FInding the Right Home

Search & Narrow the Choices

As you're browsing, save the homes that catch your attention and tell me what you like about them. Your choices help me see what you're responding to and refine the search around what actually matters to you.

Before we start scheduling showings, we'll narrow the list to the homes that have a realistic chance of working. Sometimes the listing gives us enough information to eliminate one, and sometimes a little additional research can save us a trip.

Planning Your Showing Day

Once we have a good list, I'll coordinate the appointments, review the listing information, account for gate or access instructions, and plan a route that makes sense.

Mountain roads and travel times can make showing days interesting, so a little planning ahead helps us spend more time looking at homes and less time driving back and forth across North Georgia.

Looking at the Home

Try to look beyond decorating choices and things that are fairly easy to change. Pay more attention to the location, lot, floor plan, overall layout, condition, and how the home actually works for you.

And assume someone may be listening. Security cameras and smart doorbells are common, so we'll save our opinions and negotiating thoughts until we're outside.

Comparing Homes

After several showings, the details can start blending together. I like to keep it simple by finding the home to beat.

At each new home, ask yourself which one you'd choose if you had to decide right then. Whichever one wins becomes the new home to beat.

Instead of comparing six or eight homes in your head at once, you're only comparing the home you're standing in to your current favorite.

When One Starts Rising to the Top

If one home keeps beating the others, we'll slow down and look at what you like about it, what questions you still have, and whether you're ready to consider making an offer.

If it doesn't feel like home, it isn't. We keep looking.

Next: From Offer to Closing

Once you've found the right home, the next step is putting together the offer and working through the contract toward closing day.