If you're buying
Most first-time buyers I meet are worried they'll look uninformed. Here's the whole sequence so you don't have to be.
Thirty minutes. What you're trying to do, what you're worried about, what your timeline actually looks like. No pressure to sign anything, and no obligation on either side.
Not a rough guess from a website. An actual pre-approval tells you your ceiling, your monthly payment, and what closing costs will run. Everything after this depends on it.
Fairfax is big and the school pyramids don't follow the town lines. We figure out which areas fit your number and your commute before we spend Saturdays looking at houses.
The job early on is elimination, not falling in love. I'll tell you what's wrong with a house as readily as what's right, including the things that cost money later.
Price is one of maybe six things that decide whether an offer wins. Terms, timelines and contingencies do the rest. This is the part I'm certified in and the part that earns my side of it.
Inspection, appraisal, financing, walkthrough, settlement. Roughly thirty days of deadlines where the main risk is somebody dropping a ball. Coming out of IT, this is the part I'm built for.
Not ready to talk yet?
Zillow and Redfin pull from the MLS on a delay and their filters are blunt. I can set criteria they can't: a specific school pyramid, particular streets, an HOA fee ceiling, townhouse but not backing to a main road. And I see status changes when they happen.
Tell me what you're hunting for and I'll set it up by hand. No call required, and you can tell me to stop any time.
Free, no email required
Sixteen pages on what actually happens and in what order. Contingencies, what things cost, how appraisals work, what to ask for after an inspection, and the questions people are embarrassed to ask. Download it and read it on your own time.
Download the guide (PDF)Rather just talk it through?
