REMI’s Announces Top 3 Reasons for Home-buying Homework

Houston, TX (PRWEB) August 03, 2013

The Real Estate Marketing Insider published this week’s edition of its Top 3 feature, offering readers a tip-sheet featuring three memorable points to help optimize a real estate or home buying experience. This week’s Top 3 feature offered prospective homebuyers the Top 3 reasons to do “homework” or “legwork” before working with a realtor on finding a home.

REMI’s Top 3 tip-sheet this week was drafted in response to a July 9 report in the Houston Chronicle that featured a Houston-based startup offering an innovative new service to connect realtors and prospective clients. The service, known as Jason’s House, works like most listing services, in that it offers visitors a list of local realtors in their market. Where Jason’s House differs however, is that it guides homebuyers to agents who will offer commission rebates to buyers who come into the office having done legwork on buying their house. The amount of work buyers have already done before they see a realtor may vary, and can range from already having identified properties to having successfully received approval for a mortgage. Based on the amount of preparation the client brings to their home-buying process, agents and offices can then submit bids with rebate offers. Thus, Jason’s House offers a win-win for both parties - clients can get a substantial discount by coming to the home-buying process prepared, and realtors can save time hunting down real estate buyer leads and find clients who are already committed to the process.

Whether a service can save homebuyers some money or not, REMI believes that doing legwork on buying a house is a good use of time and energy for any prospective homebuyer. Here are the Insider’s Top 3 reasons to do legwork before working with a realtor:

• Knowing the landscape can save time looking at properties buyers may not have an interest in. Having properties already targeted cuts down the time commitment for buying a house.
• Having financing and a price range already set is a great way to narrow down housing options and offer sensible bids on properties.
• Realtors will be better equipped to help clients who know what they want, what they can afford, and where they’d like to look. Having this work already done makes matching clients with listings easier and more rewarding for both parties.

The Real Estate Marketing Insider published this week’s edition of its Top 3 feature, advising homebuyers on the three best reasons to do legwork before seeing a realtor about a new home.

About the Real Estate Marketing Insider:
The Real Estate Marketing Insider is an online journal covering the real estate market in North America. Find more information at http://www.realestatemarketinginsider.com.

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