A checklist for purchasing a home in Greenville NC. What is your checklist?

With the clients I speak with at Gail Hanlon, REALTOR®, Pirate Homes and Realty - every one has a family situation and story. My clients for the most part have proven to be smart and interesting people! Its such an exciting process to help Greenville families find a home, most successful REALTORS in Greenville NC will say the same. So your decision is to find a home in Greenville, or Pitt County.

Greenville NC buying a home signYour search. The first thing I would recommend is get on an internet home website that shows homes in Greenville, NC, it just so happens my site http://www.gailhanlon.com is certainly a great one! I offer to you a website with all the properties in the area, a site with many rich photos and great information, easy and fast to read. I would check to make sure the website allows you to narrow searches down with an advanced search feature, mine does. Next, make a note about the homes in Greenville, NC you like using the “save property” feature. To list this first phase of a Greenville, NC home search, it is as follows:

Identify a real estate website such as http://www.homes-in-greenville.com

  • Search different areas that has homes in Greenville, NC of interest to you.

  • Create an account on the Gail Hanlon, REALTOR® website.

  • Save the homes or home searches in Pitt County or Greenville using your account settings.

When you see a home of interest in Greenville, Winterville or anywhere the Greenville MLS offers, simply click the Request Showing button on the page. This sends me your information and the request. The Greenville MLS has a prompt process allowing homes in Greenville, NC to be shown. I will call you confirming the time we discussed and we will go take a look. In the mean time, I provide a book which explains the entire process of a typical home purchase. This book is located at this link.

  1. The booklet “Home Buying Service” provides suggested steps to buying a home in Greenville, NC.

  2. One step is Mortgage Financing Considerations- If you are going to obtain financing the strongest negotiating position is be armed with a pre-approval when you make your offer. If you owned a home in Greenville, NC you would want your potential buyer pre approved, before you agree to sell. I can help you find a lender. 

  3. Another step - Understanding the contract we offer to the seller.

  4. I will disclose to you my negotiation strategy. Perhaps I have data suggesting the home is overpriced.

  5. After acceptance our full range of due diligence is engaged- including a home inspection, termite investigation and other issues to review.

  6. The closing process including obtaining proper homeowners insurance.

While this is an abbreviated version of the personal service I provide, all of these issues are discussed in our consultative discussions with each other. Its exciting to consider the purchase of a home in Greenville, NC, I will be with you throughout the entire process assisting you with your goal of home ownership. At Gail Hanlon, REALTOR®, Pirate Homes and Realty, you can be assured I will work with you and your family to make this the right move.