Hello everyone. This is your Tampa Bay Realtor Lance Moore and in this video
I'm goning go over three critical tips when buying a new home that you need to
know about
now this video is a little bit different than a lot of my other new home videos
because these are three things that you probably have never thought about if
you're looking at buying a brand new home from a builder whether it's in
Tampa or whether it's somewhere else so tip number one is to take pictures I
know to a lot of people if you walk into a builder you sign everything then you
go into the design center you start picking out everything you pick your
lighting fixtures your flooring your countertops your cabinet you pretty much
pick everything out but what you really need to be doing is taking pictures of
everything I bring this up because several years ago I had a client run
into a situation she picked everything correctly but a month before her home
was being closed all the stuff in the home when I say fixtures in her case it
was just stuff like all the lights and though they were all the wrong lights so
she's been trying to deal with the sales manager for three weeks I told her to
give me a call let me handle it but she didn't do that so she called me a week
before it was gonna close I talked to the sales manager we got everything
squared away and they replaced all the light fixtures in the whole home so I
have always said from years ago and I always tell everybody take pictures so
when you go in there and you pick out a certain countertop take a picture of it
if you pick out Whiting's take a picture of it save it all in your phone save it
all in your computer but make sure you take pictures of everything
the second thing is what's important to you know I know when you walk into a
builder and you're looking to buying a new home there certain things are
important to you and certain things that aren't really important to you so I got
a call a few weeks ago from one of my clients and the Builder ended up making
changes and if you read the builders contract they could do this stuff so one
of the changes was in the laundry room they took the air handler and they
pushed it back a little bit and it ate up my clients closet space wasn't a real
big deal to her but the other thing they did is they changed the door in the
master bathroom that opens up and it was just a real odd design we ended up
the Builder everything got squared away everything's going to be changed but
stuff happens when you're going down the line so you really need to figure out
what's important to you don't worry about what you're really three order
things don't worry about what your builder rep things just worry what is
important to you and make sure those things are brought up initially with the
construction manager of the home when you do me now some builders don't always
have construction managers though most of them do so make sure the sales rep
knows that as well now the last one number three may seem a little important
maybe it doesn't seem a little important but you have to realize when you're
buying a home and when I say when you're buying home when most people buy homes
they buy through big huge companies that might do thousands and thousands if not
hundreds of homes a year and it can be a little difficult so the third thing you
need to do is you need to make sure everything's in writing example if the
Builder tells you oh we're going to put crown molding in the whatever in the
dining room and in the kitchen then make sure that that's in writing if they say
we're gonna give you five thousand dollars or twenty thousand dollars make
sure that's in writing you'll always want to make sure everything is in
writing because once it's get being sent to the corporate office and whoever
signing it is signing it it's going to be really hard to go back and change
something if it was not in writing soy just make sure it's in writing go over
everything with the sales rep with your reorder and make sure it's how you think
it's going to be and if you have any questions at all don't hesitate to ask
people you're never gonna get hurt by asking ask your Realtor ask the sales
rep ask the construction manager ask as many people as you can if you have any
questions whatsoever about buying a brand new home or a pre-owned home don't
hesitate to give me a call I'm here to help you I hope you guys have a
wonderful day and thanks again for watching all my YouTube videos
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