Hi everyone. This is your Tampa Bay Realtor Lance Mohr and in this video I
want to go over a question I got and that's what is the one thing you wish
you would have known or done different before you bought your first home and
I'm gonna go about that and I think it's gonna surprise you will help it in this
video what I ended up doing is a first-time home buyer and some of the
mistakes I made so that's what I'm gonna go over in the short video so I remember
buying my first time I was 23 years old single and engineering no kids
just one and a home for myself so I was don't snow skiing when the buddy we're
on our way back from Big Bear outside of Los Angeles I asked him to stop by a
real estate agents office we stopped by I talked to an agent pulled the agent a
little bit about what I was looking for and the agent called me up the next day
and we went out looking we started to looking at a bunch of different homes
now I thought it was a little weird because all the agent wanted to do is
just look and look and look and look and look and drive me around and I thought
wow I'm a first-time homebuyer aren't you supposed to be educating me are you
supposed to be telling me anything and he just wasn't doing that and then we
went out again and again and and then the problem was this every time we went
into home he wanted me to buy it he just thought I should buy every home and so I
finally about 2 or 3 weeks into it just said hey this just isn't working now I
don't really think you have my best interest in mind I appreciate it good
luck so I picked up the phone called someone else that agent meant me at the
first home I told him a little bit about what I was looking for it was really
much very similar such a set of circumstances I mean we went out and he
looked we looked at the first home the second third the fourth the fifth and
every single home were looking at and he's telling me how great the market is
I need to be buying every single home it was up to him I would've bought the very
first time I saw we walked in about our a poem and there was a big wire leak and
I looked up and I'm like what what do you think that's from and he said I
don't know I said don't worry I would just write a contract on the
home and so again I called him up and I said there's this lack of communication
you're not listening to me you're fired good luck so I put things off for a
little while and then I decided to use my friend who just got his real estate
license but he's part-time and I thought well at least I could trust him and and
he has real nice guy he just he didn't really know what he was doing he didn't
really do it before and you know there's a lot of issues but I ended up closing
on my home so the question I guess the answer is what do I wish I would have
known what would have I done differently and of course it is always hard to say
but I I wish I would have interviewed agents I wish I would not have looked at
all agents as being the same and I did and it was a mistake and I had a really
bad taste in my mouth for a long time about buying property which is one of
the reasons I think I do a lot of these videos because I want to help people so
this doesn't happen to you but I wish I would have looked at agents is there's
some good agents there's some bad agents there's some agents to look out for me
there's agents that won't and really spent time trying to find a good agent
trying to find an agent that's gonna look out for my best interest an agent
that has a lot of knowledge that has a lot of experience you know I ask
questions some of the questions I always tell people to ask is you know certainly
you want to know how long they've been in business did they work with more
first-time homebuyers like example tell them a little bit about what you're
looking at doing if you're looking at your first time your first home or if
you're looking at new construction or maybe you're looking at a rehab or
whatever let them know because you want to see what their experience level isn't
is in that in other words when I was looking for my first home I don't have a
lot of education I need someone to hold my hand and guide me and walk me through
the process not just assume I know everything but really give me an
education on the process and I wish it would have asked questions questions I
think are good to ask is why should I work with you that's a really good
question to ask what makes you different than the other agents and see what they
to say you could ask them that if you want to do it face to face you can if
you want to do it on an email if you want to do it over the telephone but ask
questions you don't need a whole bunch of questions you don't like you need a
list of 10 or 20 questions that you'll see online just try to find an agent
that knows what they're doing that cares about you and has a lot of experience I
hope this helps you if you know anybody looking at buying or selling a home
referring to my videos hopefully they'll help them if I could help you whatsoever
don't hesitate to give me a call I wish you the best of luck
you