Hi everyone.
This is your Tampa Bay Realtor Lance Mohr and in this video I go over why you should
not believe home builder reviews that you read and then I'm going to give you four tips
when buying a new home that's going to ensure you have a good experience.
So I know that's a pretty bold statement I just made.
Don't believe the home builder reviews that you read and when I say this I'm not saying
don't believe that bad reviews.
I'm saying don't believe any review whether it's my review, someone else's review whether
you're reading it.
Whether you're seeing the video on it.
What I mean by this is you have to take everything with a grain of salt.
Remember when people leave reviews it's because in most cases they're not happy with the company
and you're only hearing one side of the story you're not hearing both sides of the story
there could be a misunderstanding.
Let me give you an example.
A few weeks ago I had a gentleman comment on one of my review videos in our homes and
he put in his comment that he bought it when our home and there is over 80 things wrong
with it.
It is an absolute piece of junk they weren't fixing anything and he really went on and
on I'm like, oh my gosh this is horrible.
I wonder where he bought his Lennar.
So I asked him I said well where did you buy your home and he commented back and he said
he bought it at West Shore Yacht Club.
I'm like wow that's in Tampa and he said I said well what year did you buy it and he
put down 2013 and I commented back and I said Lennar didn’t build your home your home
was built by WCI in 2013 when Lennar acquired WCI in 2017.
So this guy is going out there and he actually, I looked this up he actually has YouTube videos.
He has a Twitter page or Facebook page.
He has a website everything bashing Lennar.
They didn't even build his home and I actually told him.
I said maybe if Lennar built your home you wouldn't have had 80 things wrong but I don't
appreciate you posting a comment on my video channel, on my YouTube channel blaming a builder
that did not even build your home and since I did that he actually removed his comment.
So I think with anything, you have to take things with a grain of salt.
When I do these different review videos and if you haven't seen them.
I'll post them up here.
There's a bunch of different companies Lennar, Pulte, DR Horton, MI homes, Homes by Westbay.
A lot of them I do this is from my experience.
I've been in this for over 20 years and knock on wood I don't really have a lot of bad experiences
but I sort of know the flow and how everything works.
So let me give you four tips.
If you if you're buying a new home and you want to have a good process.
I would highly recommend you do these four things.
Okay, so the first one.
You hear me talk about all the time.
Tip number one gets a home inspection.
I say this all the time you're buying a new home you're not buying a perfect home.
The home isn't built on a production line with a bunch of robots it's built by humans
and humans make errors it happens to get a home inspection.
The second thing I recommend you do is read the home warranty book.
The reason why the builders give you a home warranty book is that they want you to read
it.
They want you to understand what's covered after you close and what's not covered.
So you have the right expectations which leads me to number three.
Set the correct expectations.
A lot of people go in the new home process thinking that their home is going to be absolutely
flawless and absolutely perfect.
Sometimes people even think, hey I shouldn't have any problems along the way.
They’re monitoring the home the county or the city is doing they're doing their due
diligence and everybody's doing anything and that's just not the case.
Of course, this is why you need to get inspections on the home.
So the fourth thing you need to do is hire a real estate agent.
Hire a real estate agent that knows what they're doing because at the end of the day you're
not going to pay the agent any money and whether you use an agent or whether you don't use
an agent if the price is going to be the same because the builders paying the real estate
agent and their broker the money is all date into the price of the house.
It's in the builder's marketing budget that they did the prior year.
If you have any questions at all don't hesitate to contact me.
If you're in the Tampa Bay area I would love to help you.
If you're in another area you don't have a real estate agent to help you or need someone
I'd be more than happy.
I know agents know all the country.
I could easily set you up with a good agent that knows what they're doing.
If you like this video give me a thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe.
Well, let me know what tip you think is the best out of the four that I just gave you.
You could leave a comment below.
I wish you the best of luck.
Have a great day.`