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Congratulations, you’ve taken the first step in deciding to buy a home! The home buying process is complex, takes time and it’s easy to get off track. Staying true to your needs and priorities is essential in finding the best home for you and your family.
We are here to help make this experience as enjoyable and stress-free as possible. Our goal is to help you find a home you love, with all of your needs and as many of your wants as possible, and at a price you are comfortable with.
We look forward to working with you and being apart of your journey! Remember, it’s super easy to contact us and we’re always here to help!
If you’re in the market to purchase a property, you’ll likely need to sell yours at some point. Make sure to visit our Sellers Guide for more information about what that process looks like.
Start reading websites, newspapers, and magazines
that have real estate listings. Make note of particular homes you are interested in and see how long they stay on the market.
Lenders generally recommend that people look for homes that cost no more than three to five times their annual income if the buyers plan to make a 20% down payment.
Before you start looking for a home, you will need to know how much you can actually spend.
Once you and the seller have reached an agreement on the price, the house will go into escrow, which is the period of time it takes to complete the remaining steps of the buying process.
Typically, purchase offers are contingent on a home inspection of the property to check for signs of structural damage or things that may need fixing.
Once an offer has been made, we will collectively review all terms and Lenders have a wide range of competitively priced loan programs and a reputation for exceptional customer service. You will have many questions
when you are purchasing a home, and having one of our experienced mortgage specialists assist you can make the process much easier.
Lenders will arrange for an appraiser to provide an independent estimate of the value of the house you are buying. The appraiser is a member of a third party company that is not directly associated with the lender.
There is a lot of paperwork involved in buying a house. Your lender will arrange for a title company to handle all of the paperwork and make sure
that the seller is the rightful owner of the house you are buying.
At closing, you will sign all of the paperwork required to complete the purchase, including your loan documents.
This one is really important and sometimes not everyone is as planned as they would like to be. The best thing to do is to determine how much you think you want to spend and do your best to put away a monthly amount that you can use towards your down payment. There are so many great tools such as budget calculators that will help.
Having a good credit score puts you in a position to attract the best deal on your home loan. So it’s a good idea to obtain a copy of your credit report before starting the home buying process. You will see what your credit profile looks like to potential lenders and can then take steps to improve your credit score if necessary.
Mortgage calculators are great tools for helping you understand how much home you can afford. They are very easy to use and can show you how much your monthly mortgage payment would be under different home price, down payment and interest rate scenarios.
The interest rate will be one of the biggest factors in determining the cost of your mortgage. Interest rates for mortgages change almost every day and it is helpful to know which way they are heading.
Many real estate agents want you to be pre-qualified for a loan before they will start to work with you. The mortgage pre-qualification process is fairly simple, usually just requiring some financial information such as your income and the amount of savings and investments you have. Once you are pre-qualified, you will have a better sense of how much you can borrow and the price range of the homes you can afford.
We had one of the best experiences with our real estate need with Babar . He was really helpfully in finding us our desired location for our store during our last minute commercial lease . He worked really hard to show us all potential option as per our needs and that was really helpful in making our desired choice . Thank you so much Babar for all help !!
Babar is an amazing realtor! He helped us find a house in this hot market and at a great price. He was very responsive and answered all our questions and provided great advice throughout. I would definitely recommend him to anybody.
My experience with Babar Muhammad was truly a 5/5 experience. He was incredibly accommodating with my very busy and irregular schedule. Just a quick text or phone call away and there for you every step of the way. He takes the stress out of the process of purchasing a home with his level of knowledge and expertise in the industry. A personable man too. Very easy to get along with.
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