Bruce & Pam Wachter's Real Estate Tip

"The Home Inspection - What to Look For"

Navigating the Spring/Summer 2024 Real Estate Market: A Guide for Home Buyers

Understanding the Market Dynamics:

Looking at the spring and early summer real estate market in the White Mountains of Arizona, it’s important to understand the current dynamics affecting this busy season. Recently we’ve observed a limited housing ...

Bruce & Pam Wachter's Real Estate Tip

"How to Leverage Your Prequalification Letter When Buying a Home"

By definition, a contingency is a provision in a real estate contract that makes the contract null and void if a certain event were to occur. Think of it as an escape clause that can be used under defined circumstances. It's also sometimes known as a condition.

It's ...

An appraisal is a significant step in the process of buying a home or refinancing a home.

What Is An Appraisal?

An appraisal is an opinion of the estimated value of a home arrived at by an inspection of the property and comparison of recently sold homes in the area ...

You’ve found THE perfect home and you want to make the best offer to make the seller to say “yes.” But there's more to it than just the offer price!

Even if your offer price is competitive, there are still other techniques to make you and your entire ...

Before you start shopping for a home, unless you have cash to pay for your purchase, mortgage pre-approval is your #1 home buying assignment.

1. Pre-approval tells you what price range you can afford
2. Realtors and sellers will not take you seriously without it
3. Sellers and Realtors may not even let ...

Recently, we heard that several Buyers (not ours, thank goodness!), had ruined their home loan process and new home purchase by:

1."Borrowing" money from their down payment, or just spending it outright.

2. A couple of others went out and bought new furniture/cars.

3. Another charged up one ...

Buying & Selling a Home at the Same Time

Whether you decide to buy new home first, or sell your current home first, you should know your options!

Buying a new home and selling a current home at the same time can be stressful.  Selling first may make you ...

Most home buyers "ask Google" to help them find homes online.  From those results, people pick from whatever pops up in a search.  But, most people really don't know where to find homes online.  They think that the websites with the most pictures, some Q&As, is ...