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Could you please recommend me expirienced real estate agent who works with home buyers and is familiar with Nortwest Raleigh area and with Cary as well, who is familiar with schools as well.
Could you please recommend me expirienced real estate agent who works with home buyers and is familiar with Nortwest Raleigh area and with Cary as well, who is familiar with schools as well.
Thanks a lot!
Hi OP - I thought that you are going the no real estate agent route? Mike's links are a start. You can do a search and you'll find that North West Raleigh and Cary have excellent schools although West Cary schools are considered to be better. As a future parent, I would rather stay in a schooling area where the school actually nurtures my child into a well-rounded human being instead of competitive parenting leading to better "academic" scores
Hi OP - I thought that you are going the no real estate agent route? Mike's links are a start. You can do a search and you'll find that North West Raleigh and Cary have excellent schools although West Cary schools are considered to be better. As a future parent, I would rather stay in a schooling area where the school actually nurtures my child into a well-rounded human being instead of competitive parenting leading to better "academic" scores
We are doing the no real estate agent route only if we buy new construction and only if there will be benefit for the end price of the home. We like the Leesville area a lot and our work commute is to Raleigh downtown, so West Cary might be too far away. If we decide to look at older homes we are going to need real estate agent. Older homes have bigger lots and might be further from the airport. Thank you again!
We are doing the no real estate agent route only if we buy new construction and only if there will be benefit for the end price of the home. We like the Leesville area a lot and our work commute is to Raleigh downtown, so West Cary might be too far away. If we decide to look at older homes we are going to need real estate agent. Older homes have bigger lots and might be further from the airport. Thank you again!
If you aren't familiar with buying homes here you need an agent. They won't cost you anything as a new construction buyer. They'll save you money if you get a good one, though.
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We are doing the no real estate agent route only if we buy new construction and only if there will be benefit for the end price of the home. We like the Leesville area a lot and our work commute is to Raleigh downtown, so West Cary might be too far away. If we decide to look at older homes we are going to need real estate agent. Older homes have bigger lots and might be further from the airport. Thank you again!
Do a deep dive on the facts.
Remember, in just about 20 minutes, a real estate agent showed you the RDU ARCGIS mapping for air traffic noise, told you the distance from the runway to a road, and told you about the upcoming runway renovation that will deliver more traffic.
You won't get that detail from a builder's agent, who is there only to close the sale and max out profitability for the builder.
Sometimes buyers agents even have more input on builders and the process including build quality, builder tendencies, and typical builder contract foibles beyond commission.
For example, did you know that builders don't give you an appraisal contingency?
Not using a buyer agent makes zero sense regardless of new construction or not.
Schools are undergoing a major reassignment cycle. If any agent tells you they know which schools are going to go with what house, or that "this area probably won't ever get reassigned", you've got a lemon. Areas that have been with the same schools for 20+ years are getting reassigned.
The west side of Cary to downtown Raleigh is not going to be a terrible commute. I would probably stay east of Cary Parkway to mitigate the worst of the traffic. Still Cary.
We are doing the no real estate agent route only if we buy new construction and only if there will be benefit for the end price of the home. We like the Leesville area a lot and our work commute is to Raleigh downtown, so West Cary might be too far away. If we decide to look at older homes we are going to need real estate agent. Older homes have bigger lots and might be further from the airport. Thank you again!
Sigh... You wont save anything unless you buy the land and hire your own builder. In the areas you want I dont see that happening so you might as well find an agent to work with.
The builder's agent works for the builder. They have two goals: to sell as many houses as possible and to sell those houses at the highest price possible. There's NOTHING wrong with that at all. But you, the buyer, are not gaining any benefit from their goals. You need your own agent to represent YOU and YOUR goals.
P.S. when we purchased new construction, our realtor confirmed every damn thing the builder's agent told us by email. Good thing - $18,000 of "included upgrades" disappeared at the reconstruction meeting. Those email confirmations made them magically reappear in less than 24 hours.
A good real estate agent is like a good lawyer. Few and far between and we ALL hate paying for them. Both provide expertise and knowledge that we could handle ourselves. But the end result usually isn't as positive as the expert would have delivered.
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Sometimes buyers agents even have more input on builders and the process including build quality, builder tendencies, and typical builder contract foibles beyond commission.
