Is the Internet ruining your ability to find a house? Advice for Sacramento and Roseville Real Estate Buyers
By Ron Benning ABR, GRI, A-REO, CDPE
“There is too much information online, and much of it needs to be more timely and accurate!
Ron Benning
Sacramento and Roseville buyers often tell me that they have been looking for months and keep getting beaten.
These real estate buyers often state that “by the time they found out about the house and saw it, it was already gone.”
Increasingly, buyers rely on external websites like Realtor.com, Redfin, or Zillow to supplement their home search and depend less on working closely with their Realtor® and the Actual MLS (Multiple Listing Service). These other external search websites can be a good place to start early in the information-gathering stage, but make no mistake that the most accurate and timely source of information is your Realtor’s® MLS Search. Unfortunately, in today’s market, many buyers work less closely with their agents, resulting in less-than-optimal results in finding a home.
When it is time to get serious about finding a home, there is no substitute for an accurate and detailed daily update coming to you directly from the MLS (Multiple Listing Service) provided by your agent. Buyers should review this source of new properties, communicate frequently with their agents, and look at new listings quickly.
If you are just in the early stages of looking, be honest and upfront with your agent, and then they can allow you a little time and space to get up to speed.
Despite the information available, picking one good agent to represent you has never been more critical.
If buyers followed this advice, many of the buyer’s frustrations could be eliminated. If there are homes you find that are not on your MLS list, then the criteria can and should be re-evaluated. This approach has helped about two-thirds of my serious buyers find a house within the first thirty days.
It starts with getting an accurate search for the client, and then it is essential that the client reviews all new listings daily and calls, texts, or emails their agent to discuss properties they want to see immediately.
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