With Realtor® and mortgage pre-approval in hand, it's time to begin the hunt for your home. During your buyer consultation, your agent should have asked you a series of interview questions to get to know your needs, wants, and desires. Sometimes this can be tedious however we have found it very useful in getting to know our clients. After all, chances are at the start, we're not lifelong friends but hopefully we are at the end.

Your agent has access to thousands of real estate listings via the Charlotte Multiple Listing Service (the MLS). They have the ability to insert a series of criteria into the system and allow it to generate results every a new property that matches your specs is listed.

The MLS contains bank-owned homes (foreclosures), short sales (pre-foreclcosures), HUD homes, relocation homes, estates, and more. Sites like Trulia, AOL, Yahoo, Google, and Realtor.com all gather their home sales data from local MLS sites from across the nation.

Our website has a section for buyers to search for that next home on their very own. If a home is listed with a real estate agent between Great Falls SC and Statesville NC, it's on our site. The interactive mapping feature makes it easy to spot a home in a particular geographic area or neighborhood. Signing up is simple and once registered, you can set up a search that will email you when a home matching your criteria is available on the market.

When a home you like is found, simply make contact with your agent for an appointment.

The Home Buyer Tax Credit

Schedule a Buyer Consultation

Attend a Home Buyer Workshop

Finding a Real Estate Consultant

The Mortgage Approval Process

Let the Home Search Begin!

Making an Offer

We Have a Contract. Inspection Time

The Final Week

The Closing: Home is Yours

Real Estate Terms

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