money when selling. And if you have additional questions for Bridget (interior design or home staging) or want to add her to your team, definitely check out her website and contact her at www.CaptivaHomeDesign.com or [email protected].

On today’s episode, Matthew answers questions from a listener about Capital Gains. If you’re a real estate agent, tune in. We don’t ever want to offer financial advice. However, we do want to help explain Capital Gains by showing options which could save our clients money.