1. Communicate openly with your real estate agent! Let them know your must-haves, deal-breakers, and budget to avoid wasting time on unsuitable property features. A written list is helpful.
2. Be candid about your funding. Share your pre-approval letter and loan comfort zone with your agent. Some properties require specific loan programs, with condition requirements.
3: Expectations. Identify your timeline expectations. This helps your agent manage the process to suit your schedule, move, job and budget.
4: Express concerns that you have about a property as questions. Your agent can investigate to help prevent expensive surprises for you, and better filter the next property that looks promising.
5: Be urgent about seeing properties. Thus you out more time to consider them and making an offer. When you see an interesting property, share it quickly with your agent. Tell them your ideal days and time ranges to see it, and then go.
6: Due diligence! Ask your agent to investigate the property if the documentation is light. If they exist, that includes existing subdivision plans, road agreements, town zoning, surveys, waste-water permits, listing history, aerials showing land contours, water bodies and neighbor proximity.
7: Identify any proximity concerns. Those might be an active gravel pit, riverbank, rail line, interstate, close neighbors, active business, power line...to name a few.
8: Ask your agent to note signs of deferred maintenance or obvious title issues. Then, lean on a property inspection to help you understand the urgency of repairs/maintenance.
9: Be proactive. Update your agent on changes to your preferences and priorities. They often evolve during a Vermont house-hunting process.
10: Ask your buyer agent for lists of trusted providers for the closing process. They can Las ask the seller to provide a list of providers they have relied upon for maintaining the house, for future repairs..
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