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What are my first steps to buying a home?
?? Thinking of Buying a Home? ?? So, if you have been thinking about buying a home but not really sure what your next step is… this is for you. The realty is the market is a bit tough out there for buyer and having a solid plan can make the difference of losing out on THE house or even just save you from seeing a bunch of a homes that are not a good fit. So what is that next step? Great question. Glad you asked. It’s simple, schedule a free strategy call with me. No obligation, and not a big sales pitch.
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?? Avoid this Home Buying Mistake ?? One home buying mistake I see almost every home buyer make is easily avoided. What is it… You will never guess; it’s starting your home search before knowing if you are in the sweet spot! By sweet spot I mean, do the types of home you are looking for in your budget exist? I have an easy exercise for you. Look at all the homes in your ideal wishlist that have sold in the last 90 days. If you can pick 3-5 homes out from that list that you would have considered you know yo
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?? Thinking of Buying a Home? ?? So…. Who you work with can make or break the home buying experince. In fact here I a little known secrete, the top 1000 agents or so in Maryland sell over 70% of all the homes in MD! This is true at the county level as well. The truth is, getting a real estate license is easy to do, but truly representing clients and selling home month after month takes a lot of work. Why do you care - The reality is the top agents want to work with other top agents because they know the
Buying a home and using the wrong Realtor may cost you thousands of dollars!
?? Thinking of Buying a Home? ?? So…. Who you work with can make or break the home buying experince. In fact here I a little known secrete, the top 1000 agents or so in Maryland sell over 70% of all the homes in MD! This is true at the county level as well. The truth is, getting a real estate license is easy to do, but truly representing clients and selling home month after month takes a lot of work. Why do you care - The reality is the top agents want to work with other top agents because they know the

Hey there, if you're thinking about buying a home this year, but you're really not quite sure where to start, the whole process can be pretty overwhelming, so I'm going to give you your next best steps, because it's actually pretty easy. So here's what I got. Go ahead, click the learn more button below and set up a free strategy call with us. And look, there's no obligation to use us. We're going to listen to what you have going on and we're going to try to point you in the right direction. If it means it's a good fit to work with us, we'll say that, and we'd love to help you buy a home, but at the end of the day, we want to try to help as many people as we can get into a home because we believe in home ownership and I know that the process is stressful.

I know the market is really tough out there for buyers, and there's some smart ways to do some of this and there's some less smart, harder ways to do this. So we're here to help if that sounds like something that you are curious about or interested in. Again, no obligation. Just here to give you advice. Click the learn more button below, schedule a free strategy session with us. We'll hop on a Zoom, hear what you have going on, and see if we can get you going. All right. My name is Brendan Spear with Caprika Realty, and I wish you the best in your home buying journey.

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