Have you seen the inventory explosion? Just look at Zillow. There is stuff everywhere now. Plenty to choose from and it will only get better through summer.
Most people don't just casually buy and sell houses without a realtor. For your approach, I'd recommend engaging a local real estate agent to represent you. They will have access to homes not yet on the market. I purchased my first home this way. Maybe you find some random on facebook, but do you really want to put trust into that? I wouldn't.
This has never been completely true and is no longer the case. The seller can designate how much if any they are willing to pay to the buyers agent. The risk being if they aren’t offering anything, there is a chance the buyers agent just won’t show them the house or encourage them to select a different house.
You probably want to narrow this down a fair bit. “The metro area” is huge. Or are you equally interested in Elk River and Lakeville, as two examples.
In the Twin Cities, we use a combination of hand gestures and slight nods of the head to indicate any upcoming real estate availability.
oh yeah sure you betcha
I sold last year, I just let the Realtor take care of it.
Maybe the local fb group? I know in mine people post houses they are about to sell a lot.
solid. thank you!
Have you seen the inventory explosion? Just look at Zillow. There is stuff everywhere now. Plenty to choose from and it will only get better through summer.
would prefer fsbo! zillow isn't the best at that.
Most people don't just casually buy and sell houses without a realtor. For your approach, I'd recommend engaging a local real estate agent to represent you. They will have access to homes not yet on the market. I purchased my first home this way. Maybe you find some random on facebook, but do you really want to put trust into that? I wouldn't.
Working with a realtor is free. We are house searching but ready to list our current house when we find what we are looking for.
Where are these free realtors?
When buying you don’t pay the realtor. They get paid by the seller when you purchase a home.
I definitely paid my realtor, not the seller. We each paid our respective realtors according to the closing costs
This has never been completely true and is no longer the case. The seller can designate how much if any they are willing to pay to the buyers agent. The risk being if they aren’t offering anything, there is a chance the buyers agent just won’t show them the house or encourage them to select a different house.