Volume 1, Number 1

Inside this issue...

• Outstanding, Upgraded Anacapa Home In Goleta
  

• The Best Time To See A Home

• What's A Home Worth
  

Dear [Name],

Buying a new home is a mixed experience. You'll have meetings with mortgage brokers, nail-biting negotiations with sellers, and constant worries about whether you'll ever find the home of your dreams.

But you'll also have the incredible thrill of seeing a house or apartment you love and the excitement that comes wit starting a brand new -- and important -- chapter in your life. There are no feelings like these in the world, and they more than make up for all of the challenges involved in buying a home.

At [insert company name], we do everything we can to bring you all of the joy of changing homes -- and we'll guide you safely through the concerns too.

Two of the biggest concerns every homebuyer faces are whether they'll be happy in the home they've bought... and whether they've got the best deal to help them afford it. In this newsletter, we're going to look at both those topics and explain how you can increase the odds that you'll love both the home you buy -- and the price you paid for it.

Moving home is a wonderful moment in your life. To make it easier and to give the rest of your life a great start, give us a call at [insert
phone number.]

[Your Name]
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 Outstanding, Upgraded Anacapa Home In Goleta

THE BEST TIME TO SEE A HOME

Buy a pair of jeans and you can take all the time in the world. You can stop by the store, check out the competition, compare prices and
of course, you can try them on.

And it doesn't matter when you do it. You can visit the store any time you like as often as you like just to pull on the pants and see how they feel. By the time you come to part with the cash, you can be 100 percent certain that your $30 or $50 was well spent.

If only you could feel that confident when you part with $300,000 -- or $500,000.

Buying a new home is the biggest expenditure you'll ever make. You want to be certain that you won't regret it. Often though, you'll be basing your desire to buy on a "feeling" the property gives you when you view it. Sure, you'll have the appraiser's report which will tell you the house is well built and won't fall down. But that just lets you know it's a good house, not a good home. That sense of home -- that leap in your belly that tells you that this one is it -- is something that you can only confirm when you live in a place.

The visits give you a glimpse of that feeling. It's important to be sure that you make the best use of those visits.

Visit by day... and night.
If all your visits have been after work, then make sure you see the property at least once during the day. You want to get a sense of noise and light, what the house feels like when it's "active" and "at rest."

Make at least one weekend visit.
The weekend will be the time you'll be home the most. Can you sit in the yard and keep your privacy? Are kids playing in the street? Can you hear the neighbor's television? It's the small things you'll notice most after you move in.

Make your visits long.
Try to spend as much time in the property as you can. The more time you spend in the house before you sign, the better you'll know it -- and know whether it's for you.

Make the most of the time you spend in a potential home and you'll find it much easier to decide to buy.

WHAT'S A HOME WORTH? 

There are few areas in life about which so little is known for certain
-- and yet so much is believed to be true -- than real estate prices. That's hardly surprising. It's reassuring to believe that while you're sitting in a restaurant or lying on the beach, the value of your home is rising happily by itself, increasing your net worth and giving you the wealth to pay for your leisure.

A quick glance at the rate of house price rises nationwide reinforces the impression. Check out the figures and you'll find an average national price rise of almost 16 percent. In terms of an investment, that's a great rate of return. Homeowners look at their credit card bills... then remember that figure and breathe a sigh of relief.

But national real estate figures hide local price changes and these depend on a range of different factors from local development plans to traffic rates on a nearby highway. And even locally-based figures can be deceptive and give a false sense of financial security.

Ultimately, there is no scientific formula to assessing the "true value" of a property; a house is only ever worth what someone is prepared to pay for it at that particular moment. It is clear however that every experienced real estate agent knows when a seller has an unrealistic view of the value of their home. And they also know when a buyer is grabbing a bargain.

They can calculate how much a four-bedroom house in a particular area
should be worth but that estimate can only ever be historical -- it's based on a price that has been reached by a similar property in a similar location.

If something has happened that might affect house prices since the time that similar property was sold, the agent -- and the seller -- can only try to estimate the effects on the next house to be sold. But they won't be sure until after the next sale.

For buyers, property prices are relatively easy to assess; a buyer can only offer as much as he or she can afford. For sellers though, if a property has been sitting on the market for a while, it's a good sign that prices haven't risen as fast they'd like to think.

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