BUYING OR SELLING REAL ESTATE DELAWARE TERRI FAVATA

Have you ever felt like you were on a wild goose chase looking for a home?

I have heard countless stories within my company, from other agents, from friends and families, where people get so discouraged at looking at all the wrong houses that they just want to give up looking all together! Well thats no way to find your dreanm home or sell a home!!!!

• What can we as Realtors do to make this process easier for us, as well as easier for the buyers?

Its about quality not quantity. Whether you are a buyer yourself or a Realtor, look at houses that you or your clients are going to be interested in. Just because it is in the right price range, area, or neighborhood does not automatically make it the home for you. It may only have 2 bedrooms and you need 3, or one bathroom and you need 2. Make sure you look into the home before you go and look at it.

Find out what you want. If you are a buyer, make a list of things that you have to have, things you want, and things you could go without. That way you can give them to your Realtor and they will know what to look for when they are searching for houses for you. This will narrow down the search for them, and will also make things easier for you!

Give yourself time. A lot of Realtors are willing to give their clients the time they need to look at the homes in their area, but they feel like their clients want to see as much as they can within a short amount of time. Seeing so many houses is going to get your head all rattled and you are going to feel overwhelmed by the big decision you are going to have to make.

Write it down. I tell a lot of my buyers to right down what they liked and didnt like about each house they go to see. Once we are done looking, I have them sit down and weigh the pros and cons. Seeing it, instead of just hearing it, makes it easier to make an informed decision!

Don't settle for Less. Now this could be taken a few different ways, but this is what I mean by this. Dont settle for a home you only semi-like just because you don't want to look for anymore. Most people stay in their homes for quite a long time and you dont want to get into something you don't really want.

Don't get caught up on the small details. I hear so many people say "I love this home, but I just can not stand the wallpaper, the paint, or the carpet. Those are small details. Maybe you wont be able to change the colors right away, but down the road you will be able to do that. Recarpeting is much easier to do than buying a home where you have to rebuild a garage because it only had one, but the room colors were right.

Hopefully this helps everyone! I know what its like to be caught up showing your clients a million homes and they dont like ANY of them. Know your clients, and what exactly they are looking for.

Thanks,

Terri Favata

What type of living can you expect in Mid to Southern Delaware?

Ask yourself this:

Do you wanna be close enough to everything a city offers, but not too close? If thats what you have in mind, then Mid to Southern Delaware is probably a place you should flag.

Its close enough to a few cities like, Wilmington, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Annapolis, as well as Washington DC. But its not too close that you spend more time in your car stuck in traffic than you do with family at home =]. Thats always a plus to me anyway!

Delaware has what I would like to call, four types of living. Town living, country living, beach living, and city living (for Wilmington, Newark area only). What type of living would you like to be in?

Town living is pretty much standard to most people. You know your close enough to Walmart if you need something quick. Everything is right there for you within a matter of say...five minutes (give or take). This would include neighborhoods in town, as well as homes outside of neighborhoods. Not crowded but enough people around for your kids to have friends, people around if you need help, and friends for the new neighbors to make.

Country living (thats the living I do) is growing more and more popular by the second. This is when you live outside of town, your still fairly close in some areas, but you can go to extreme measures and be twenty to thirty minutes from anything. Less extreme would be ten to fifteen minutes. You could still live in a neighborhood, or out of neighborhood. You may have close neighbors, and you may not. You may own over a acre, a couple acres, or just under an acre. It really all depends on where you are and what you are looking at. This area is normally not crowded at all. Your kids may or may not have friends close enough to play with everyday, but they are only a short drive away. You may not have anyone close enough if you need help, but you may, it depends on how close those neighbors are!

Now beach living! Thats my kind of living, even if I never get to experience it. You live relatively close to the beach areas. You may be able to see the beach, you may be able to walk to it, or you may still have to drive. Either case, I am sure you can at least smell the beach in the summer time. They say the living is easy at the beach, but in the summer time here to beaches are crowded and traffic...well...stinks. But its worth it if you want to be close to all of nice places to eat, good shopping deals (tanger outlets), and much much more. This area is going to be more crowded in the summer of course. But if you live in an area where you dont see many tourists than your not going to be too hurt by the change of seasons. Depending on where you live your kids may or not have companions close by, but again probably not too far away either. Lots of adults live in this area so you should not have a problem making friends (if you want them! [= )

City living is living in the city. Apartments, condos, those kinds of things. You may have a yard, you may not. Parking garages, parking on the street, if your lucky you may have a driveway. Everything is at your fingertips, you can probably walk to some places if you want. Things are always busier in the city!

Now with that said. Mid to Southern Delaware obviously is home to only three types of living, if any of those fit you, then read on!

No matter which three areas you choose to live in, the things you can find to do are going to be about the same. The cities which are probably no more than one to two hours away offer things like aquariums, zoos, concerts, shows, water parks, Theme parks, shopping, baseball games, basketball games and football games.

So your close, but not too close as I like to say. Its not something you would have to do everyday, but if you wanted to, its reachable.

The beach area offers shopping, water parks, THE BEACH, boardwalk life, put put golf, surf lessons, and things of that nature. This is also only about half hour to an hour from Mid Delaware, say the Dover area.

So yeah, thats pretty much all there is to it! If you want to check out home in Kent or Sussex County Delaware, you know what to do!